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Showing papers by "Thomas Heberer published in 2014"


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TL;DR: In 2013, China's new party and state leadership specified its domestic and foreign policies in the context of Xi Jinping's vision of the Chinese Dream as mentioned in this paper, and a new reform package modifying China's growth and development model has been announced.
Abstract: In 2013, China’s new party and state leadership specified its domestic and foreign policies in the context of Xi Jinping’s vision of the “Chinese Dream” A new reform package modifying China’s growth and development model has been announced In foreign policy, a debate has commenced regarding another side of the “Chinese Dream”: China’s rise as a “Great Power”

19 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the state's efforts to promote its agenda and "civilizing mission", the resistance of local Yi people to both, and the resulting clash of discourses on environmental protection.
Abstract: During field research on environmental governance in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in 2012, the author studied the Chinese state's efforts to promote its agenda and “civilizing mission,” the resistance of local Yi people to both, and the resulting clash of discourses on environmental protection. To understand the nature and mechanisms involved in this conflict, the author focuses on the state's “civilizing mission” in light of Foucault's power concept. The article examines two issues: 1) the strategies by which the central state exerts power and asserts its policies in a minority area, i.e. how it attempts to steer the behaviour of local cadres in order to implement its modernization concept, and 2) whether and to what degree it makes a difference that the researched area is a “minority” (Yi) area. To answer these questions, one county in the prefecture was taken as a case study. Furthermore, this article continuously refers to the policy field of environmental governance to substantiate the thesis of a civilizing project conducted by the centre.

14 citations