Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-260) and index.
Contents:
The teleology of the state : top-down regional ethnic autonomy -- Performing ethnicity : politics of representation in multi-ethnic Guilin -- Silencing the poor : the statist-liberal incapacity in Western Hunan -- The state as a borderline identity-distancing the Jing ethnicity from Vietnam -- Imagined genealogy : behind the cultural formation of Huishui's Buyi nationality -- Cement or excrement? Autonomous ecological thinking in Xiaoxi's poverty discourse -- 3 + 1 + 1 = 1 : disempowerment in multi-ethnic autonomous Longsheng -- Lost agency for change : the diasporic identity in Yizhou's Shui villages -- Feeling poverty : on the same side of the poor in Baise's Zhuang villages -- Assimilation into Mulao consciousness : the rise of participatory rigor in Luocheng -- Living with the state : multiplying ethnic Yao narratives in Jinxiu -- Learning to be rational : peasants' responses to marketization in Fenghuang -- Conclusion : from unity to harmony-progress or regression?
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