Mobilizing Without the Masses - Control and Contention in China

How do weak activists organize under repression? This book theorizes a dynamic of contention called mobilizing without the masses.

List of contents

1. Introduction: organizing under duress; Part I. Technologies of Control: 2. Labor organizations in China; 3. Fragmented control; 4. Competitive control; Part II. Coaching Contention: 5. Micro-collective action; 6. Atomized action; 7. Discursive action 8. A political compromise? Appendix: political ethnography; Bibliography.

About the author

Diana Fu is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto and an affiliate of the Munk School of Global Affairs Asian Institute. She holds a D.Phil. in Politics and an M.Phil. in Development Studies with distinction from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She was previously a Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, California and a Predoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She teaches contentious politics, Chinese politics, and development studies.

Summary

When it is illegal for organizations to rally people to take to the streets, what do they do? This book theorizes a new pathway of civil society mobilization in contemporary China - mobilizing without the masses. It is for scholars, students, policymakers, NGO practitioners, and the educated reader.

Product details

• Authors: Diana Fu, Diana (University of Toronto) Fu
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781108420549
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42054-9
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio; Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General