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Mobilizing Without the Masses
Diana Fu
其他書名
Control and Contention in China
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2018
主題
Law / Legal Profession
Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations
Political Science / Political Process / General
Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy
Political Science / World / Asian
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
1108420540
9781108420549
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kBA6DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political ethnography inside both legal and blacklisted labor organizations in China, this book reveals how state repression is deployed on the ground and to what effect on mobilization. It presents a novel dynamic of civil society contention - mobilizing without the masses - that lowers the risk of activism under duress. Instead of facilitating collective action, activists coach the aggrieved to challenge authorities one by one. In doing so, they lower the risks of organizing while empowering the weak. This dynamic represents a third pathway of contention that challenges conventional understandings of mobilization in an illiberal state. It takes readers inside the world of underground labor organizing and opens the black box of repression inside the world's most powerful authoritarian state.