459 - Thematic Session. Social Protests in China

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This panel examines the major types of social protest and their interaction with the Chinese authoritarian state. Analyzing the internal dynamics and political economy of labor, land and environmental protests, we ask: are these popular mobilizations instances of class formation? Do they insinuate new organizations and imaginations of Chinese citizenship? Are protests a force of social change in China? What do Chinese protests imply for theories of social movement and political sociology?

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA

Presider

• Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA

Panelists

• Eli David Friedman, Cornell University

• Manjusha S. Nair, National University of Singapore

• Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant

• Dingxin Zhao, University of Chicago