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Rightful Resistance in Rural China (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.56330951
EAN: 9780521678520
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0521678528
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 200
Publication Date: February 13, 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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How can the poor and weak 'work' a political system to their advantage? Drawing mainly on interviews and surveys in rural China, Kevin O'Brien and Lianjiang Li show that popular action often hinges on locating and exploiting divisions within the state. Otherwise powerless people use the rhetoric and commitments of the central government to try to fight misconduct by local officials, open up clogged channels of participation, and push back the frontiers of the permissible. This 'rightful resistance' has far-reaching implications for our understanding of contentious politics. As O'Brien and Li explore the origins, dynamics, and consequences of rightful resistance, they highlight similarities between collective action in places as varied as China, the former East Germany, and the United States, while suggesting how Chinese experiences speak to issues such as opportunities to protest, claims radicalization, tactical innovation, and the outcomes of contention.
Introduces the concept of rightful resistance and explains how it operates in rural China. Focusing on ways in which the powerless 'work' a political system, this book highlights how evidence from China and social movement theory can speak to each other.
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Rating: - Contentious politics in rural China
This short book lays out, conceptually, what kind of contentious politics "Rightful Resistance" is and where in the literature its place should be.
Rightful Resistance is somewhere between James Scott's "everyday forms of resistance," on the one hand, and the sustained nature implied in Charles Tilly's notion that social movements are "campaigns." "Unlike rebels in the name of the tsar, rightful resisters stop short of violence...[but] they have learned how to exploit the potent symbolic ... Read More
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