Erika Kuever
Biographic Data
| ID | 125860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erika Kuever |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erika |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuever |
| SIGNATURE | KUEVER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Denmark |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3409-2332 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Legacies of Lockdown
When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions might be expected to foster cooperation and exchange that could build durable social ties, but this arti…
If the People Do Not Raise the Issue, the Officials Will Not Investigate”
Are China’s fake-fighters (打假, dajia) heroic consumer activists or morally dubious profit-seekers? Do they make the marketplace safer for ordinary consumers by using the law to “fight” fake, dangerous and falsely advertised goods, or benefit only themselves through the exploitation of legal loopholes? Since the 1994 Consumer Protection Law introduced a fiscal incentive that made fake-fighting a viable career, its practitioners have struggled to d…
The sociology of consumption
The 1980s and 1990s were a heyday for ambitious treatises on consumption, and while the intervening years have witnessed a steady stream of excellent work in multiple disciplines, book-length treat
Moral imaginings of the market and the state in contemporary China
In contemporary China, the site of endemic food scandals and persistent anxiety about the quality and safety of products, moral imaginings of the market implicate state actors and institutions. In articulating perceived injustices, Chinese consumer-citizens resort not to the "mutual rights and obligations" of buyers and sellers specified in the Consumer Law but to ideals of fairness that include the role of the state in regulating the market. The…
Performance, Spectacle, and Visual Poetry in the Sixtieth Anniversary N ational D ay Parade in the P eople's R epublic of C hina
The sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the P eople's R epublic of C hina on 1 O ctober 2009 was marked with a massive parade in the heart of B eijing viewed on hundreds of millions of television screens across the nation. E nglish‐language media coverage focused primarily on what it saw as the event's explicit message: the C ommunist P arty's celebration of the nation's military might and continued economic growth, and its origins in a coher…
Moral imaginings of the market and the state in contemporary China
In contemporary China, the site of endemic food scandals and persistent anxiety about the quality and safety of products, moral imaginings of the market implicate state actors and institutions. In articulating perceived injustices, Chinese consumer-citizens resort not to the "mutual rights and obligations" of buyers and sellers specified in the Consumer Law but to ideals of fairness that include the role of the state in regulating the market. The…
Performance, Spectacle, and Visual Poetry in the Sixtieth Anniversary N ational D ay Parade in the P eople's R epublic of C hina
The sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the P eople's R epublic of C hina on 1 O ctober 2009 was marked with a massive parade in the heart of B eijing viewed on hundreds of millions of television screens across the nation. E nglish‐language media coverage focused primarily on what it saw as the event's explicit message: the C ommunist P arty's celebration of the nation's military might and continued economic growth, and its origins in a coher…
Performance, Spectacle, and Visual Poetry in the Sixtieth Anniversary N ational D ay Parade in the P eople's R epublic of C hina
The sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the P eople's R epublic of C hina on 1 O ctober 2009 was marked with a massive parade in the heart of B eijing viewed on hundreds of millions of television screens across the nation. E nglish‐language media coverage focused primarily on what it saw as the event's explicit message: the C ommunist P arty's celebration of the nation's military might and continued economic growth, and its origins in a coher…
If the People Do Not Raise the Issue, the Officials Will Not Investigate”
Are China’s fake-fighters (打假, dajia) heroic consumer activists or morally dubious profit-seekers? Do they make the marketplace safer for ordinary consumers by using the law to “fight” fake, dangerous and falsely advertised goods, or benefit only themselves through the exploitation of legal loopholes? Since the 1994 Consumer Protection Law introduced a fiscal incentive that made fake-fighting a viable career, its practitioners have struggled to d…
The sociology of consumption
The 1980s and 1990s were a heyday for ambitious treatises on consumption, and while the intervening years have witnessed a steady stream of excellent work in multiple disciplines, book-length treat
Moral imaginings of the market and the state in contemporary China
In contemporary China, the site of endemic food scandals and persistent anxiety about the quality and safety of products, moral imaginings of the market implicate state actors and institutions. In articulating perceived injustices, Chinese consumer-citizens resort not to the "mutual rights and obligations" of buyers and sellers specified in the Consumer Law but to ideals of fairness that include the role of the state in regulating the market. The…
The Legacies of Lockdown
When Shanghai entered an extended lockdown under China's Zero‐COVID policy in spring 2022, residents found themselves confined within their residential compounds, cut off from conventional supply chains, and dependent on improvised systems of local provisioning and state rationing. From the perspective of economic anthropology, such conditions might be expected to foster cooperation and exchange that could build durable social ties, but this arti…
China (3 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Framing (construction (2 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (2 works)