Matthew Kohrman
Biographic Data
| ID | 517507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Kohrman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohrman |
| SIGNATURE | KOHRMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Feminist Cyberlaw
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism
Filtered Life: Air Purification, Gender, and Cigarettes in the People's Republic of China
Air purification in Chinese contexts over the last half century has been generative for a way of being human, what the author calls "filtered life." This is a materially, aesthetically, and even humorously mediated form of dwelling. In it, people confront ethics and anxieties under conditions of aerosolized ruination. This article sheds special light on links between gender binaries and filtered life. It traces how, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives
A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their allies have fueled a tripling of the world's annua…
Tobacco Reconsidered: Ongoing Omissions, Original Outlooks in the Slipstreams of Experience, Global Health, and Critical Industry Studies
Nearly a decade ago, we published the first Annual Review of Anthropology article on tobacco ( Kohrman & Benson 2011 ). Since then, much has happened, and much has persisted regarding human-tobacco relations. Here, we present a stocktaking of how scholars drawing on anthropological methods have responded
Curating Employee Ethics: Self-Glory Amidst Slow Violence at The China Tobacco Museum
Seen through the prism of public health, the cigarette industry is an apparatus of death. To those who run it, however, it is something more prosaic: a workplace comprised of people whose morale is to be shepherded. Provisioning employees of the cigarette industry with psychic scaffolding to carry out effective daily work is a prime purpose of the China Tobacco Museum. This multistoried exhibition space in Shanghai is a technology of self, offeri…
Cloaks and Veils: Countervisualizing Cigarette Factories In and Outside of China
In this article, I consider what a casual observer can see of a notorious product's primary place of fabrication. Few products have been criticized in recent years more than cigarettes. Meanwhile, around the world, the factories manufacturing cigarettes rarely come under scrutiny. What have been the optics helping these key links in the cigarette supply chain to be overlooked? What has prompted such optics to be adopted and to what effect? I addr…
Tobacco
Anthropologists have long studied tobacco, what is today the world's greatest cause of preventable death. Their publications have garnered modest attention, however, even as the academy is increasingly interested in global health, transnational commoditization, pharmaceuticals, and the politics of life and death. We take stock of anthropology's tobacco literature and our discipline's broader appetites. We review how colleagues have studied health…
Smoking among Doctors: Governmentality, Embodiment, and the Diversion of Blame in Contemporary China
How and to what effect have physicians in China become frequent cigarette smokers and blamed as engines of nationwide tobacco-induced suffering? Building on governmentality heuristics, I argue that multilevel interactions of biopolitics and male embodiment have been especially significant in shaping these phenomena. Of the effects gleaned in my fieldwork ongoing since 2003, the most important is a deflection of responsibility for tobacco-induced …
Depoliticizing Tobacco's Exceptionality: Male Sociality, Death and Memory-Making among Chinese Cigarette Smokers
Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China
Bodies of Difference chronicles the compelling story of disability's emergence as an area of significant sociopolitical activity in contemporary China. Keenly attentive to how bodies are embedded in discourse, history, and personal exigency, Matthew Kohrman details ways that disability became a fount for the production of institutions and identities across the Chinese landscape during the final decades of the twentieth century. He looks closely a…
Bodies of DifferenceExperiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China: Experiences of disability and institutional advocacy in the making of modern China
A Biomythography in the Making 2. Why Ma Zhun Doesn't Count 3. Building a Corporate Body 4. Speeding Up Life in Beijing 5. Troubled Sociality: The Federation-Canji Relationship in Wenchang County 6. Dis/ablement and Marriage: Ridiculed Bachelors, Ambivalent Grooms Epilogue Notes Appendixes References Index
Why Am I Not Disabled? Making State Subjects, Making Statistics in Post-;Mao China
In this article I examine how and why disability was defined and statistically quantified by China's party-state in the late 1980s. I describe the unfolding of a particular epidemiological undertaking-China's 1987 National Sample Survey of Disabled Persons-as well as the ways the survey was an extension of what Ian Hacking has called modernity's "avalanche of numbers." I argue that, to a large degree, what fueled and shaped the 1987 survey's codi…
Authorizing a Disability Agency in Post-Mao China: Deng Pufang's Story as Biomythography
Motorcycles for the Disabled: Mobility, Modernity and the Transformation of Experience in Urban China
GroomingQue zi: Marriage Exclusion and Identity Formation Among Disabled Men in Contemporary China
