中研院民族所

講者 Susanne Brandtstädter (Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway)
日期及時間 2014年5月5日（星期一） 14:30pm~16:30pm
地點 中研院民族所舊館三樓第一會議室
摘要 In this paper, I analyze the political poetics – the distinct political style and strategies – of contemporary peasant lawyers and rural resistance experts in China to argue that they resemble a political trickster: a political actor who exploits the ambiguities of “governing through law” (fazhi) in order to expose systematic administrative abuse, who subverts authority through an ironic take on state discourse, and who defies categorization by uniting moral and political opposites in one person. I argue that irony has developed as a resistive genre in post-Maoist China because it is a highly effective way of revealing and criticizing the self-referential nature of slogan politics as political betrayal in post-Maoist China. Rather than being simply a strategic adaptation to a repressive state, such political trickery can deflect state power and at the same time reveal the gap between ideals and reality – a gap in which politics proper can arise.

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