Social factory as prosaic state space

Redefining labour in China's mass innovation/mass entrepreneurship campaign

Bibliographic Data

ID4140967
AuthorsJune Wang (0000-0002-5468-6066, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Kowloon, Hong Kong), Yujing Tan (0000-0001-9374-9579, Universiteit Leiden Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume52
Issue3
Pages510-531
Publication date2020-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0308518x19889633
OpenAlexW2992901493
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited70

This study examines China's mass innovation/mass entrepreneurship campaign, with particular attention to the community of maker-entrepreneurs in the new techno-political ordering of society and their social territories. This raises the question of the subject-making of maker-entrepreneurs on a massive scale through what we call the new education-incubatory assemblage. How does the new education-incubatory machine assemble a new participatory community, form a production-communications-consumption circuit to imagine the new economy and re-territorialise the techno-political ordering of society? Our study stresses two differences in the social factory. First, by forging a fragmented pattern of production and an individualised society, mass entrepreneurship emphasises social networking. The exploitation of social relations in production has been brought to the foreground. Second, a participatory mass is not only shaped by the new mentality, but also constitutive of the very formation of the new mentality. Such a mass is a collection of actors, from the government, cooperatives, start-ups and individuals. In addition, their agencies vary, from those with a more reified form of power, such as policy, to the mundane, unrehearsed actions of individuals. This process entails the reconfiguration of political apparatus and bio-political power

China · Economic system · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Factory (object-oriented programming) · Government (linguistics) · Mass line · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Law

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