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Performing the Nation, Performing the Market: Hybrid Practices and Negotiated Meanings of Chinese Rural Teachers
Author(s) -
Wu Jinting
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12267
Subject(s) - performative utterance , sociology , ethnography , ideology , resistance (ecology) , ethnic group , neoliberalism (international relations) , china , gender studies , tourism , economic growth , political economy , political science , politics , aesthetics , economics , law , anthropology , ecology , philosophy , biology
Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in two ethnic villages in Southwest China, this article examines rural teachers’ performative engagement with education reform, audit culture, and neoliberal market mandates in their daily practices. Teachers are at once pedagogical agents, street‐level bureaucrats, and tourism entrepreneurs who both perform to and resist the dominant state and market ideologies. Teachers’ creative tactics and hybrid subjectivities challenge the resistance–compliance dichotomy and illuminate the persistent educational inequality in China’s rural ethnic margins.