Technomobility in China : Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones /
As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to "see the world"and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, this book provid...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University,
[2013]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : mobile bodies, mobile technologies, and immobile mobility
- Market reforms, global linkages, and (dis)continuity in post socialist China
- "My first big urban purchase" : mobile technologies and modern subjectivity
- Navigating mobile networks of sociality and intimacy
- Picturing the self, imagining the world
- Mobile communication and labor politics
- Conclusion : the mobile assemblage and social change in China.