Chinese NGOs at the interface between governmentality and local society
An actor-oriented perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3838490 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liu Qing (0000-0002-7551-2612, Sichuan University), Qing Liu (0000-0002-5792-6037, Sichuan University), David A Palmer (0000-0003-0884-995X, University of Hong Kong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 158-178 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | China Information (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0920-203X • E-ISSN: 1741-590X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0920203x20942094 |
| OpenAlex | W3083877424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 44 |
The relations between society and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have been relatively neglected in the field of China NGO studies, which remains largely wedded to a state-NGO problematic within a state-society framework. In this anthropological study of an NGO's post-Wenchuan earthquake recovery programme, we adopt an actor-oriented approach to identify the main lines of tension between the strategies, rationalities, and techniques deployed by the different actors in the field. Focusing on NGO-society relations, we take the NGO not as an incarnation of society vis-a-vis the state, nor as an incarnation of the state vis-a-vis society, but as a key link in a shifting chain of state and non-state actors that aims to introduce to local society an assemblage of techniques, discourses, and values for the promotion of self-government. This 'international development package' is a specific form of what social scientists have theorized as 'governmentality'. In this case study, the modalities of participation and cooperative self-government promoted within this development package are in tension with local values, social relations, and political structures. The case shows that dynamic tensions between the actors are mediated by the deployment of practices of governance that circulate between international institutions and networks, state agencies, NGOs, and local authorities and actors
Civil society · Clientelism · Corporate governance · Economics · Embeddedness · Field (mathematics · Government (linguistics · Governmentality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · International Development and Aid · Law · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
Non-Governmental Organizations and Development
Development Sociology
Negotiating the State
An Institutional Approach to Chinese NGOs
Institutional Reform and the Bianzhi System in China
Encounters at the Interface
Governmentality
Social Economy in China and the World
Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience
Adventures in Aidland
NGO Governance and Management in China
Powers of Freedom
The Centrality of Actors and Interfaces in the Understanding of New Ruralities
Organizational Homophily in International Grantmaking
Conceptualizing government-organized non-governmental organizations
Advocacy in an Authoritarian State
Negotiating Service Activism in China
Peasant Resistance beyond the State
Defining Chinese Nongovernmental Organizations
Human-Centred’ Development? Rethinking ‘Freedom’ and ‘Agency’ in Discourses of International Development
Understanding the Process of Community Capacity-Building
Governmentality and the Politicisation of Social Work in China
Value clashes, power competition and community trust
Non-Governmental Organizations and Governmentality
Governance to Governmentality
Political power beyond the State
Children and youth NGOs in China
Getting Close to the Action
Benefit Sharing for All
Farmer Initiatives and Livelihood Diversification
Ethics of the Heart
Contingent Symbiosis and Civil Society in an Authoritarian State
Neo-socialist governmentality
The birth of bio-politics
Spatializing States
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |