Strangers in the City: Reconfigurations of Space, Power, and Social Networks Within China's Floating Population

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Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgments Table of Contents Introduction 1. The Floating Population as Subjects Naming and Categorizing Mobile People The Production of Discourse About the Floating Population Regulating Migrant Subjects Through Everyday Practices Resisting Subjectification Conclusion 2. Commercial Culture, Social Networks, and Migration Passages Commercial Culture and the Wenzhou Spirit Migration Passages The Formation of Zhejiangcun 3. The Privatization of Space Under the Roofs of Local Farmers Dayuan: A Space of Their Own Spatial Inscription of Marginality and Liminality The Formation of Space as a Social Process 4. The Privatization of Power Local Order and the Politics of Popular Organizations Migrant Leadership and Local Power Dynamics Conclusion 5. Reconfigurations of Gender, Work, and Household “Household” as a Flexible Social Field Middle- and Lower-Income Households Wealthy Households The Predicament of Working Girls Coping Tactics and Everyday Resistance Conclusion 6. Contesting Crime and Order Crime and Representation An Ethnography of Crime and Its Origins Conclusion 7. The Demolition of Zhejiangcun Panic and Social Conflict on the Eve of the Demolition The Motivations The Campaign Mobilization Unpacking the State Popular Resistance Native-Place Alliances The Demolition 8. Displacement and Revitalization Coping with Relocation Migrant Leadership at Work “New Bottle, Old Wine” Closer Collaboration or Deeper Control? Conclusion Appendix: Notes on the Conditions and Politics of Fieldwork Notes Glossary References Index