3:00 pm - Thursday, May 9

Talk: Mobilizing Without the Masses in China

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When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do? When activists are detained for coordinating protests, are their hands ultimately tied? Based on political ethnography inside both legal and illegal labor organizations in China, Diana Fu from the University of Toronto reveals how state repression is deployed on the ground and to what effect on mobilization.

Fu's award-winning book presents a novel dynamic of civil society contention ? mobilizing without the masses ? that lowers the risk of activism under duress. This dynamic represents a third pathway of contention that challenges conventional understandings of mobilization in an illiberal state

Admission/Cost: FREE

Location:
School of Global Policy and Strategy
Classroom 3202
U.C. San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093
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Thursday, May 9 - 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM