Eating the rice bowl of youth
Xiaojies'everyday Self-Practices as Doing Citizenship From the Margins
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4524944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yu Ding (0000-0002-0758-9706, Sun Yat-sen University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 842-859 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2017.1353743 |
| OpenAlex | W2739371765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 35 |
The Chinese term ‘eating the rice bowl of youth’ means doing jobs that emphasize youth, body, appearance, and gender instead of solid knowledge. For xiaojies who bear stigma both as female rural-to-urban migrants and as prostitutes, how to eat it becomes not only a matter concerning survival in the Pearl River Delta’s complicated sex industry but also a discursive means of self-transformation and doing citizenship. I argue that such self-practices in the everyday are the main site for them to gain, not the entitlement and rights associated with specific citizenship statuses and policies, but a positive experience that may generate symbolic emotional significance in the process. It leads us to reconceptualize citizenship as multilayered, dynamic, desire-driven and action-oriented boundary-crossing practices
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |