Hizi, Gil (2021). ZHENG NENGLIANG AND PEDAGOGIES OF AFFECT IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA. Soc. Anal., 65 (1). S. 23 - 44. BROOKLYN: BERGHAHN JOURNALS. ISSN 1558-5727
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This article examines the role of affect in market-driven self-cultivation. Drawing on a study of extracurricular workshops for interpersonal skills in urban China, I describe programs that prioritize momentary excitement, associated with the state-endorsed colloquialism zheng nengliang (positive energy), while distinguishing this experience from the common registers of the exterior world. I define these settings as 'pedagogies of affect', activities that bring to the fore the short-lived and indeterminant attributes of affect without coherently serving discursive ideologies in trajectories of social engineering or neoliberal governmentality. This phenomenon demonstrates how the expansion of market-driven expertise for 'person-making' to new social groups globally reinforces ethical disjunctures between different social domains, as well as between individuals' practical and aspirational pursuits.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-566356 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.3167/sa.2021.650102 | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Soc. Anal. | ||||||||
| Volume: | 65 | ||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 23 - 44 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | BERGHAHN JOURNALS | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | BROOKLYN | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1558-5727 | ||||||||
| Language: | English | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56635 |
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