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Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China
by Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China
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Polarizing images of authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness compromise analyses of the Chinese state. Still, such images produce effects beyond academia when they inform performances of the boundaries between state and non-state. This book shows how performative boundary work leads to contrasting judgements that decide about support and access to resources. In an ecological village in Sichuan, citizen participation in food networks and bureaucracy signaled Western liberalism, Maoism or traditional rural culture for different audiences. Attention to the multiplicity of performed state boundaries helps China studies and political anthropology to understand such diverging classifications - and how they sometimes co-exist without causing tensions.
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- Berghahn Books Brand
- Sep 1, 2024 Pub Date:
- 9781805396512 ISBN-13:
- 180539651X ISBN-10:
- English Language
- 9 in * 0.63 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 1 lb Weight:
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