Cultural production in the working-class resistance: labour activism, gender politics, and solidarities.
Against the backdrop of China as a seemingly ideal model to justify and normalize capitalist globalization, this article seeks to demonstrate how grassroots and bottom-up resistance can disrupt hegemonic ideologies and dominant values. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with a local NGO and an activist...
| Publicado en: | Cultural Studies Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 418 - 442 |
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