Mobilizing without the Masses

书名：Mobilizing without the MassesControlandContentioninChina
作者：DianaFu
译者：
ISBN：9781108420549
出版社：CambridgeUniversityPress
出版时间：2017-11-9
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：193
豆瓣评分： 6.8

书籍简介：

When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political ethnography inside both legal and blacklisted labor organizations in China, this book reveals how state repression is deployed on the ground and to what effect on mobilization. It presents a novel dynamic of civil society contention – mobilizing without the masses – that lowers the risk of activism under duress. Instead of facilitating collective action, activists coach the aggrieved to challenge authorities one by one. In doing so, they lower the risks of organizing while empowering the weak. This dynamic represents a third pathway of contention that challenges conventional understandings of mobilization in an illiberal state. It takes readers inside the world of underground labor organizing and opens the black box of repression inside the world's most powerful authoritarian state.

作者简介：

Diana Fu is Assistant Professor of Asian Politics at the University of Toronto. This book builds upon her dissertation research at the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Previously, she was a Walter H. Shorenstein Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, California and a pre-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research has been supported by the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation, and the Rhodes Trust. Her academic articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies, Governance, and Modern China, among others. Her writing and research have appeared in The Economist, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, The Boston Review, PostGlobal, and Nicholas Kristof's 'On the Ground' Blog for The New York Times.

书友短评：

@ 青晨 正如标题讲的Mobilizing without Masses需要完成Mobilization和without masses两个任务。Diana可以在写作中对casing和framing的利用，来插入organizations在state-individual relationship的作用，全篇其实还是在讲dynamic interaction这个经典话题，只不过有state给予的条件，又有individuals的需求，所以有一个新的theoretical contribution，即处于collective action 和the weapon of weak中间的灰色地带。参看Diana的publications，她更熟练的是state and civil society而非微观组织。 @ 达伦终结者 书名针对下篇，讨论在劳工缺乏有效利益集体代表组织时如何通过法外手段实现诉求。作者讨论了微观集体行动、个体化行动、离散性行动三种策略，并将之视为认可国家权力下具有民主自由政治诉求的反权威统治行动。并预测“没有大众的动员”最终走向大众动员以及国家在“维稳”中成本和难度的几何级数上升。上篇讨论了这一套策略的宏观背景：地方有关民间组织和机构的碎片化管理以及对于“地上”组织的收编与合作，导致“地下”组织既有生存空间又饱受打压的状态。作者结论指出这一没有大众的动员是有律师为代表的激进团体与个人隐秘组织的结果。工人集体意识的觉醒使得政府控制难度增加。遗憾则是没有将工人集体意识的启发与革命时期意识形态宣传关联，未能看到革命/改革之间的断裂背反，也就未能将工人抗争对权威体制道德和意识形态正当性的消耗。 @ Bubble Noodle 一言难尽，我多么希望这是一项做得很好的研究。但翻完整本书感觉看她的”Disguised Collective Action”( 写作很流畅，文献部分比较扼要，还是在传统的contentious politics里伸展，但是从组织的层面去分析抗争的作品相对来说应当是最少的，乍一看这本书的批评很多，都挺harsh @ 达伦终结者 挺无聊的，陈峰的工作或许更有参考价值 @ Bubble Noodle ？

　　Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics(共40册)，这套丛书还有《Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe》《Social Movements and Organization Theory》《Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Postcommunist Countries》《Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America》《States, Parties, and Social Movements》等。

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