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Social movements in China : Augmenting mainstream theory with guanxi
Qi, Xiaoying
Qi, Xiaoying
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Abstract
An extensive literature on social movements points to the role of social networks in movement recruitment and development. It is anomalous, therefore, that treatments of Chinese social movements seldom acknowledge the importance of guanxi networks. Theories of social movements are typically constructed on the basis of US and European cases and draw upon the intellectual formations of these regions. Through an examination of social movements in contemporary China it is shown that guanxi is not only relevant to the operation of social movements but to our understanding of how social movements are formed and also how they are suppressed and undermined by the state. It will be shown that by theorising social movements in China in terms of guanxi there is scope to augment social network approaches to social movements.
Keywords
collective action, framing, guanxi, repression, social movement, social networks
Date
2017
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Journal article
Journal
Sociology
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Volume
51
Issue
1
Page Range
111-126
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ACU Department
School of Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Published as green open access
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Open
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This record includes an authors accepted manuscript. Qi, Xiaoying, “Social movements in China: Augmenting mainstream theory with guanxi”, Sociology, Vol. 51(1), pp. 111-126. Copyright © 2017 Xiaoying Qi . Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/0038038516656993