Political Discourse in Chinese Urban Community: Pragmatic Utility and Ideological Fatigue

IF 2.4 2区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES Journal of Contemporary China Pub Date : 2022-09-20 DOI:10.1080/10670564.2022.2124355
Yang Zheng, Jieren Hu
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ABSTRACT China’s urban community is an important venue to examine the function of political discourse. Drawing on the theory of strategic action field, this article regards community as a field where officials act as incumbents, citizens as challengers, and the political discourse as an internal governance unit. The empirical data from multiple cities demonstrates that political discourses have facilitated the incumbents with several pragmatic utilities such as assuring the state’s dominance, mobilizing citizens’ participation, and disciplining residents’ regular behaviors. Meanwhile, these discourses have met the problem of ideological fatigue. Local officials’ hypocritical identification and citizens’ disguised conformity disenable the Party-state to win recognition from both citizens and officials. The findings of this article enrich the current study of political discourse with a new perspective.
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中国城市社区的政治话语:实用功利与意识形态疲劳
摘要中国城市社区是考察政治话语功能的重要场所。本文借鉴战略行动场理论,将社区视为一个官员作为在位者、公民作为挑战者、政治话语作为内部治理单元的领域。来自多个城市的实证数据表明,政治话语为在职者提供了一些实用的工具,如确保国家主导地位、动员公民参与和约束居民的常规行为。同时,这些话语也遇到了意识形态疲劳的问题。地方官员虚伪的身份认同和公民的变相从众,使党国无法赢得公民和官员的认同。本文的研究成果为当前政治话语研究提供了一个新的视角。
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期刊介绍: Journal of Contemporary China is the only English language journal edited in North America that provides exclusive information about contemporary Chinese affairs for scholars, businessmen and government policy-makers. It publishes articles of theoretical and policy research and research notes, as well as book reviews. The journal"s fields of interest include economics, political science, law, culture, literature, business, history, international relations, sociology and other social sciences and humanities.
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