Susanne Brandtstädter
Biographic Data
| ID | 110510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susanne Brandtstädter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Brandtstädter |
| SIGNATURE | BRANDTSTÄDTER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4458-9289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rising from the ordinary: Virtue, the justice motif and moral change
Justice understood as a practical principle and virtue has remained an understudied subject in the anthropology of morality. Moral anthropology has explored the moral or ethical as a space of freedom and creativity, whereas justice has often been associated with rule-following or even the law. In contrast, my paper explores justice as a virtue whose social dynamic can initiate moral change in ordinary life. This virtue, as I understand it, compri…
Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State
Unprecedented social change in China has intensified the contradictions faced by ordinary people in everyday life. They may find themselves drawing on a number of different moral frameworks, being caught between official and popular discourses, and encountering radically different representations of China's past and its future. This volume deals with irony and cynicism in social life and local communities in China, and specifically in relation to…
Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens
Counterpolitics of Liberation in Contemporary China: Corruption, Law, and Popular Religion
This article explores the hidden transfers between law and religion by focussing on the conditions of existence of 'liberated' peasant subjects in contemporary China. The post-Maoist era sought to create new citizens from the collectivised Maoist masses who are subject to market reforms and a new politics of 'governing through law' (fazhi). At the same time, new religiousities have blossomed in the Chinese countryside. Representing 'feudal supers…
Kronglete moderniteter på den kinesiske landsbygda
The law cuts both ways: Rural legal activism and citizenship struggles in neosocialist China
This paper will draw on fieldwork in rural China and other sources to explore the interrelations between ‘governing culture’ and the question of ‘participation and equal rights’ as they reveal themselves in struggles over ‘the rule of law’ in contemporary China. As around the globe, the opening up to the global market and the construction of a modern legal system led in China to a new identity politics and a foregrounding of cultural citizenship …
Introduction: Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens
This special issue arose from a concern with the political logic of the foregrounding of collective cultures in the context of changing citizenship regimes. Its key focus is the conjuncture in which culture – claims of a collective distinction concerning heritage, location, moralities and values – has become the terrain of political struggles over the subject of rights in national and international politics, the re-allocation of entitlements, def…
Prickly Pear Polemics - Introduction to Sundar and Robbins: Culpability, Conversion and the Possibility of Justice
Prickly Pear Polemics - Introduction to Feuchtwang and Strathern: Judgement, Commensurability and Double Vision
Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of sociality, intimate relations, family histories, reproductive strategies and gender relations – and vice-versa. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic material …
Transitional Spaces: Postsocialism as a Cultural Process
Democratic thought and practice in rural China
Chinese democratization is usually thought of as a top-down process sponsored by a reform-minded government and liberal intellectuals. At the turn of the millennium, however, no such development is in sight. Only recently have Western scholars begun to look to the countryside for finding ‘sprouts of democracy’. This study explores village self-government as a possibility of making local political practices the foundation of an emerging rights con…
With Elias in China: Civilizing process, local restorations and power in contemporary rural China
This article argues for the relevance of Norbert Elias' theory of civilizing process and social figurations of power for a political anthropology of institutional emergence. The empirical case discussed here is the emergence of seemingly traditional institutions in the more `developed' regions of rural Southern China - temples and lineages - after the economic reforms. I show how Elias' theory of social figurations of these institutions out of lo…
Heute ernähren uns unsere Töchter“: Frauen und Marktwirtschaft: Eine Fallstudie in einem taiwanesischen Fischerdorf
Der Artikel zeigt anhand der Ergebnisse einer ethnographischen Feldstudie, daß die weit verbreitete These einer „Marginalisierung“ bzw. „Hausfrauisierung“ von Frauen sich in dem taiwanesischen Fischerdorf Niaoyu als falsch erweist, wenn wirtschaftlicher Wandel auf lokaler Ebene kontextualisiert wird. Soziale und kulturelle Dynamiken interagierten in Niaoyu im Zuge von Kommerzialisierung und Industrialisierung solchermaßen, daß im Verlauf dieses P…
Transitional Spaces: Postsocialism as a Cultural Process
The law cuts both ways: Rural legal activism and citizenship struggles in neosocialist China
This paper will draw on fieldwork in rural China and other sources to explore the interrelations between ‘governing culture’ and the question of ‘participation and equal rights’ as they reveal themselves in struggles over ‘the rule of law’ in contemporary China. As around the globe, the opening up to the global market and the construction of a modern legal system led in China to a new identity politics and a foregrounding of cultural citizenship …
With Elias in China: Civilizing process, local restorations and power in contemporary rural China
This article argues for the relevance of Norbert Elias' theory of civilizing process and social figurations of power for a political anthropology of institutional emergence. The empirical case discussed here is the emergence of seemingly traditional institutions in the more `developed' regions of rural Southern China - temples and lineages - after the economic reforms. I show how Elias' theory of social figurations of these institutions out of lo…
Introduction: Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens
This special issue arose from a concern with the political logic of the foregrounding of collective cultures in the context of changing citizenship regimes. Its key focus is the conjuncture in which culture – claims of a collective distinction concerning heritage, location, moralities and values – has become the terrain of political struggles over the subject of rights in national and international politics, the re-allocation of entitlements, def…
