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YAN
Hairong
(Ph.D. University of Washington)
Assistant Professor Anthropology and EALC:
Ethnography of development, subjectivity, neoliberalism, migration,
gender, labor, rural/urban relations, socialism and postsocialism,
South-South relations, processes of re-regionalization
244-7733
yhairong@uiuc.edu
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I have conducted research on rural-to-urban labor migration
in China, particularly young rural women working as domestics
for urban households. In the book manuscript that grew out of
this research, I analyze how development in China has radically
reorganized relationships between state and market, countryside
and city, mental and manual work, and gender and domesticity.
I am particularly interested in understanding how these transformations
have been enabled by the post-socialist epistemic shift that
reorganizes the narratives of history, remaps the national territorial
body (e.g. the restructuring of rural-urban relations and the
emergence of vast regional disparities), and remolds subjectivity.
The field research experiences and the continued process of
my learning about struggles on the ground have taught me the
dynamic and dead-serious meanings of "the political"
in open-ended social terrains, which our institutionalized knowledge
production often pretends to subsume and administer. This has
significantly challenged and transformed my own subject positions
as student, teacher, and intellectual. |
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