Outsourcing Repression

Everyday State Power in Contemporary China

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvLynette H. Ong

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-07-11
Mått150 x 224 x 20 mm
Vikt409 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor288
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780197628775
UtmärkelserCo-winner, 2023 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Political Sociology, American Sociological Association Winner, 2023 Best Book Award, Human Rights Section, International Studies Association Winner, 2023 Gordon Hirabayashi Human Rights Best Book Award, American Sociological Association Shortlisted, 2023 Gregory Luebbert Award, American Political Science Association

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List of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Bulldozers, Violent Thugs, and Nonviolent Brokers Chapter 2: The Theory: State Power, Repression, and Implications for DevelopmentChapter 3: Outsourcing Violence: Everyday Repression via Thugs-for-HireChapter 4: Case Studies: Thugs-for-Hire, Repression, and MobilizationChapter 5: Networks of State Infrastructural Power: Brokerage, State Penetration, and MobilizationChapter 6: Brokers in Harmonious Demolition: Mass Mobilizers, Mediators, and HuangniuChapter 7: Comparative Context: South Korea and IndiaChapter 8: ConclusionAppendicesAppendix A: Content Analysis of Government RegulationsAppendix B: List of IntervieweesAppendix C: Media-Sourced Event DatasetAppendix D: Additional Tables & Graphs for Chapter 3NotesBibliography

A granular, documented, and persuasive analysis of how authoritarian control is maintained on a quotidian basis in Xi's China. Lest we ever doubt that all authoritarian regimes operate 'outside' even their own hand-tailored, legal order, this fine study closes the case. A discerning examination of the atomization, perversion, and cooptation of what might otherwise be a mobilized, autonomous civil society.

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