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The Middle Class in Neoliberal China : Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces.
Since the late 1970s, China's move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world's fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understandin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge contemporary China series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; The Middle Class in Neoliberal China: Governing risk, life-building, and themed spaces; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The risk economy of the middle class; Studies of the middle class in social and human sciences; The middle class in Chinese studies; A theory of the dispositive; The book's organization; 1 The state question of the middle class; The state representation of the people: the one-many dialectics; Political representation in China; The taming of chance; Engineering the middle class; 2 Cultural neoliberalization.
- Cinematic discourse of classClass struggle as practice; Museum as an institution; Museum as an enterprise; Cultural entrepreneurism; Conclusion: the work of media culture in the neoliberal process; 3 Life spectacles; Defining life spectacle; Life television; Synergy, convergence, and affective labor; Distributive regimes of power; 4 Imagineering a middle-class society; Manufactured landscape; Participatory consumption and subjectification; Consumer citizenship as an individualized configuration of values and norms; 5 Middle-class photography; Ethnic affective labor and photographic poses.
- Digital photographyCosmopolitanism, consumer responsibility, and middle-class subjectivity; Photography as technologies of the self; 6 Individualization and precariousness of life; Facial recognition; Still life; Affective labor and the subjectification of life; The middle-class frame and precariousness of life; Conclusion: The middle-class dispositive in Chinese risk society; Notes; Bibliography; Index.