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OverviewPolarizing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Christof LammerPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781805396512ISBN 10: 180539651 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 01 September 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Performative Boundary Work PART I: State Boundaries in a Food Network Chapter 1. Participation and Anaglyphic Boundary Repertoires Chapter 2. Eco-Certification and Scripts of Community Chapter 3. Acting as Father-State and Mother-Society PART II: State Boundaries in Democratic Bureaucracy Chapter 4. Democracy and Paternalism Folded in Documents Chapter 5. Anticipating Bureaucratic Standardization Chapter 6. Measuring Familism, Marking Corruption Conclusion: Unblurring the Multiplicity of State Boundaries References IndexReviews“Lammer’s book is an excellent example of an ethnographically grounded theoretical work. It offers a useful and dense overview of the anthropology of the state … it discusses and advances cutting-edge theoretical questions. Another strength of this book is that it counterbalances the Orientalist othering of China.” • Klāvs Sedlenieks, Rīga Stradi�š University “The book is of interest not just to scholars studying China but more generally to social scientists, particularly to social anthropologists to whom it advocates the infusion of the political to the study of kinship. It is well organised, suitable for academics and their libraries, and for courses on the local state in the PRC and the anthropology of state.” • Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics and Political Science Author InformationChristof Lammer is a social anthropologist and Postdoctoral Assistant in the Department of Society, Knowledge and Politics, University of Klagenfurt. He has co-edited special issues on ‘Measuring Kinship’ (2021, Social Analysis) and ‘Infrastructures of Value’ (2023, Ethnos). He is also a co-organizer of the Scientific Network ‘Anthropology and China(s)’ (2021–2025). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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