Terry Woronov
Biographic Data
| ID | 207095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terry Woronov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terry |
| FAMILY NAME | Woronov |
| SIGNATURE | WORONOV T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3354-5600 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Waging Lawfare
When environmental NGOs in Australia successfully sued the nation's environment minister in August 2015 to temporarily withhold environmental approval for Australia's largest coal mine, the ruling Coalition government accused environmentalists of waging "lawfare." Through a critical discourse analysis of Parliamentary debate and media coverage, this article explores the lawfare battles fought in Australia in 2015, arguing that these were a site o…
Migrants, Media and Cultural Politics in China
A review of Wanning Sun, Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York and London, 2014
Youthful concerns
This commentary explores the links between language, modernity, and young people's movement - within nations and across borders. Given the scope and pace of globalization and transnational migration, this movement has created a good deal of local and national anxiety over how youth are negotiating their rights to belong - in schools, in cities, and in nation-states. The commentary addresses how youth must be understood as specifically modern subj…
Class Consciousness, Service Work
This essay discusses an interesting paradox forming in urban China today. Using a Weberian framework, it argues that recent changes in state policy, educational structures, and forms of social status are producing new social classes. Yet at the same time, the very processes and policies that enable these new class formations also mitigate against the development of class consciousness. Based on a year of ethnographic research in two vocational se…
Demanding and resisting vocational education
The Chinese government is pouring resources into building vocational education at all levels of the Chinese educational system. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in three vocational secondary schools in 2007–2012, this article compares rural and urban schools to highlight the persistent urban–rural divide in implementing vocational education, and to understand popular resistance to vocational education and its effects on students and fami…
Doing Time
Working-class youth enrolled in China's urban vocational schools spend years hanging out and sleeping through their classes. Rather than condemning this as a failure of the students' ability or the schools' pedagogy, this essay argues that attending vocational school is a form of mimetic labor in China today. Based on a year of ethnographic research in two vocational schools and theorized using Diane Elson's value theory of labor, this essay anal…
Learning to Serve
Governing China's Children
This article is a close study of the discourses and practices of suzhi jiaoyu or “Education for Quality” in contemporary Beijing. Through a study of efforts to raise the “quality” of the capital's children in order to raise the “quality” of the Chinese nation and its future, this article frames suzhi jiaoyu as a form of governmentality, dedicated to teaching children the “conduct of conduct” in postsocialist Beijing. Based on ethnographic researc…
"Raising Quality, Fostering "Creativity
Critics of education in China call for increasing students' "creativity" as key to improving the nation's education. This article examines the idea of children's "creativity" in Beijing, associated with an education reform movement called "Education for Quality." On the basis of ethnographic research in three elementary schools in Beijing, I argue that efforts to increase students' creativity flounder both on structural impediments within the Chi…
Performing the Nation
The Little Red Pioneers, the Chinese Communist Party's organization for children aged 7-12, seem anachronistic in China today. This article argues that the Pioneer organization, rather than being an outdated relic of the nation's Maoist past, provides insight into contemporary Chinese nationalism, particularly the theoretical question of how children are produced as national subjects. Based in Butler's concept of performativity, this article argu…
Little Friends
In the Eye of the Chicken
As Beijing is being transformed into a global city, new kinds of spatial and social hierarchies are produced. Based on ethnographic research conducted among students at a school for the children of migrant workers in China's capital, this article examines how new hierarchies are continuously produced through embodied spatial practices within city space, and examines how school texts, state ideology, and children's appearances produce new kinds of…
Learning to Serve
Demanding and resisting vocational education
The Chinese government is pouring resources into building vocational education at all levels of the Chinese educational system. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in three vocational secondary schools in 2007–2012, this article compares rural and urban schools to highlight the persistent urban–rural divide in implementing vocational education, and to understand popular resistance to vocational education and its effects on students and fami…
Governing China's Children
This article is a close study of the discourses and practices of suzhi jiaoyu or “Education for Quality” in contemporary Beijing. Through a study of efforts to raise the “quality” of the capital's children in order to raise the “quality” of the Chinese nation and its future, this article frames suzhi jiaoyu as a form of governmentality, dedicated to teaching children the “conduct of conduct” in postsocialist Beijing. Based on ethnographic researc…
In the Eye of the Chicken
As Beijing is being transformed into a global city, new kinds of spatial and social hierarchies are produced. Based on ethnographic research conducted among students at a school for the children of migrant workers in China's capital, this article examines how new hierarchies are continuously produced through embodied spatial practices within city space, and examines how school texts, state ideology, and children's appearances produce new kinds of…
"Raising Quality, Fostering "Creativity
Critics of education in China call for increasing students' "creativity" as key to improving the nation's education. This article examines the idea of children's "creativity" in Beijing, associated with an education reform movement called "Education for Quality." On the basis of ethnographic research in three elementary schools in Beijing, I argue that efforts to increase students' creativity flounder both on structural impediments within the Chi…
Performing the Nation