Using a form of narrative analysis, I explore how marriage in contemporary China influences people's identity formation as "men with disabilities." In particular, I examine how local practices of marriage exclusion shape the definition, marginalization, and experience of men who have trouble walking. This discussion is more phenomenological than most previous accounts of men's experiences of marriage in Chinese Society, [marriage, disability, ide…
Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China
Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China, Francesca Bray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 419 pp
Depoliticizing Tobacco's Exceptionality: Male Sociality, Death and Memory-Making among Chinese Cigarette Smokers
GroomingQue zi: Marriage Exclusion and Identity Formation Among Disabled Men in Contemporary China
Using a form of narrative analysis, I explore how marriage in contemporary China influences people's identity formation as "men with disabilities." In particular, I examine how local practices of marriage exclusion shape the definition, marginalization, and experience of men who have trouble walking. This discussion is more phenomenological than most previous accounts of men's experiences of marriage in Chinese Society, [marriage, disability, ide…
Tobacco
Anthropologists have long studied tobacco, what is today the world's greatest cause of preventable death. Their publications have garnered modest attention, however, even as the academy is increasingly interested in global health, transnational commoditization, pharmaceuticals, and the politics of life and death. We take stock of anthropology's tobacco literature and our discipline's broader appetites. We review how colleagues have studied health…
Smoking among Doctors: Governmentality, Embodiment, and the Diversion of Blame in Contemporary China
How and to what effect have physicians in China become frequent cigarette smokers and blamed as engines of nationwide tobacco-induced suffering? Building on governmentality heuristics, I argue that multilevel interactions of biopolitics and male embodiment have been especially significant in shaping these phenomena. Of the effects gleaned in my fieldwork ongoing since 2003, the most important is a deflection of responsibility for tobacco-induced …
Why Am I Not Disabled? Making State Subjects, Making Statistics in Post-;Mao China
In this article I examine how and why disability was defined and statistically quantified by China's party-state in the late 1980s. I describe the unfolding of a particular epidemiological undertaking-China's 1987 National Sample Survey of Disabled Persons-as well as the ways the survey was an extension of what Ian Hacking has called modernity's "avalanche of numbers." I argue that, to a large degree, what fueled and shaped the 1987 survey's codi…
Authorizing a Disability Agency in Post-Mao China: Deng Pufang's Story as Biomythography
Cloaks and Veils: Countervisualizing Cigarette Factories In and Outside of China
In this article, I consider what a casual observer can see of a notorious product's primary place of fabrication. Few products have been criticized in recent years more than cigarettes. Meanwhile, around the world, the factories manufacturing cigarettes rarely come under scrutiny. What have been the optics helping these key links in the cigarette supply chain to be overlooked? What has prompted such optics to be adopted and to what effect? I addr…
Filtered Life: Air Purification, Gender, and Cigarettes in the People's Republic of China
Air purification in Chinese contexts over the last half century has been generative for a way of being human, what the author calls "filtered life." This is a materially, aesthetically, and even humorously mediated form of dwelling. In it, people confront ethics and anxieties under conditions of aerosolized ruination. This article sheds special light on links between gender binaries and filtered life. It traces how, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Tobacco Reconsidered: Ongoing Omissions, Original Outlooks in the Slipstreams of Experience, Global Health, and Critical Industry Studies
Nearly a decade ago, we published the first Annual Review of Anthropology article on tobacco ( Kohrman & Benson 2011 ). Since then, much has happened, and much has persisted regarding human-tobacco relations. Here, we present a stocktaking of how scholars drawing on anthropological methods have responded
Curating Employee Ethics: Self-Glory Amidst Slow Violence at The China Tobacco Museum
Seen through the prism of public health, the cigarette industry is an apparatus of death. To those who run it, however, it is something more prosaic: a workplace comprised of people whose morale is to be shepherded. Provisioning employees of the cigarette industry with psychic scaffolding to carry out effective daily work is a prime purpose of the China Tobacco Museum. This multistoried exhibition space in Shanghai is a technology of self, offeri…
Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China
Technology and Gender: Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China, Francesca Bray. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 419 pp
Motorcycles for the Disabled: Mobility, Modernity and the Transformation of Experience in Urban China
GroomingQue zi: Marriage Exclusion and Identity Formation Among Disabled Men in Contemporary China
