The limits of agency: aspirational frustrations amongst working-class Chinese youths
This paper investigates the frustrated aspirations of three young Han working-class students in Inner Mongolia, Northern China. Drawing upon anthropological debates and philosophical developments in action theory, I argue that the subject qua actor ought not to be seen as an analytic construct that...
Main Author: | Jiang, E |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Anthropological Society
2024
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