Outsourcing Repression

Everyday State Power in Contemporary China
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-19-762876-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 241 mm x 159 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

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A compelling examination of China's engagement of nonstate actors as a counterintuitive solution to coerce citizens while minimizing backlash against the state.

How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In Outsourcing Repression, Lynette H. Ong examines how the Chinese state engages nonstate actors, from violent street gangsters to nonviolent grassroots brokers, to coerce and mobilize the masses for state pursuits, while reducing costs and minimizing resistance. She draws on ethnographic research conducted annually from 2011 to 2019--the years from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping, a unique and original event dataset, and a collection of government regulations in a study of everyday land grabs and housing demolition in China. Theorizing a counterintuitive form of repression that reduces resistance and backlash, Ong invites the reader to reimagine the new ground state power credibly occupies. Everyday state power is quotidian power acquired through society by penetrating nonstate territories and mobilizing the masses within. Ong uses China's urbanization scheme as a window of observation to explain how the arguments can be generalized to other country contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ong, Lynette H.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- List of Figures

- List of Tables

- Preface

- Acknowledgments

- Chapter 1: Bulldozers, Violent Thugs, and Nonviolent Brokers

- Chapter 2: The Theory: State Power, Repression, and Implications for Development

- Chapter 3: Outsourcing Violence: Everyday Repression via Thugs-for-Hire

- Chapter 4: Case Studies: Thugs-for-Hire, Repression, and Mobilization

- Chapter 5: Networks of State Infrastructural Power: Brokerage, State Penetration, and Mobilization

- Chapter 6: Brokers in Harmonious Demolition: Mass Mobilizers, Mediators, and Huangniu

- Chapter 7: Comparative Context: South Korea and India

- Chapter 8: Conclusion

- Appendices

- Appendix A: Content Analysis of Government Regulations

- Appendix B: List of Interviewees

- Appendix C: Media-Sourced Event Dataset

- Appendix D: Additional Tables and Graphs for Chapter 3

- Notes

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Lynette H. Ong is an associate professor of political science at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Prosper or Perish: Credit and Fiscal Systems in Rural China (2012). Her work has been published in Comparative Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Foreign Affairs, and other outlets.