Guest Editor's Introduction
Cultures of Labor and the Labor of Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12423903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paola Iovene (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 257-279 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | positions asia critique (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1067-9847 • E-ISSN: 1527-8271 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10679847-10300188 |
| OpenAlex | W4377227371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 46 |
This special issue originates from the workshop "Cultures of Labor, Inequalities, and Eviction: Migrant Worker Literature and Media Practices in Contemporary China" held at the University of Chicago Center in Beijing in June 2019.The workshop brought together scholars and activists to discuss the ways in which migrant workers cope with dislocation and precarity through cultural practices such as writing, music, theater, and use of the internet and social media.By "cultures of labor" we meant the expressive forms and meaning-making practices by and about those who are referred to or identify as "rural migrants" (nongmingong 农民工), "precarious laborers" (dagongzhe 打工者), or "new workers" (xin gongren 新工人): fluid, overlapping, and internally diverse categories characterized by conditions of subalternity largely due to exploitative labor relations and unfair distribution of rights rooted in the Chinese household registration system (hukou 户口) and
Economics · Labour economics · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
The Politics of Aesthetics
The Cultural Studies Reader
Subaltern China
Debts
World Factory
Everything is Different, but Nothing Has Changed
Will There Be a Civil Society in the Xi Jinping Era? Advocacy and Non-Profit Organising in the New Regime
Covid among
From Green Shoots to Crushed Petals
Anyuan
Minjian
Alternative Publications, Spaces and Publics
Cultural production in the working-class resistance
Migrant Workers Home and its practices on shaping the culture and community of ‘New Working Class’
Staying with the Trouble
Mobilizing without the Masses
Building their Own Stage
Sustainability of independent community archives in China
State Repression of Chinese Labor NGOs
Who Makes the City? Beijing's Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation
New Workers’ Culture
China's digital working class and circuits of labor
China's Overseas NGO Law and the Future of International Civil Society
Suspension
Specialization of the rural
Dead zones of the imagination
The Park Pass
Class and Precarity
Rural revitalization, scholars, and the dynamics of the collective future in China
The end of alternatives? Capitalist transformation, rural activism and the politics of possibility in China
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |