Disaggregating the State: Networks and Collective Resistance in Shanghai
In: The China Quarterly, Vol 186, 2006, pp. 314-332
Study of Shanghai home owners’ resistance that suggests that fragmentation of state power at local level provides opportunities for resistance, and that its success may be helped by social networks between participants in collective action and officials or media workers. See also Fayong, Shi , Social Capital and Collective Resistance in Urban China Neighborhoods: a comunity movement in Shanghai [3] Singapore, Dept of Sociology, National University of Singapore, , 2004, pp. 43 , online.
Available online as PDF at:
http://china.praguesummerschools.org/files/china/13china2012.pdf [4]