Migrant Workers Home and its practices on shaping the culture and community of ‘New Working Class’: a criticism on cultural-political activism in contemporary China

Jia, Kuo

doi:10.1080/09502386.2017.1374426

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“…By applying the semiotic approach towards urban environments, scholars use collecting data in the form of notes and photographs [9], principles of dichotomy in a system of signs [15,28], Roland Barthes' punctum/stadium dialectic [11], principles of structural anthropology [13], meaning-making, and identities analysis [14]. By using a social criticism-based approach towards urban settlements and fabrics, scholars criticize a city government that neglects its public mandate [12], the political sources of tensions in workers homes [38], and the inactivity of city government towards urban sprawl [39].…”

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Urban (Un)Sustainability: Cases of Vilnius’s Informal and Illegal Settings

Kačerauskas

2018

Sustainability

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The current analysis addresses cases of both informal and illegal settlements in Vilnius, Lithuania. By using semiotic means (specifically, semiotic squares), the author presents the Romani district (tabors), as well the Šnipiškės district, describing the circumstances of their emerging and comparing these cases. In addition to that, the philosophical questions about the dichotomies ‘formal/informal’, ‘temporal/eternal’, ‘order/chaos’, ‘legal/illegal’, ‘sustainable/unsustainable’ are discussed. On the one hand, illegal buildings serve as a signal about too high a barrier of bureaucracy, about a surfeit of law and even about the violation of certain rights. On the other hand, some urban districts can become illegal because of a changed urban vision reflected in a new General Plan. The paper also analyzes the issue of public interest. Additionally, the tendency of democratic society to turn into bureaucratic society is analyzed. The paper addresses sensitive issues related to sustainable development of cities, intercultural dialogue and equal opportunities.

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Urban (Un)Sustainability: Cases of Vilnius’s Informal and Illegal Settings

Kačerauskas

2018

Sustainability

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Cultural production in the working-class resistance: labour activism, gender politics, and solidarities

Yin

2019

Cultural Studies

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Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China

Yang

2024

Media, Culture & Society

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This article explores the progressive potential of commercial industry-oriented channels (IoCs), an emerging form of media produced by and addressed to workers of specific industries, on China’s digital platforms. Juxtaposing textual analysis with worker-audience interviews and participant observation, I found that despite the collusion of state surveillance and platform governance, IoCs prove instrumental in fostering resistive labour subjects and collectives among ordinary workers. This is due to IoCs’ genre convention and discourses, but more importantly, to worker-audience’s bitter and precarious structure of feeling that mediates their collective reception processes. The findings complicate our understanding of the potential of media/cultural production for labour resistance, highlighting the role of worker-audience in the circuit of progressive labour culture and the potential of commercial media in fostering radical class subjects. Drawing on the analysis, I further advance a model of worker media as double articulation, to open up more hermeneutic and action space for cultural labour activism.

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Migrant Workers Home and its practices on shaping the culture and community of ‘New Working Class’: a criticism on cultural-political activism in contemporary China

Cited by 7 publications

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Urban (Un)Sustainability: Cases of Vilnius’s Informal and Illegal Settings

Urban (Un)Sustainability: Cases of Vilnius’s Informal and Illegal Settings

Cultural production in the working-class resistance: labour activism, gender politics, and solidarities

Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China

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