Concept Essay One: Ignoring the Attention-Seeking State

Tom Cliff

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6337-4_2

Concept Essay One: Ignoring the Attention-Seeking State

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The implicit demand voiced by the state is to pay attention to it. At the same time, ignoring the state, in one area of life or another, is a condition of informal life politics. Informal life politics actions are informal precisely because they do not “seek redress” for wrongs or relief from threats to their existence through appeal to the state, or “higher” political power. This ignoring—the lack of attention to the state and its institutions—constitutes a form of indirect political contention.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Living Politics of Self-Help Movements in East Asia
Editors	T Cliff, T Morris-Suzuki & S Wei
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	17-27pp
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9789811063374
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6337-4_2
Publication status	Published - 2018

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