Michael L Zukosky
Biographic Data
| ID | 4036345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael L Zukosky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael L |
| FAMILY NAME | Zukosky |
| SIGNATURE | ZUKOSKY M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
China on Strike
As is well known, the lack of independent labor unions is one of the reasons that China is so attractive to global capital. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the official organizati
Scattered Sand
Hsiao-Hung Pai, Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants (London: Verso, 2012) Hsiao-Hung Pai's new book explores exploitation and injustice among migrant laborers in contemporary China
Quality, Development Discourse, and Minority Subjectivity in Contemporary Xinjiang
The government discourse that describes poverty in a minority nationality county in northern Xinjiang follows specific patterns. The term “quality” ( suzhi) is used to attribute the roots of poverty to residents themselves as well as to legitimate official poverty-alleviation and market-development strategies. This official use of suzhi discourse attempts to constitute a particular kind of subjectivity within China’s market economy but obscures l…
Reconsidering governmental effects of grassland science and policy in China
This article explores why local pastoral land use arrangements in northwestern China differ from national level grassland policy objectives and initiatives. Drawing on the local particularities of fieldwork in a Chinese ethnic minority region, I argue that the land use arrangements which resulted from the implementation of decollectivization and new grassland management policies represent both an engagement of the minority area by the central gov…
Making Pastoral Settlement Visible in China
Seen in the built environment of village and towns, the plans of scientific texts and journals of modern animal husbandry, and in the programmes of state natural resource bureaucracies and international development projects, settlements constructed for nomadic peoples in China seem to index a historically and socially specific vision associated with modern political economic ideologies. Drawing on the work of James Scott (1996), one might argue t…
Making Pastoral Settlement Visible in China
Seen in the built environment of village and towns, the plans of scientific texts and journals of modern animal husbandry, and in the programmes of state natural resource bureaucracies and international development projects, settlements constructed for nomadic peoples in China seem to index a historically and socially specific vision associated with modern political economic ideologies. Drawing on the work of James Scott (1996), one might argue t…
Quality, Development Discourse, and Minority Subjectivity in Contemporary Xinjiang
The government discourse that describes poverty in a minority nationality county in northern Xinjiang follows specific patterns. The term “quality” ( suzhi) is used to attribute the roots of poverty to residents themselves as well as to legitimate official poverty-alleviation and market-development strategies. This official use of suzhi discourse attempts to constitute a particular kind of subjectivity within China’s market economy but obscures l…
Reconsidering governmental effects of grassland science and policy in China
This article explores why local pastoral land use arrangements in northwestern China differ from national level grassland policy objectives and initiatives. Drawing on the local particularities of fieldwork in a Chinese ethnic minority region, I argue that the land use arrangements which resulted from the implementation of decollectivization and new grassland management policies represent both an engagement of the minority area by the central gov…
Making Pastoral Settlement Visible in China
Seen in the built environment of village and towns, the plans of scientific texts and journals of modern animal husbandry, and in the programmes of state natural resource bureaucracies and international development projects, settlements constructed for nomadic peoples in China seem to index a historically and socially specific vision associated with modern political economic ideologies. Drawing on the work of James Scott (1996), one might argue t…
Reconsidering governmental effects of grassland science and policy in China
This article explores why local pastoral land use arrangements in northwestern China differ from national level grassland policy objectives and initiatives. Drawing on the local particularities of fieldwork in a Chinese ethnic minority region, I argue that the land use arrangements which resulted from the implementation of decollectivization and new grassland management policies represent both an engagement of the minority area by the central gov…
Quality, Development Discourse, and Minority Subjectivity in Contemporary Xinjiang
The government discourse that describes poverty in a minority nationality county in northern Xinjiang follows specific patterns. The term “quality” ( suzhi) is used to attribute the roots of poverty to residents themselves as well as to legitimate official poverty-alleviation and market-development strategies. This official use of suzhi discourse attempts to constitute a particular kind of subjectivity within China’s market economy but obscures l…
Scattered Sand
Hsiao-Hung Pai, Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants (London: Verso, 2012) Hsiao-Hung Pai's new book explores exploitation and injustice among migrant laborers in contemporary China
China on Strike
As is well known, the lack of independent labor unions is one of the reasons that China is so attractive to global capital. The All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the official organizati
China (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (2 works)