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- Title
Civic Duty, Moral Responsibility, and Reciprocity: An Ethnographic Study on Resident-volunteers in the Neighbourhoods of Beijing.
- Authors
AUDIN, JUDITH
- Abstract
This paper, which is based on ethnographic field research, analyses the system of resident-volunteers in the neighbourhoods of Beijing. Between co-optation networks, surveillance missions, ritualised practices, and ordinary exchanges of sociability amongst neighbours, volunteering is an interesting form of citizen participation in urban China. The volunteer networks are made up of inhabitants who are selected and involved through the norms of civic duty, personal acquaintance, moral obligation, or persuasion, in order to contribute to the production of local public order. Finally, this specific form of voluntarism reveals, from the perspective of retired people, how shared socio-political practices are created and perpetuated within an institutional volunteering system.
- Subjects
BEIJING (China); VOLUNTEER service; DEMOCRACY; URBAN sociology; CHINESE Communist Party; SOCIAL history
- Publication
China Perspectives, 2017, Issue 3, p47
- ISSN
2070-3449
- Publication type
Article