Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China

by Christof Lammer

Polarizing images of authoritarian, socialist or culturalist otherness compromise analyses of the Chinese state. Still, such images produce effects beyond academia when they inform performances of the boundaries between state and non-state. This book shows how performative boundary work leads to contrasting judgements that decide about support and access to resources. In an ecological village in Sichuan, citizen participation in food networks and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 180539651X
• ISBN13: 9781805396512
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"