Depoliticization, Politicization, and Criminalization: How China Has Been Handling Political Prisoners since 1980s

Fong, Ware

doi:10.1007/s11366-018-9569-0

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“…Since 1980s, PTS has been used by researchers in over 500 studies (Carleton and Stohl, 1985;Henderson, 1996;Blanton, 2000;Jorgensen, 2009;Fariss and Dancy, 2017;Bardall, 2018;Fong, 2019;Aarhus and Jakobsen, 2019;Chu, 2019). Other than PTS, many studies have also used the Physical Integrity Rights (PIR) index created by Cingranelli and Richards (1999) to the capture the state of human rights.…”

Section: Measuring Human Rightsmentioning

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Impact of globalization on human rights: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Takiyar

Rao

2020

IJSE

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine the impact of globalization and its multiple dimensions on human rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.Design/methodology/approachThe study extends the Poe and Tate (1994) model, which enumerates the various determinants of human rights. Ordered probit estimation is used to estimate the impact of globalization and its dimensions. For the purpose of empirical analysis, the period has been divided into three phases: short, medium and long term. This helps in understanding how the impact of the different dimensions of globalization has evolved over a period of time. Furthermore, analysis has been carried out to detect causality between human rights and globalization.FindingsAs per the results, overall globalization and social dimension of globalization do have a positive impact on human rights in long and medium term and, also, Granger-cause human rights. The political dimension of globalization has a positive relation with human rights, though there exists no causality between the two. On the other hand, the economic dimension of globalization fails to have a statistically significant impact on human rights. Impact of the social dimension of globalization dominates that of other dimensions of globalization.Originality/valueThis is one of the few studies that examine, in an empirical fashion, the impact of globalization on human rights in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Section: Measuring Human Rightsmentioning

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Impact of globalization on human rights: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Takiyar

Rao

2020

IJSE

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Pseudo-participation, authentic nationalism: understanding Chinese fanquan girls’ personifications of the nation-state

Lams

Zhou

2022

Asian Journal of Communication

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What are the dynamics of the participatory online discourse in an authoritarian context? More specifically, what patterns of Chinese state-society interactions can be drawn from the existing nexus of top-down control and bottom-up participation? To explore the questions, this study examines the Chinese nation-state personifications produced by 'fanquan girls', nationalistic fans of pop stars, during the 2019 Hong Kong protests. Three types of imageries and scenarios emerged, i.e., the nation as a charismatic idol in a discursive struggle, a protective brother on a battlefield, and a victimized mother in a trial. These visualizations construct a discursive kinship that justifies China's governance over Hong Kong and refutes the intervention from foreign 'hostile forces' through visualized national strength, state-society unity, and colonial sufferings. During the process, the state provided the ideological mindset and delimited the political boundaries, the fandom participants turned the state promoted ideas and sentiments into youth-appealing memes, and both sides appropriated and circulated each other's creations in joint self-defense against outside reproval and opposition. Therefore, the paper argues that this communicative pattern consolidates the state's discursive co-optation of the society rather than demolishes the authoritarian rule.

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