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Title: | 'Walled' activism: transnational social movements and the politics of Chinese cyber-public space | Contributor(s): | Zhang, Juan (author); Nyiri, Pal (author) | Publication Date: | 2014 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.3828/idpr.2014.7 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/15977 | Abstract: | This article examines China's cyber-activism in relation to the politics of making a transnational, Chinese public sphere in both the virtual world and real-life locations. By conceptualising Chinese cyber-activism as 'walled' activism, this article describes an invisible yet effective 'wall' constructed through hegemonic affective conditioning to separate those who are within the 'wall' from those on the outside. This 'wall' shields particular types of moral sensibilities, political consciousness and cultural discourse and conditions the ways in which Chinese citizens envision the possibility of engaging in public movements both online and offline, in China and elsewhere. This article argues that while it is possible to forge an 'insurgent' Chinese transnational civil sphere that remakes urban public spaces, this sphere operates largely within the 'walls' of a hegemonic nationalist agenda that promotes China's 'rise' and fends off imaginary enemies, not by the force of an oppressive regime but by the agency and free will of individuals. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | International Development Planning Review, 36(1), p. 111-131 | Publisher: | Liverpool University Press | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1478-3401 1474-6743 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160810 Urban Sociology and Community Studies 200104 Media Studies 200202 Asian Cultural Studies |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 441016 Urban sociology and community studies 470107 Media studies 470202 Asian cultural studies |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940203 Political Systems 940106 Citizenship and National Identity 950204 The Media |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 230203 Political systems 230105 Citizenship and national identity 130204 The media |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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