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Zusatztext The book makes significant contributions to our understanding of power struggles in China's forced demolition and land-grabbing and the nature of everyday state power. It will be of interest to readers from political science, sociology, criminology, urban studies and China studies. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext In Outsourcing Repression, Lynette H. Ong tells the story of how the Chinese state engages nonstate actors--from violent street gangsters to nonviolent grassroots brokers. Drawing from a decade of ethnographic research from 2011 to 2019, a unique and original event dataset, and a collection of government regulations, Ong shows how the state uses these nonstate actors to coerce and mobilize the masses, while reducing resistance. Theorizing a counterintuitive form of state repression, she uses China's urbanization scheme to examine how authoritarian states can successfully enlist a small segment of society to gain acquiescence from the larger segments of society. Zusammenfassung 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. 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 ...
