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| Contents |
The teleology of the state : top-down regional ethnic autonomy -- Performing ethnicity : politics of representation in multi-ethnic Guilin -- Silencing the poor : the statist-liberal incapacity in Western Hunan -- The state as a borderline identity-settling the Jing ethnicity in Dongxing -- Imagined genealogy : behind the cultural formation of Huishui's Buyi -- Cement or excrement? Autonomous ecological thinking in Xiaoxi's poverty discourse -- 3 + 1 + 1 = 1 : disempowerment in multi-ethnic autonomous Longsheng -- Lost agency for change : the diasporic identity in Yizhou's Shui villages -- Feeling poverty : on the same side of the poor in Baise's Zhuang villages -- Riding the citizenship -- Assimilation into Mulao consciousness : the rise of participatory rigor in Luocheng -- Living with the state : multiplying ethnic Yao narratives in Jinxiu -- Learning to be rational : the drive toward marketization in Fenghuang -- Conclusion : from unity to harmony-progress or regression? |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-260) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2007001437 |
| ISBN | 9781403984463 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1403984468 (alk. paper) |
