图书标签: 人类学 海外中国研究 poverty Anthropology 当代中国 城市研究 城市史 赵文英
发表于2024-11-22
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Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan "Serve the People" has been a central point of moral and political orientation. Yet several decades of market-based reforms have resulted in high urban unemployment, transforming the proletariat vanguard into a new urban poor. How do unemployed workers come to terms with their split status, economically marginalized but still rhetorically central to the way China claims to understand itself? How does a state dedicated to serving "the people" manage the poverty of its citizens? Mun Young Cho addresses these questions in a book based on more than two years of fieldwork in a decaying residential area of Harbin in the northeast province of Heilongjiang.
Cho analyzes the different experiences of poverty among laid-off urban workers and recent rural-to-urban migrants, two groups that share a common economic duress in China's Rustbelt cities but who rarely unite as one class owed protection by the state. Impoverished workers, she shows, seek protection and recognition by making claims about “the people” and what they deserve. They redeploy the very language that the party-state had once used to venerate them, although their claim often contradicts government directives regarding how “the people” should be reborn as self-managing subjects. The slogan “serve the people” is no longer a promise of the party-state but rather a demand made by the unemployed and the poor.
Mun Young Cho is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Yonsei University, Seoul.
Useless. 这人逻辑思维不清晰!经常重复!跳跃!闪回!学术文出现了蒙太奇的手法!
评分一下午看完,对我有用的也就前两章,后面没用,而且乱。
评分因为太关心这个议题,所以细细读了开头就飞快地囫囵看完,以后需要再来重温。正如其他评论者所指出的,这本书的缺陷当然很明显。但正因为作者所写作的线索并非是宏大的理论问题,而是具体而微的几个居民的生命史,因此才是这种所谓“散乱”的真实原因。从写作的角度来说,我相信只能回应作者真正关切问题的,绝非任何理论,而恰是这三个动人的生命史的案例。被preface和intro的很多心思打动了,我相信真正的研究所应该回应的,恰是此种问题。
评分有关东北的贫困问题,主角是下岗工人、农村移民、居委会大妈和街道干部。动人故事很多,but how is it different from a journalist book like 《看见》? what's the use of theory and is she using them unproblematically? Is she too obsessed with the notion of "the people" as an ideological categorization but let go of the real crucial causes and effects of urban poverty?
评分看得出作者的田野做得特别努力,特别辛苦,最后居然是有些晕头转向,在经验材料里迷了路,所以给出了一个又一个特别强但又存疑的解释逻辑。不过既然大学出版社都能出,那就都能坦然接受吧。
1. 正如作者所说,城市贫困 在中国是一个很敏感的事情。作为一名外国研究人员,作者不得不调整了两个观测地点,最终选择了哈尔滨的哈东区。钦佩作者的勇气,也赞叹国外的研究资助:国内哪有这样的学校,让你空转2年,才找到自己的研究对象?! 2. 作者完整地记录了他调研的准备...
评分1. 正如作者所说,城市贫困 在中国是一个很敏感的事情。作为一名外国研究人员,作者不得不调整了两个观测地点,最终选择了哈尔滨的哈东区。钦佩作者的勇气,也赞叹国外的研究资助:国内哪有这样的学校,让你空转2年,才找到自己的研究对象?! 2. 作者完整地记录了他调研的准备...
评分唉,其实是想打二星了,基本上啊,材料组织上loosely organized, 比如the will to survive一章实在跟spector of people which is the central thread throughout the book没什么关系啊;理论运用上scatterly referenced,引了各种理论著作(甚至还有agamben的bare life),但是...
评分1. 正如作者所说,城市贫困 在中国是一个很敏感的事情。作为一名外国研究人员,作者不得不调整了两个观测地点,最终选择了哈尔滨的哈东区。钦佩作者的勇气,也赞叹国外的研究资助:国内哪有这样的学校,让你空转2年,才找到自己的研究对象?! 2. 作者完整地记录了他调研的准备...
评分1. 正如作者所说,城市贫困 在中国是一个很敏感的事情。作为一名外国研究人员,作者不得不调整了两个观测地点,最终选择了哈尔滨的哈东区。钦佩作者的勇气,也赞叹国外的研究资助:国内哪有这样的学校,让你空转2年,才找到自己的研究对象?! 2. 作者完整地记录了他调研的准备...
The Specter of "the People" pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024