Wing-Chung Ho

Occupational health and social estrangement in China (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book concerns the post-illness experiences of about a hundred occupationally sick workers who suffer from the incurable diseases of pneumoconiosis or heavy metal poisoning in contemporary China. In exploring their struggles and conflicts in their private and social lives, at and away from home, the author hopes to show how the sufferers structure their own lives, their freedoms, rights, and constraints, and how they think and feel about their actions of acquiescence, compromise, resistance, and protest within the existing power relations. Informed by a framework that connects governmentality and the lifeworld of the victim, the books endeavors to shed new empirical and theoretical light on how the socially marginalized encounter and understand domination in everyday life in the specific context of China now and in the foreseeable future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526113641
• Artikelnr.: 57471910

Autorenporträt

Wing-Chung Ho is Associate Professor at Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Series editor's foreword Maps Part I: Life in perspective 1. Facts,
theoretical gaze, and journeys 2. Sick workers as homines sacri Part II:
Responses to marginality 3. Cadmium-poisoned women: contesting for sick
role status 4. Pneumoconiosis-afflicted workers: toward rightful resistance
5. Coalminers: the compromising citizenry Part III: Sick life governed 6.
Law as a technique of governmentality 7. The future of Chinese marginality
Appendix References Index