Kurzbeschreibung

This project follows my previous research concerning the phenomenon of marriage markets in present-day China, the importance granted to love in the Chinese political context, and my theoretical work on the importance of affect in the ethnographic understanding of society (Pettier 2016). It is based on a long-term ethnographic research carried out in the cities of Beijing and Chengdu between 2006 and 2010, and will examine the affective dynamics of the Chinese society and the notion that it may be undergoing “moral crisis.” The project’s ambition is to provide a sensitive ethnography of the affective economy behind the social competition for economic success operating amongst today’s Chinese new generations. In particular, it will focus on questions of intimacy, sexuality, social pressures to attain success, self-sacrifice, and individual engagement in professional careers. Allying a long-term ethnography of China with the most recent theories of affective economy and politics, this research will focus on the affective drive, which I will refer to here as a “desire economics,” behind the extreme level of socio-economic competition experienced by Chinese new generations.

Projektdetails

Projektart

Post-Doc-Projekt

Fachgruppe

Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Fachliche Zuordnung

Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie

Beginn

2017

Ende

2019

Einrichtung

Fachbereich/Zentralinstitut

Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften

Institut/Seminar

Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie

Fachgebiet/Arbeitsbereich

SFB Projekt Affective Societies

Projektteam

Leitung

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Pettier (Post-Doc)

Forschende

• Dr. Jean-Baptiste Pettier (Post-Doc)

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