Outsourcing repression : everyday state power in contemporary China / Lynette H. Ong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ong, Lynette H., author.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Oxford scholarship online.

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization.

Political persecution--China.

Political persecution.

China--Politics and government--2002-.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Bulldozers, violent thugs, and nonviolent brokers

The theory : state power, repression, and implications for development

Outsourcing violence : everyday repression via thugs-for-hire

Case studies : thugs-for-hire, repression, and mobilization

Networks of state infrastructural power : brokerage, state penetration, and mobilization

Brokers in harmonious demolition : mass mobilizers, mediators, and huangniu

Comparative context : South Korea and India.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-762879-6

0-19-762880-X

0-19-762878-8