..., this article frames suzhi jiaoyu as a form of governmentality, dedicated to teaching children the “conduct of conduct” in postsocialist Beijing. Based on ethnographic research conducted in elementary schools, among families, and in public spaces in Beijing, the article focuses on how attempts to define...

...Haiyan Lee Duke University Press 2006 Governmentality and the Aesthetic State: A Chinese Fantasia Haiyan Lee Since Michel Foucault proposed the concept of “governmental rationality” or “governmentality” in a series of lectures in the late 1970s...

... Press . Hardt Michael Negri Antonio . 2009 . Commonwealth . Harvard University Press . Legg Stephen . 2007 . Spaces of Colonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities . New Delhi : Blackwell . Lemke Thomas . 2003 . “ Rechtssubjekt oder Biomasse? Reflexionen zum...

... that is allegedly found among those who rely on governmental welfare schemes. The neoliberal production of a “culture of poverty” indicates contingent processes in which many ordinary people, who experience life insecurity and downward mobility under neoliberal economic transformations, invoke and (re)produce...

..., in purchasing a life insurance policy, freely chose to return to the national community. Life insurance thus highlights the importance of consumer desire and free choice in modern regimes of governmentality. Postal life insurance also helps draw connections between issues of governmentality and labor power...

... calls “endurable life” to “liminal life” based on the photographed subject's receptiveness to Cold War racial liberalism and its governmentality. While Mydans's photojournalism of Tule Lake and Yosu-Sunchon precede the outbreak of the Korean War, the article suggests that the photographs of Asians under...

... related to self-management and governmentality that may be at play? This article will explore the shifting idea of beauty and how the Vietnamese state has been using it historically to hegemonize the nation. It will also examine Vietnamese subject formation and subjectivities in the southern urban center...

...Cathy J. Schlund-Vials This essay examines the impact of transnational historical amnesias on Cambodian American genocidal remembrance. Arguing that the “Cambodian syndrome” revises the “Vietnam syndrome” in a manner that legitimizes contemporary US and Cambodian governmental power, this essay...

... and transposed it into Asian values to shore up domestic and international legitimacy. While fulfilling the desire for Oriental purity and assuaging the postcolonial discomfort experienced in hybrid Singapore, Asian values guide the elite in implementing new forms of governmentality for neoliberal globalization...

... of a nominally “socialist” project, but rather in a return to a properly capitalist set of concerns and governmental techniques, the first iteration of which can be traced to the 1920s and 1930s. With regard to the broad set of economic reforms launched in the period 1979–81, it is argued that the one-child...

... power to the biopolitical technologies of modern liberal governmentality, the article demonstrates the continued salience of theatrical sovereignty in the formation of modern democratic imaginaries. Copyright 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Forging a Modern Democratic Imaginary: Police...

... should be men of learning, virtue and ability, must ensure that the community enjoys peace, order and security, leaving individuals free to pursue their affairs without undue governmental interference. In return, the people must impose their full trust and confidence in their rulers, and have cause...

... governmentality.” [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Malayan Emergency Cold War radio cinema propaganda The Malayan Emergency (1948–60) was an early site for Anglo-American Cold War politics in Southeast Asia that relied upon film and radio as a means...

...” ( hexie ) coexistence through new forms of community governance. By investigating the official discourse on community and harmony and the self-representation of middle-class community activists, I will argue that assumptions about middle-class suzhi are essential to three governmental objectives...

... are HIV-positive is the result of a form of pastoral care, or governmentality, on the part of medical and health experts as well as the media. Language use is central to this experience. In response to the positive use of coming out language by experts, those living with HIV/AIDS have challenged...

... for considering how transnational neoliberalism and state socialism have intersected to shape knowledge, governmentality, and everyday cultural practices. We ask, how does the endurance of socialist interpretive frameworks and logics of morality contest or rework neoliberalism and its global modes of regulation...

... corpus of online texts presenting firsthand accounts of bei hecha experiences to explore questions of everyday governance and governmentality in contemporary China. Adopting a text–based approach to matters conventionally pertaining to the realm of political science, it argues for an understanding...

...Malcolm Thompson This article tracks how China’s population came to be practically measurable, not just in terms of its size and distribution but in terms of its dynamics, and how the determination of these dynamics inscribed the population into a broad reorganization of economic governmentality...

... governmental attitudes, similar to that of the Qing governments, under which the history of the Ming Dynasty was a taboo subject, but a symptom of a deep intellectual and political predicament. At the root of the problem...

...” of peasants and rural migrants.12 Both Anagnost and Yan have made major contributions to theorizing suzhi, arguing that it is central to neoliberal governmentality and global capitalism.13 Of particular importance has been their recognition...