圖書標籤: 人類學 海外中國研究 poverty Anthropology 當代中國 城市研究 城市史 趙文英
发表于2024-11-24
The Specter of "the People" pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
一下午看完,對我有用的也就前兩章,後麵沒用,而且亂。
評分看得齣作者的田野做得特彆努力,特彆辛苦,最後居然是有些暈頭轉嚮,在經驗材料裏迷瞭路,所以給齣瞭一個又一個特彆強但又存疑的解釋邏輯。不過既然大學齣版社都能齣,那就都能坦然接受吧。
評分因為太關心這個議題,所以細細讀瞭開頭就飛快地囫圇看完,以後需要再來重溫。正如其他評論者所指齣的,這本書的缺陷當然很明顯。但正因為作者所寫作的綫索並非是宏大的理論問題,而是具體而微的幾個居民的生命史,因此纔是這種所謂“散亂”的真實原因。從寫作的角度來說,我相信隻能迴應作者真正關切問題的,絕非任何理論,而恰是這三個動人的生命史的案例。被preface和intro的很多心思打動瞭,我相信真正的研究所應該迴應的,恰是此種問題。
評分看得齣作者的田野做得特彆努力,特彆辛苦,最後居然是有些暈頭轉嚮,在經驗材料裏迷瞭路,所以給齣瞭一個又一個特彆強但又存疑的解釋邏輯。不過既然大學齣版社都能齣,那就都能坦然接受吧。
評分有關東北的貧睏問題,主角是下崗工人、農村移民、居委會大媽和街道乾部。動人故事很多,but how is it different from a journalist book like 《看見》? 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?
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...
評分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...
評分唉,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...
評分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...
評分唉,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...
The Specter of "the People" pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024