Counterpolitics of Liberation in Contemporary China: Corruption, Law, and Popular Religion
This article explores the hidden transfers between law and religion by focussing on the conditions of existence of 'liberated' peasant subjects in contemporary China. The post-Maoist era sought to create new citizens from the collectivised Maoist masses who are subject to market reforms and a new politics of 'governing through law' (fazhi). At the same time, new religiousities have blossomed in the Chinese countryside. Representing 'feudal supers…
Rising from the ordinary: Virtue, the justice motif and moral change
Justice understood as a practical principle and virtue has remained an understudied subject in the anthropology of morality. Moral anthropology has explored the moral or ethical as a space of freedom and creativity, whereas justice has often been associated with rule-following or even the law. In contrast, my paper explores justice as a virtue whose social dynamic can initiate moral change in ordinary life. This virtue, as I understand it, compri…
Prickly Pear Polemics - Introduction to Feuchtwang and Strathern: Judgement, Commensurability and Double Vision
Democratic thought and practice in rural China
Chinese democratization is usually thought of as a top-down process sponsored by a reform-minded government and liberal intellectuals. At the turn of the millennium, however, no such development is in sight. Only recently have Western scholars begun to look to the countryside for finding ‘sprouts of democracy’. This study explores village self-government as a possibility of making local political practices the foundation of an emerging rights con…
Heute ernähren uns unsere Töchter“: Frauen und Marktwirtschaft: Eine Fallstudie in einem taiwanesischen Fischerdorf
Der Artikel zeigt anhand der Ergebnisse einer ethnographischen Feldstudie, daß die weit verbreitete These einer „Marginalisierung“ bzw. „Hausfrauisierung“ von Frauen sich in dem taiwanesischen Fischerdorf Niaoyu als falsch erweist, wenn wirtschaftlicher Wandel auf lokaler Ebene kontextualisiert wird. Soziale und kulturelle Dynamiken interagierten in Niaoyu im Zuge von Kommerzialisierung und Industrialisierung solchermaßen, daß im Verlauf dieses P…
With Elias in China: Civilizing process, local restorations and power in contemporary rural China
This article argues for the relevance of Norbert Elias' theory of civilizing process and social figurations of power for a political anthropology of institutional emergence. The empirical case discussed here is the emergence of seemingly traditional institutions in the more `developed' regions of rural Southern China - temples and lineages - after the economic reforms. I show how Elias' theory of social figurations of these institutions out of lo…
Democratic thought and practice in rural China
Chinese democratization is usually thought of as a top-down process sponsored by a reform-minded government and liberal intellectuals. At the turn of the millennium, however, no such development is in sight. Only recently have Western scholars begun to look to the countryside for finding ‘sprouts of democracy’. This study explores village self-government as a possibility of making local political practices the foundation of an emerging rights con…
Transitional Spaces: Postsocialism as a Cultural Process
Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of sociality, intimate relations, family histories, reproductive strategies and gender relations – and vice-versa. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic material …
Prickly Pear Polemics - Introduction to Sundar and Robbins: Culpability, Conversion and the Possibility of Justice
Prickly Pear Polemics - Introduction to Feuchtwang and Strathern: Judgement, Commensurability and Double Vision
Kronglete moderniteter på den kinesiske landsbygda
The law cuts both ways: Rural legal activism and citizenship struggles in neosocialist China
This paper will draw on fieldwork in rural China and other sources to explore the interrelations between ‘governing culture’ and the question of ‘participation and equal rights’ as they reveal themselves in struggles over ‘the rule of law’ in contemporary China. As around the globe, the opening up to the global market and the construction of a modern legal system led in China to a new identity politics and a foregrounding of cultural citizenship …
Introduction: Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens
This special issue arose from a concern with the political logic of the foregrounding of collective cultures in the context of changing citizenship regimes. Its key focus is the conjuncture in which culture – claims of a collective distinction concerning heritage, location, moralities and values – has become the terrain of political struggles over the subject of rights in national and international politics, the re-allocation of entitlements, def…
Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens
Counterpolitics of Liberation in Contemporary China: Corruption, Law, and Popular Religion
This article explores the hidden transfers between law and religion by focussing on the conditions of existence of 'liberated' peasant subjects in contemporary China. The post-Maoist era sought to create new citizens from the collectivised Maoist masses who are subject to market reforms and a new politics of 'governing through law' (fazhi). At the same time, new religiousities have blossomed in the Chinese countryside. Representing 'feudal supers…
Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State
Unprecedented social change in China has intensified the contradictions faced by ordinary people in everyday life. They may find themselves drawing on a number of different moral frameworks, being caught between official and popular discourses, and encountering radically different representations of China's past and its future. This volume deals with irony and cynicism in social life and local communities in China, and specifically in relation to…
Rising from the ordinary: Virtue, the justice motif and moral change
Justice understood as a practical principle and virtue has remained an understudied subject in the anthropology of morality. Moral anthropology has explored the moral or ethical as a space of freedom and creativity, whereas justice has often been associated with rule-following or even the law. In contrast, my paper explores justice as a virtue whose social dynamic can initiate moral change in ordinary life. This virtue, as I understand it, compri…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · China (4 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)