China-4E: Eviction, Ethnicity, Environment and Economy

China-4E：驱逐、种族、环境和经济

• 批准号: EP/Y032713/1
• 负责人: Peter Ho
• 金额: $ 269.73万
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY032713%2F1
• 关键词: China; 4E; Eviction; Ethnicity; Environment

Research has for long warned for an "endgame" of the Communist Party-state in China due to a rise in social conflict ranging from farmers' protests to labor strikes. Contrarily, the Party-state's grip over society has only grown; even more so, since the Xi administration's rise to power. There are overriding socio-economic and geo-political reasons to study the stability of the Chinese Party-state and its institutions. Yet, this research is hampered by two factors. For one, research has been slowed by a lack of integrated tools to measure contention. Moreover, the topic itself poses considerable challenges to ethnographic fieldwork and data collection. China-4E addresses this shortfall through a crucial question: What is the credibility of the Chinese Party-state and how does that relate to the likelihood of its collapse? The question will be pursued in a comprehensive, inter-disciplinary manner: First, by marrying approaches from the contemporary China Studies with development sociology, geography, anthropology and economics to examine the "4 E's" or key arenas of conflict, i.e. Evictions, Ethnicity, Environment, and Economy. Second, by assessing the credibility of the Party-state with the use of the new Conflict Analysis Model (CAM) and the Formal, Actual and Targeted (FAT) Institutional Framework, which assesses divergences between what the state professes its institutions do versus what these actually do, and what people believe they ought to do. Both novel analytical tools - developed by the PI with ERC support - have been widely field-tested, although not yet been applied to assess, monitor, and forecast the credibility of the Party-state. As such they are expected to yield significant, new insights. By using China as an empirical case, the findings of this project will have relevance for the study and understanding of political regimes around the world, their ascendance, collapse, and at times, paradoxical persistence.

长期以来，研究一直警告中国共产党国家的“最终赛场”，这是因为社会冲突的增加，从农民的抗议活动到劳动罢工。相反，党派对社会的控制只会增长。更重要的是，自习近平政府升上权力以来。有一些社会经济和地理政治理由来研究中国政党国家及其机构的稳定性。但是，这项研究受到两个因素的阻碍。首先，由于缺乏衡量争夺的综合工具而减慢了研究。此外，该主题本身对人种学现场工作和数据收集构成了巨大的挑战。中国4E通过一个关键问题解决了这一短缺：中国政党国家的信誉是什么，这与崩溃的可能性有何关系？这个问题将以一种全面的跨学科方式提出：首先，通过将当代中国研究的方法与发展社会学，地理，人类学和经济学结合，以研究“ 4 E”或关键冲突领域，即驱逐，种族，环境和经济。其次，通过使用新的冲突分析模型（CAM）以及正式，实际和有针对性的（脂肪）制度框架来评估政党国家的信誉，该框架评估了国家自称其机构所做的与实际做的事情以及人们认为应该做的事情之间的分歧。由PI提供ERC支持的两种新型分析工具 - 尚未应用于评估，监视和预测政党国家的信誉。因此，他们有望产生重大的新见解。通过将中国作为经验案例，该项目的发现将与研究和理解世界各地的政治制度，其上升，崩溃以及有时矛盾的持久性有关。