Using a form of narrative analysis, I explore how marriage in contemporary China influences people's identity formation as "men with disabilities." In particular, I examine how local practices of marriage exclusion shape the definition, marginalization, and experience of men who have trouble walking. This discussion is more phenomenological than most previous accounts of men's experiences of marriage in Chinese Society, [marriage, disability, ide…
Why Am I Not Disabled? Making State Subjects, Making Statistics in Post-;Mao China
In this article I examine how and why disability was defined and statistically quantified by China's party-state in the late 1980s. I describe the unfolding of a particular epidemiological undertaking-China's 1987 National Sample Survey of Disabled Persons-as well as the ways the survey was an extension of what Ian Hacking has called modernity's "avalanche of numbers." I argue that, to a large degree, what fueled and shaped the 1987 survey's codi…
Authorizing a Disability Agency in Post-Mao China: Deng Pufang's Story as Biomythography
Bodies of Difference: Experiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China
Bodies of Difference chronicles the compelling story of disability's emergence as an area of significant sociopolitical activity in contemporary China. Keenly attentive to how bodies are embedded in discourse, history, and personal exigency, Matthew Kohrman details ways that disability became a fount for the production of institutions and identities across the Chinese landscape during the final decades of the twentieth century. He looks closely a…
Bodies of DifferenceExperiences of Disability and Institutional Advocacy in the Making of Modern China: Experiences of disability and institutional advocacy in the making of modern China
A Biomythography in the Making 2. Why Ma Zhun Doesn't Count 3. Building a Corporate Body 4. Speeding Up Life in Beijing 5. Troubled Sociality: The Federation-Canji Relationship in Wenchang County 6. Dis/ablement and Marriage: Ridiculed Bachelors, Ambivalent Grooms Epilogue Notes Appendixes References Index
Depoliticizing Tobacco's Exceptionality: Male Sociality, Death and Memory-Making among Chinese Cigarette Smokers
Smoking among Doctors: Governmentality, Embodiment, and the Diversion of Blame in Contemporary China
How and to what effect have physicians in China become frequent cigarette smokers and blamed as engines of nationwide tobacco-induced suffering? Building on governmentality heuristics, I argue that multilevel interactions of biopolitics and male embodiment have been especially significant in shaping these phenomena. Of the effects gleaned in my fieldwork ongoing since 2003, the most important is a deflection of responsibility for tobacco-induced …
Tobacco
Anthropologists have long studied tobacco, what is today the world's greatest cause of preventable death. Their publications have garnered modest attention, however, even as the academy is increasingly interested in global health, transnational commoditization, pharmaceuticals, and the politics of life and death. We take stock of anthropology's tobacco literature and our discipline's broader appetites. We review how colleagues have studied health…
Cloaks and Veils: Countervisualizing Cigarette Factories In and Outside of China
In this article, I consider what a casual observer can see of a notorious product's primary place of fabrication. Few products have been criticized in recent years more than cigarettes. Meanwhile, around the world, the factories manufacturing cigarettes rarely come under scrutiny. What have been the optics helping these key links in the cigarette supply chain to be overlooked? What has prompted such optics to be adopted and to what effect? I addr…
Curating Employee Ethics: Self-Glory Amidst Slow Violence at The China Tobacco Museum
Seen through the prism of public health, the cigarette industry is an apparatus of death. To those who run it, however, it is something more prosaic: a workplace comprised of people whose morale is to be shepherded. Provisioning employees of the cigarette industry with psychic scaffolding to carry out effective daily work is a prime purpose of the China Tobacco Museum. This multistoried exhibition space in Shanghai is a technology of self, offeri…
Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives
A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco companies and their allies have fueled a tripling of the world's annua…
Tobacco Reconsidered: Ongoing Omissions, Original Outlooks in the Slipstreams of Experience, Global Health, and Critical Industry Studies
Nearly a decade ago, we published the first Annual Review of Anthropology article on tobacco ( Kohrman & Benson 2011 ). Since then, much has happened, and much has persisted regarding human-tobacco relations. Here, we present a stocktaking of how scholars drawing on anthropological methods have responded
Filtered Life: Air Purification, Gender, and Cigarettes in the People's Republic of China
Air purification in Chinese contexts over the last half century has been generative for a way of being human, what the author calls "filtered life." This is a materially, aesthetically, and even humorously mediated form of dwelling. In it, people confront ethics and anxieties under conditions of aerosolized ruination. This article sheds special light on links between gender binaries and filtered life. It traces how, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Feminist Cyberlaw
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · China (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · History (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)