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Jie Yang - Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China - 9780801456602 - V9780801456602
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Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China

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Description for Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 6 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JFFA; JHB; JKSN2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fieldwork from reemployment programs, community psychosocial work, and psychotherapy training sessions in Beijing between 2002 and 2013, Yang highlights the role of psychology in state-led interventions to alleviate the effects of mass unemployment. She pays particular attention to those programs that train laid-off workers ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801456602
SKU
V9780801456602
Shipping Time
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About Jie Yang
Jie Yang is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. She is the editor of The Political Economy of Affect and Emotion in East Asia.

Reviews for Unknotting the Heart: Unemployment and Therapeutic Governance in China
With this book, Yang makes an important contribution by exploring the subjectivities of unemployed workers in China and by making visible the often hidden ideological struggle between the state and the unemployed workers over the interpretation of dislocation and unemployment.
Ofer Sharone
ILR Review
Unknotting the Heart offers invaluable information and insights into the lived experiences of ... Read more

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