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Deux publications de Chloé Froissart sur la société civile en Chine

Journal of Civil SocietyFroissart, Chloé. (2014) Using the law as a ‘harmonious weapon’ : the ambiguities of legal activism in favour of migrant workers in China. Journal of Civil Society. Special section : Civil society development in authoritarian regimes. Publié en ligne le 22 août 2014. DOI:10.1080/17448689.2014.941086.

Legal mobilization has spread in China over the past 20 years and is generally considered by both activists and scholars as a way to advance democracy and rule of law. Focusing on the mobilization in favour of migrant workers and on politically moderate practices, which are both more frequent and widely held as more successful, I argue to the contrary that resistance and reproduction of political domination are mutually constitutive. Public interest litigation and administrative litigation appear as new forms of political participation that constitute an internal regulation to the authoritarian regime, thus contributing to explain the regime’s capacity to adapt and its durability. This article also accounts for new strategies developed by some lawyers that shun the courts and use law to ‘empower civil society’ and that thus do not contribute to structural reproduction. Though activists are struggling to turn their strategies into more institutionalized practices, they remain an ad hoc mechanism of internal control.

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Froissart, Chloé. (2014) The ambiguities between contention and political participation : a study of civil society development in authoritarian regimes. Journal of Civil Society. Special section : Civil society development in authoritarian regimes. Publié en ligne le 5 septembre 2014. DOI: 10.1080/17448689.2014.944758.

The development of social organizations and protest movements is exponential not only in authoritarian regimes like China and Cuba, but also in newly ‘democratized’ countries whose institutional modes of functioning remain chiefly authoritarian like Russia. Resisting any trajectory towards liberal democracy, contemporary authoritarian regimes seem to accomodate themselves to a wide range of expressions of discontent and even, sometimes, to thrive on them. Those paradoxical phenomena are relevant to study because they give insights into the adaptation and transformation of authoritarian governments, which happen to be more flexible that most social science literature tends to acknowledge.

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Monique Abud

Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France

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Monique Abud (15 septembre 2014). Deux publications de Chloé Froissart sur la société civile en Chine. Carnets du Centre Chine (CNRS/EHESS). Consulté le 7 février 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/meui


Monique Abud

Centre d'études sur la Chine moderne et contemporaine, EHESS, Paris, France

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