Claiming Homes
Claiming Homes
Summary
Explores how `care', defined as `work done on behalf of others', allows villagers to forge belonging and stake claims over the locality, its values, and each other, in defiance of the social exclusion projected by China's politics of place and localization of class.
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Claiming Homes by Charlotte Bruckermann
Chinese citizens make themselves at home despite economic transformation, political rupture, and domestic dislocation in the contemporary countryside. By mobilizing labor and kinship to make claims over homes, people, and things, rural residents withstand devaluation and confront dispossession. As a particular configuration of red capitalism and socialist sovereignty takes root, this process challenges the relationship between the politics of place and the location of class in China and beyond.“Bruckermann provides a nuanced examination of the dynamics of gender, generation and class in Shanxi provinceThe ethnography is detailed and compelling.” • Andrew B. Kipnis, University of Hong Kong
“An excellent, pioneering analysis… I strongly recommend it.” • Stephan Feuchtwang, London School of Economics
Charlotte Bruckermann currently works in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. Her publications include a book co-written with Stephan Feuchtwang The Anthropology of China: China as Ethnographic and Theoretical Critique (2016, Imperial College Press), and various articles and chapters on environment, kinship, housing, care, morality, and ritual.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781789203578 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789203570 |
| Title | Claiming Homes |
| Author | Charlotte Bruckermann |
| Series | Dislocations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2019-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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