July 14, 2014 (Monday) 12:15-12:50<\/p>\n
Waseda University: Waseda Campus :19th building 7F Room No.713<\/p>\n
WIAPS Full-time Faculty\/Research Associates, WIAPS Exchange Researchers\/Visiting Scholars\/Visiting Researchers, GSAPS MA\/PhD Students<\/p>\n
Seio Nakajima (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University)<\/p>\n
Re-imagining Civil Society in Contemporary Urban China: Actor-Network-Theory and Chinese Independent Film Consumption<\/p>\n
Extending recent seminal studies that focus on networks of multiple actors in Chinese civil society instead of state-society dichotomy, this presentation explores independent film consumption in contemporary urban China. It shows how a collective entity composed of independent films, people, and discourses is assembled to become civil society, despite the continuing existence of government restrictions on independently produced films. Relying on data collected through ethnography set in the capital city of Beijing, I use the \u201cthree moves\u201d suggested by Bruno Latour\u2019s recent description of Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) to follow the actors themselves. I first \u201clocalize the global\u201d concept of civil society and its attendant notion of state-society relations by discussing an independently organized film festival in which I participated and observed. Second, by discussing an empirical case of DVD stores, through which independent films circulate, I \u201credistribute the local\u201d by detailing the processes in which particular local sites of the retail spaces of DVDs are connected to \u201cactants\u201d dispatched throughout the globe. Finally, I \u201cconnect sites\u201d by putting to work the conceptual tools provided by Latour including \u201cconnectors,\u201d \u201cmediators,\u201d and \u201cplasma.\u201d I conclude by arguing that ANT contributes to a seemingly modest, but essential political task of preventing the hasty closure of what is to be included in the collective, as well as how the collective is to be composed. In the case I examine, ANT clears the path for the future reassembling of civil society in contemporary urban China.<\/p>\n
*This presentation is based on Seio Nakajima. 2013. \u201cRe-imagining Civil Society in Contemporary Urban China: Actor-Network-Theory and Chinese Independent Film Consumption.\u201d Qualitative Sociology 36: 383-402.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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