Outsourcing Repression Lynette H. Ong

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019762877X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0197628775
• Author(s): Lynette H. Ong

A compelling examination of and counterintuitive solution to China’s engagement of nonstate actors to coerce citizens into compliance while minimizing backlash against the state. How do states coerce citizens into compliance while simultaneously minimizing backlash? In Outsourcing Repression, Lynette H. Ong examines how the Chinese state engages nonstate actors, from violent street gangsters to nonviolent grassroots brokers, to coerce and mobilize the masses for state pursuits, while reducing costs and minimizing resistance. She draws on ethnographic research conducted annually from 2011 to 2019–the years from Hu Jintao to Xi Jinping, a unique and original event dataset, and a collection of government regulations in a study of everyday land grabs and housing demolition in China. Theorizing a counterintuitive form of repression that reduces resistance and backlash, Ong invites the reader to reimagine the new ground state power credibly occupies. Everyday state power is quotidian power acquired through society by penetrating nonstate territories and mobilizing the masses within. Ong uses China’s urbanization scheme as a window of observation to explain how the arguments can be generalized to other country contexts.

Table contents:

1 Bulldozers, Violent Thugs, and Nonviolent Brokers
2 The Theory: State Power, Repression, and Implications for Development
3 Outsourcing Violence: Everyday Repression via Thugs-for-Hire
4 Case Studies: Thugs-for-Hire, Repression, and Mobilization
5 Networks of State Infrastructural Power: Brokerage, State Penetration, and Mobilization
6 Brokers in Harmonious Demolition: Mass Mobilizers, Mediators, and Huangniu
7 Comparative Context: South Korea and India
8 Conclusion
Appendices
Appendix A: Content Analysis of Government Regulations
Appendix B: List of Interviewees
Appendix C: Media-Sourced Event Dataset
Appendix D: Additional Tables and Graphs for Chapter 3
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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