scholarly journals “No CCP, No New China”: Pastoral Power in Official Narratives in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 784-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoling Zhang ◽  
Melissa Shani Brown ◽  
David O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Use Of Force ◽  
The State ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approaches ◽  
Pastoral Role ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ◽  
Regional Capital ◽  
Core Role ◽  
Power And Authority

AbstractGuided by Michel Foucault's concept of “pastoral power,” this article examines the ways in which contemporary discourses within official narratives in China portray the state in a paternal fashion to reinforce its legitimacy. Employing interdisciplinary approaches, this article explores a number of sites in Urumqi, the regional capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), in order to map how a coherent official narrative of power and authority is created and reinforced across different spaces and texts. It demonstrates how both history and the present day are depicted in urban Xinjiang in order to portray the state in a pastoral role that legitimates its use of force, as well as emphasizing its core role in developing the region out of poverty and into “civilization.”

scholarly journals A Failure in ‘Designed Citizenship’: A Case Study in a Minority-Han Merger School in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIN YI
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Primary School ◽  
The State ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Productive Force ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

AbstractDrawing upon the theses of State racism (Michel Foucault), homo sacer (Giorgio Agamben), and safe citizenship (Cynthia Weber), and fieldwork data collected from a multiethnic primary school in Xinjiang, this paper examines the way in which the state agencies of the local government, the school and mainstream citizens design citizenship for Uyghurs, and how Uyghurs interpret and act upon their citizenship. The findings show why, and how, designed citizenship by the mainstream system for Uyghurs has failed to produce a desirably productive force for the prosperity of both the Uyghur community and society at large. The findings require re-consideration of what could be a win-win citizenship for both the state and the citizen.

New Pennsylvanian (Moscovian) crinoids from the Qijiagou Formation, Taoshigo Valley, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Western China

Palaeoworld ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
G.D. Webster ◽  
Johnny A. Waters ◽  
Zhuo-Ting Liao ◽  
Christopher G. Maples
Keyword(s):  
Western China ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

Language ideologies in a Uyghur comedy sketch: the comedy sketch Chüshenmidim ‘I don’t understand’ and the importance of Sap Uyghur

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (248) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giulia Cabras
Keyword(s):  
Language Ideologies ◽  
National Government ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Language Practices ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Han Population ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Intellectual Discourse ◽  
Standard Chinese ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

AbstractUyghur, a Turkic language spoken mostly in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China, is at present undergoing changes in usage. The spread of Standard Chinese promoted by the national government and the growing Han population are contributing to the Sinicization of Uyghur and shaping new language practices. Language-related issues are therefore a common topic in the Uyghur community, in intellectual discourse as well as in daily conversation. This article analyses a Uyghur comedy sketch entitled

The Impact of Environmental Pollution on Ethnic Unrest in Xinjiang: A Uyghur Perspective

Modern China ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 504-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nimrod Baranovitch
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Han Chinese ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
Mass Migration ◽  
Ethnic Tension ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region ◽  
The Impact

Since the early 1990s, the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region has been one of the most restive areas in China, and in recent years, following the July 2009 Urumchi riots, it has experienced frequent incidents of severe ethnic violence. A large body of scholarship has attempted to explain the sources of Uyghur discontent and pointed to various factors, including cultural and religious repression, unemployment, discrimination, and the mass migration of Han Chinese settlers into the region. This article proposes that environmental degradation, a factor that so far has received little attention in the research that focuses on ethnic tension in Xinjiang, is another important contributing factor. Focusing on air and water pollution in Xinjiang, but also addressing other types of environmental degradation, the article examines the attitudes of Uyghurs toward the phenomenon and shows how their perceptions have affected and been affected by their tense relationship with the Chinese government and the Han Chinese settlers in the region.

scholarly journals Of Shepherds, Sheep and Sheepdogs? Governing the Adherent Self through Complementary and Competing ‘Pastorates’

Sociology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 1069-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Waring ◽  
Asam Latif
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
The State ◽  
Medicine Use ◽  
Relational Practices ◽  
Dynamic View ◽  
Pastoral Power ◽  
The Government ◽  
Alternative Discourses

Foucault’s concept of ‘pastoral power’ describes an important technique for constituting obedient subjects. Derived from his analysis of the Christian pastorate, he saw pastoral power as a prelude to contemporary technologies of governing ‘beyond the State’, where ‘experts’ shepherd self-governing subjects. However, the specific practices of modern pastorate have been little developed. This article examines the relational practices of pastoral power associated with the government of medicine use within the English healthcare system. The study shows how multiple pastors align their complementary and variegated practices to conduct behaviours, but also how pastors compete for legitimacy, and face resistance through the mobilisation of alternative discourses and the strategic exploitation of pastoral competition. The article offers a dynamic view of the modern pastorate within the contemporary assemblages of power.

Taken lives matter: open justice and recognition in inquests into deaths at the hands of the state

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
Use Of Force ◽  
Procedural Fairness ◽  
The State ◽  
Recognition Theory ◽  
Opening Up

AbstractLord Neuberger describes open justice as a procedural principle requiring that ‘what goes on in court and what a court decides is open to scrutiny’ (Neuberger, 2011). The prime rationale given for this principle is that it is a safety check on procedural fairness. Such a conception of open justice applies on only a superficial level in inquests into use-of-force deaths at the hands of the state. This paper examines the practice of, and rationales behind, opening up use-of-force deaths at the hands of the state to scrutiny through inquests. They suggest a primarily intrinsic rather than instrumental link between openness and inquests’ purposes, which requires a reframing of traditional conceptions of open justice in this context. It is further argued that recognition theory can provide the normative link between openness and justice in these circumstances – a link that is implicit in the term ‘open justice’ but rarely explored in inquests.

scholarly journals The Problem of State Violence

Daedalus ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 151 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-37
Author(s):  
Paul Butler
Keyword(s):  
Use Of Force ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Abuse And Neglect ◽  
The Future ◽  
State Actors

Abstract When violence occurs, the state has an obligation to respond to and reduce the impacts of it; yet often the state originates, or at least contributes to, the violence. This may occur in a variety of ways, including through the use of force by police, pretrial incarceration at local jails, long periods of incarceration in prisons, or abuse and neglect of people who are incarcerated. This essay explores the role of the state in responding to violence and how it should contribute to reducing violence in communities, as well as in its own operations. Finally, it explores what the future of collaboration between state actors and the community looks like and offers examples of successful power-sharing and co-producing of safety between the state and the public.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document