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Article: Migrant worker museums in China: public cultures of migrant labour in state and grassroots initiatives
Title | Migrant worker museums in China: public cultures of migrant labour in state and grassroots initiatives |
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Keywords | Migrant worker representation cultural politics labour political economy |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369183X.asp |
Citation | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2020, Epub 2020-04-07 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper offers a comparative investigation of two rural migrant workers museums, one state-run in Shenzhen and another grassroots project in the suburbs of Beijing. We take museums as institutions of the politics of recognition and identity politics par excellence, and as fields of forces through which the matrices of political economy, state formation and popular culture are played out. The theoretical problematiques that frame our analyses are twofold. On the one hand, what are the ways in which the post-Mao political economy and socioeconomic changes are represented in the symbolic rituals enacted in the museums? On the other hand, how such representational schemes cast light on issues of labour, technologies of the self, and the collective identity of migrant workers? We argue that the Shenzhen Museum, albeit providing idealising and heroizing portrays of migrant workers, reifies a development- and market-centred view of the city that is deliberately oblivious to the structural roots of migrant marginality. In contrast, the Beijing Museum offers a powerful counternarrative to the centrality of capital logic. By prioritising migrants’ lived experiences of labouring and living, it underscores claims for fair evaluation of migrant labour, welfare protection, dignity of labouring bodies, and collective voice and identity. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/287975 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.348 |
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dc.contributor.author | Qian, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | Florence, E | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-05T12:05:59Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-05T12:05:59Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2020, Epub 2020-04-07 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1369-183X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/287975 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper offers a comparative investigation of two rural migrant workers museums, one state-run in Shenzhen and another grassroots project in the suburbs of Beijing. We take museums as institutions of the politics of recognition and identity politics par excellence, and as fields of forces through which the matrices of political economy, state formation and popular culture are played out. The theoretical problematiques that frame our analyses are twofold. On the one hand, what are the ways in which the post-Mao political economy and socioeconomic changes are represented in the symbolic rituals enacted in the museums? On the other hand, how such representational schemes cast light on issues of labour, technologies of the self, and the collective identity of migrant workers? We argue that the Shenzhen Museum, albeit providing idealising and heroizing portrays of migrant workers, reifies a development- and market-centred view of the city that is deliberately oblivious to the structural roots of migrant marginality. In contrast, the Beijing Museum offers a powerful counternarrative to the centrality of capital logic. By prioritising migrants’ lived experiences of labouring and living, it underscores claims for fair evaluation of migrant labour, welfare protection, dignity of labouring bodies, and collective voice and identity. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369183X.asp | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | - |
dc.rights | Preprint: This is an Author's Original Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/[Article DOI]. Postprint: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/[Article DOI]. | - |
dc.subject | Migrant worker | - |
dc.subject | representation | - |
dc.subject | cultural politics | - |
dc.subject | labour | - |
dc.subject | political economy | - |
dc.title | Migrant worker museums in China: public cultures of migrant labour in state and grassroots initiatives | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Qian, J: jxqian@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Qian, J=rp02246 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1739373 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85083583739 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 314923 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | Epub 2020-04-07 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 19 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1469-9451 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000526480800001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1369-183X | - |