The Little Red Pioneers, the Chinese Communist Party's organization for children aged 7-12, seem anachronistic in China today. This article argues that the Pioneer organization, rather than being an outdated relic of the nation's Maoist past, provides insight into contemporary Chinese nationalism, particularly the theoretical question of how children are produced as national subjects. Based in Butler's concept of performativity, this article argu…
Class Consciousness, Service Work
This essay discusses an interesting paradox forming in urban China today. Using a Weberian framework, it argues that recent changes in state policy, educational structures, and forms of social status are producing new social classes. Yet at the same time, the very processes and policies that enable these new class formations also mitigate against the development of class consciousness. Based on a year of ethnographic research in two vocational se…
Doing Time
Working-class youth enrolled in China's urban vocational schools spend years hanging out and sleeping through their classes. Rather than condemning this as a failure of the students' ability or the schools' pedagogy, this essay argues that attending vocational school is a form of mimetic labor in China today. Based on a year of ethnographic research in two vocational schools and theorized using Diane Elson's value theory of labor, this essay anal…
Waging Lawfare
When environmental NGOs in Australia successfully sued the nation's environment minister in August 2015 to temporarily withhold environmental approval for Australia's largest coal mine, the ruling Coalition government accused environmentalists of waging "lawfare." Through a critical discourse analysis of Parliamentary debate and media coverage, this article explores the lawfare battles fought in Australia in 2015, arguing that these were a site o…
Youthful concerns
This commentary explores the links between language, modernity, and young people's movement - within nations and across borders. Given the scope and pace of globalization and transnational migration, this movement has created a good deal of local and national anxiety over how youth are negotiating their rights to belong - in schools, in cities, and in nation-states. The commentary addresses how youth must be understood as specifically modern subj…
In the Eye of the Chicken
As Beijing is being transformed into a global city, new kinds of spatial and social hierarchies are produced. Based on ethnographic research conducted among students at a school for the children of migrant workers in China's capital, this article examines how new hierarchies are continuously produced through embodied spatial practices within city space, and examines how school texts, state ideology, and children's appearances produce new kinds of…
Little Friends
Performing the Nation
The Little Red Pioneers, the Chinese Communist Party's organization for children aged 7-12, seem anachronistic in China today. This article argues that the Pioneer organization, rather than being an outdated relic of the nation's Maoist past, provides insight into contemporary Chinese nationalism, particularly the theoretical question of how children are produced as national subjects. Based in Butler's concept of performativity, this article argu…
"Raising Quality, Fostering "Creativity
Critics of education in China call for increasing students' "creativity" as key to improving the nation's education. This article examines the idea of children's "creativity" in Beijing, associated with an education reform movement called "Education for Quality." On the basis of ethnographic research in three elementary schools in Beijing, I argue that efforts to increase students' creativity flounder both on structural impediments within the Chi…
Governing China's Children
This article is a close study of the discourses and practices of suzhi jiaoyu or “Education for Quality” in contemporary Beijing. Through a study of efforts to raise the “quality” of the capital's children in order to raise the “quality” of the Chinese nation and its future, this article frames suzhi jiaoyu as a form of governmentality, dedicated to teaching children the “conduct of conduct” in postsocialist Beijing. Based on ethnographic researc…
Learning to Serve
Class Consciousness, Service Work
This essay discusses an interesting paradox forming in urban China today. Using a Weberian framework, it argues that recent changes in state policy, educational structures, and forms of social status are producing new social classes. Yet at the same time, the very processes and policies that enable these new class formations also mitigate against the development of class consciousness. Based on a year of ethnographic research in two vocational se…
Demanding and resisting vocational education
The Chinese government is pouring resources into building vocational education at all levels of the Chinese educational system. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in three vocational secondary schools in 2007–2012, this article compares rural and urban schools to highlight the persistent urban–rural divide in implementing vocational education, and to understand popular resistance to vocational education and its effects on students and fami…
Doing Time
Working-class youth enrolled in China's urban vocational schools spend years hanging out and sleeping through their classes. Rather than condemning this as a failure of the students' ability or the schools' pedagogy, this essay argues that attending vocational school is a form of mimetic labor in China today. Based on a year of ethnographic research in two vocational schools and theorized using Diane Elson's value theory of labor, this essay anal…
Youthful concerns
This commentary explores the links between language, modernity, and young people's movement - within nations and across borders. Given the scope and pace of globalization and transnational migration, this movement has created a good deal of local and national anxiety over how youth are negotiating their rights to belong - in schools, in cities, and in nation-states. The commentary addresses how youth must be understood as specifically modern subj…
Migrants, Media and Cultural Politics in China
A review of Wanning Sun, Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media, and Cultural Practices, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Boulder, New York and London, 2014
Waging Lawfare
When environmental NGOs in Australia successfully sued the nation's environment minister in August 2015 to temporarily withhold environmental approval for Australia's largest coal mine, the ruling Coalition government accused environmentalists of waging "lawfare." Through a critical discourse analysis of Parliamentary debate and media coverage, this article explores the lawfare battles fought in Australia in 2015, arguing that these were a site o…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · China (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)