Moral Resource Mobilization and the Logic of a Rising Society in China

本文通过对近年来发生于两岸三地的市民/农民“保卫家园”的都市运动的个案考察,分析行动者是如何致力于发掘价值资源和政治伦理的正当性,以在以国家需要为名义的开发项目中维权。同时通过对韦伯中国命题的再认识,并以日本学界有关“日本的/亚洲的”现代化问题的讨论为借鉴,探讨“中国的”国家与社会间的价值地位秩序和政治伦理情景,对于市民的行动,以及国家—社会关系的演变具有怎样的意义。作为一种行动策略,都市运动对于价值规范的强调(特别表现在用“家园”对抗处于强势地位的“国家”话语),必须置于政治制度—本土文化关系变迁的语境下进行理解。这样的认识路径为揭示中国社会兴起的内在逻辑,以及实际的可能性提供了新的线索。

Abstract: Based on three comparative case studies of recent “Home Protect” movement in Mainland China，Hong Kong and Taiwan，this essay explores how the social movement actors mobilize moral resources and political ethics to resist the urban development justified by fostering national interest. By revisiting Max Weber's writing on Chinese society and drawing insights from Japanese scholars' discussion on the“Japanese /Asian model”as an alternative path of modernization，the author elaborates the hierarchical value structure derived from the imbalanced power relationship between the state and the society to explain the institutional constrains the emerging of citizen activism is facing and its implication to the changing statesociety relation. Urban social movements' strategic focus on cultural value and social norm (manifested by the use of “home” as contentious discourse against “nation / state”) has to be understood in relation to the complicated and changing interaction between political institution and indigenous culture. It is argued that this approach will shed light on the internal logic and actual possibility of a rising society in China.

陈映芳

上海市高校都市文化E-研究院和教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目(《城市发展与国家—社会关系的演变:中国的经验》,项目批准号2009JJD840003)的支持

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