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The Resource Mobilizing without the masses : control and contention in China, Diana Fu, (electronic resource)

Mobilizing without the masses : control and contention in China, Diana Fu, (electronic resource)

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Mobilizing without the masses : control and contention in China
Title
Mobilizing without the masses
Title remainder
control and contention in China
Statement of responsibility
Diana Fu
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
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
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UkCbUP
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Fu, Diana
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Cambridge studies in contentious politics
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  • Political participation
  • Social movements
  • Civil society
Label
Mobilizing without the masses : control and contention in China, Diana Fu, (electronic resource)
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Publication
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Nov 2017)
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ssj0001952181
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unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 196 pages)
Form of item
online
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Isbn
9781108354707
Isbn Type
(ebook)
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s)
Specific material designation
remote
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(WaSeSS)ssj0001952181
Label
Mobilizing without the masses : control and contention in China, Diana Fu, (electronic resource)
Publication
Note
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Nov 2017)
Control code
ssj0001952181
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xiii, 196 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Access restricted to subscribing institutions
Isbn
9781108354707
Isbn Type
(ebook)
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s)
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(WaSeSS)ssj0001952181

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