Valuing Organics: Labels, People, and the Materiality of Information Infrastructure in China

Lammer, Christof

doi:10.1080/00141844.2022.2163272

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“…Instead, they valued 'personal experience', 'cooperation', and 'direct links' with 'the peasants'. In this constellation, clean village roads were part of the stage for performing an 'ecological village' during the visits of these customers (Lammer, 2023b). The coincidental quality of this new link between dibao and the vision of decommodified rural labour became clear when it started to dissolve even before the push for standardisation.…”

Section: Sociotechnical Leeway For Alternative Rural Development: Rel...mentioning

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Social policy as knowledge process: How its sociotechnical links to labour reconfigure the social question

Lammer

2023

Global Social Policy

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The relationship between labour and social policy is at the heart of the social question. Scholars often treat this link as either a causal relation out there or a conceptual connection in policy makers’ minds. This article examines its sociotechnical materiality instead. It follows anthropologists who ask how bureaucrats practice policy and scholars of science and technology studies who explore how social and technical aspects are interrelated in knowledge processes. China studies has suggested that the minimum livelihood guarantee ( dibao) was originally designed as a market-oriented response to transformations of labour such as mass layoffs, peasant proletarianisation and associated unrest but later revamped to only combat extreme poverty. Ethnographic insights into dibao policy in a village in Sichuan show how its designed links to labour were erased and transformed through different methods of bureaucratic targeting, as well as expectations about the bureaucratic ability to know. For a time, dibao was even integrated into alternative rural development projects aimed at decommodification. Studying social policy as a knowledge process uncovers how its sociotechnical links to labour reconfigure it as an answer to the social question.

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Section: Sociotechnical Leeway For Alternative Rural Development: Rel...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social policy as knowledge process: How its sociotechnical links to labour reconfigure the social question

Lammer

2023

Global Social Policy

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Valuing Organics: Labels, People, and the Materiality of Information Infrastructure in China

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Social policy as knowledge process: How its sociotechnical links to labour reconfigure the social question

Social policy as knowledge process: How its sociotechnical links to labour reconfigure the social question

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