Practicing Citizenship in Contemporary China

ISBN-13: 9780367587055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 128 str.

Sophia Woodman; Zhonghua Guo

Opis

This book considers how citizenship is practiced in China today: through case studies of internal migrant workers, contentious homeowners, ethnic minority young people, sex workers, and the work of NGOs. It focuses on three areas of tension apparent in these practices: sedentarism/mobility, authoritarianism/participation, and collectivity/indivi

Spis treści

Introduction - Introduction: practicing citizenship in contemporary China  1. Legitimating exclusion and inclusion: ‘culture’, education and entitlement to local urban citizenship in Tianjin and Lanzhou  2. Differentiating citizenship in urban China: a case study of Dongguan city  3. Citizenship education as NGO intervention: turning migrant children in Shanghai into ‘new citizens’  4. Practicing democratic citizenship in an authoritarian state: grassroots self-governance in urban China  5. Learning to be safe citizens: state-run boarding schools and the dynamics of Tibetan identity  6. Eating the rice bowl of youth: xiaojies’ everyday self-practices as doing citizenship from the margins

O autorze

Sophia Woodman is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research interests include citizenship, human rights and social movements in contemporary China; political sociology and social movements, particularly transnational movements; constitutionalism, law, politics and governance in modern China and beyond; and gender and the state.

Zhonghua Guo is a Professor of Politics at the School of Government at Sun Yat-Sen University, China, and a Research Fellow at the Sun Yat-Sen Chinese Public Management Research Center, China. His research interests include political science theory and Chinese government and politics.