The flight to rights: 1990s China and Beyond

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Volumn 2010, Issue 151, 2010, Pages 87-104

  Karl, Rebecca E ^a  

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EID: 79956172312     PISSN: 00906514     EISSN: 1940459X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3817/0610151087     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Elisabeth Bumiller, "Sometimes a Book is Indeed Just a Book. But When?" New York Times, January 23,2006.
2. Seumus Milne, "Communism may be dead, but clearly not dead enough," The Guardian (UK), February 16, 2006.
3. Rey Chow, Woman and Chinese Modernity (Minneapolis: Univ. of Mnnesota Press, 1991), p. 25.
4. This phrase is borrowed and adapted from Peter Osborne's reflections on the state of philosophy in the post-Kantian world. See Osborne, Philosophy in Cultural Theory (New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 3.
5. The above two paragraphs are adapted from Rebecca E. Karl, "Culture, Revolution, and the Times of History: Mao Zedong and 20th Century China," China Quarterly 187 (Fall 2006): 693-99.
6. Mark Neocleous, imagining the State (Berkshire: Open UP, 2003), p. 71.
7. Ernst Bloch "Aporias and the Heritage of the Tricolor," in Natural law and human Dignity, trans. Dennis J. Schmidt (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), p. 155.
8. In his discussion of Carl Schmitt's "decisionism," Ernst Bloch makes this important distinction. See "Death and Semblance of Life of a Late-Bourgeois Natural Law," in Bloch, Natural law and human Dignity, p. 150.
9. Andrew Norris, "The Exemplary Exception: Philosophical and Political Decisions in Giogio Agamben's homo Sacer," Radical Philosophy 119 (May/June 2003): 10.
10. Although, in China, there seems to be better than average awareness of the global pressures producing certain kinds of privatizations and other sorts of property rights issues. See, for instance, Wang Hui, "Restructuring and the Historical Fate of China's Working Class: A Report on an Investigation into the Tongyu Textile Group of Jiangsu," Critical asian Studies 40 (2008): 163-209.
11. Lin Chun, The Transformation of Chinese Socialism (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2006), chap. 4.
12. Ching Kwan Lee, against the law: labor Protests in China 's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2007).
13. Hannah Arendt, on Revolution (New York: Penguin, 2006).
14. Mark Neocleous, The Monstrous and the Dead: Burke, Marx, Fascism (Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press, 2005), p. 99.
15. Bloch, "Death and Semblance of Life," p. 151.
16. For the retrieval of the AMP as a positivity in China, see Rebecca E. Karl, "The Asiatic Mode of Production: National and Comparative Imperial Formations," Historein 5 (2005). This version is also reflected in numerous recent high-octane films and TV series about the Qin Shi Huangdi, by Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, and others.
17. Aihwa Ong, Neoliberalism as exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2006), p. 3.
18. Randy Martin, american War and the Financial logic of Risk Management (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2007), p. 47.
19. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and economic origins of our Time (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1957), p. 29.
20. Peter Osborne, "Marx and the Philosophy of Time," Radical Philosophy 147 (2008): 16.
21. For a trenchant critique of the turn to Schmitt as a theorist of crisis, see Mark Neocleous, "Friend or Enemy? Reading Schmitt Politically," Radical Philosophy 79 (1996): 13-23.
22. Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty, trans. George Schwab (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 1988), p. 5.
23. See Neocleous, "Friend or enemy?" p. 15.
24. See, for example, Charles Taylor's ubiquitously cited text Multiculturalism: examining the Politics of Recognition, 2nd edition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1994).
25. It is, in a negative sense, what Habermas positively identifies as the possibility for "world citizenship" (Weltbürger) through the mechanism of expanding the European model. See Nectarios Limnatis, "Globalization and Modern Philosophy," Radical Philosophy 119 (2003): 29.
26. Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007).
27. For a critique of Harvey that takes up a similar issue, see Iain Boal and Michael Watts, "The Liberal International," Radical Philosophy 140 (2006): 40-45.
28. Greg Grandin, empire's Workshop: latin america, the United States, and the Rise of the New imperialism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006).
29. See Neocleous, imagining the State, pp. 78ff., for a cogent argument about the "personification of capital."
30. Polanyi, The Great Transformation, p. 20.