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gnière : Identité, nationalité et citoyenneté .
Les nouveaux paradigmes de la culture poli-
tique européenne • Christian Demeuré-Val-
lée/Yann Fournis : De la citoyenneté euro-
péenne à la citoyenneté régionale . À la re-
cherche d’une citoyenneté bretonne et
européenne • Mark Eyskens : Peuple ou popu-
lation : le cas de la Flandre • Linda Cardinal :
Quelle citoyenneté pour les minoritaires ? Une
réponse néo-républicaine • Rik Pinxten : Mon-
dialisation : monoculturalisme ou multicul-
turalisme ? • Mark Dubrulle : Identités cultu-
relles et citoyenneté dans l’élargissement de
l’Union européenne • Léonce Bekemans : Le
dialogue interculturel en Europe . Une réalité
régionale et un devoir mondial • Koen de
Wandeler/ Annette Kuhk : Bruxelles, multicul-
turalité dans la capitale de l’Europe • Pedro
Canavarro : La Méditerranée, espace révéla-
teur de l’identité européenne • Mark Van de
Voorde : L’Europe : héritage et communauté .
«The book stands out as an original work that
is a herald of similar works in the future.» (Enes
Kabakçı, Insight Turkey)
mark duBrulle , cofondateur et actuel-
lement Président du Forum Europe des
Cultures, a été, dans les années 1980, membre
du conseil du Centre européen de la culture
(Genève) . Il a publié de nombreux articles sur
le fédéralisme, l’Europe, l’environnement, la
communication et la culture . Il est le rédacteur
et co-auteur de Future European Environmental
Legislation and Subsidiarity (PIE, 1992)
et de Régionalisme, Fédéralisme, Écologisme :
de nouvelles bases culturelles et économiques
pour l’union de l’Europe (PIE, 1995) .
gaBriel Fragnière , ancien Recteur du
Collège d’Europe de Bruges, Président fondateur
du Forum Europe des Cultures, assume
actuellement la direction de plusieurs collections
d’ouvrages chez PIE Peter Lang, dans les
domaines de l’histoire de la construction européenne,
de l’étude des religions, de la philosophie
politique et de la diversité culturelle .
Parmi ses derniers ouvrages on retiendra : La
religion et le Pouvoir. La chrétienté, l’Occident
et la démocratie (PIE Peter Lang, 2005) .
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Johan Lagerkvist
hina has lived with the Internet for
nearly two decades . Will increased Internet
use, with new possibilities to share information
and discuss news and politics, lead
to democracy, or will it to the contrary sustain
a nationalist supported authoritarianism
that may eventually contest the global
information order?
This book takes stock of the ongoing tug
of war between state power and civil society
on and off the Internet, a phenomenon that
is fast becoming the centerpiece in the Chinese
Communist Party’s struggle to stay in
power indefinitely . It interrogates the dynamics
of this enduring contestation, before democracy,
by following how Chinese society
travels from getting access to the Internet to
our time having the world’s largest Internet
population . Pursuing the rationale of Internet
regulation, the rise of the Chinese blogosphere
and citizen journalism, Internet irony,
online propaganda, the relation between state
and popular nationalism, and finally the role
of social media to bring about China’s democratization,
this book offers a fresh and provocative
perspective on the arguable role of
media technologies in the process of democratization,
by applying social norm theory to
illuminate the competition between the Partystate
norm and the youth/subaltern norm in
Chinese media and society .
«Insightful and timely, this book offers a rich
analysis that brings the scholarship on Internet
and democracy in China to a new level of
holistic understanding. Drawing from solid
empirical data and key historical knowledge,
Dr. Lagerkvist connects classic political theory
with China’s complex social reality, challenging
conventional wisdom about Chinese authorities,
political culture, and media system
reform. Anyone interested in China’s media
landscape and her democratic future should
read this book.» (Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ph.D. Associate
Professor, School of Journalism and
Communication, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong)
Politique · Politik · Politics
After the Internet, Before Democracy
Competing Norms in Chinese Media and Society
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010 .
325 pp ., num . tables and graphs
pb . ISBN 978-3-0343-0435-1
CHF 83 .– / € D 63 .50 / € A 65 .20 / € 59 .30 / £ 53 .– / US-$ 88 .95
eBook ISBN 978-3-0351-0109-6
«Johan Lagerkvist has produced the most comprehensive
treatment of the internet in China
we’ve yet seen. He examines topics as varied
as state regulation, blogging, citizen journalism
and online irony and nationalism, and
links careful empirical research to evolving
state, societal and business norms and the
character of China’s regime. A welcome addition
to a fast-growing literature, this book is
a must-read for anyone interested in the mass
media and political communication in China.»
(Kevin J. O’Brien, Alann P. Bedford Professor
of Asian Studies and Political Science, University
of California, Berkeley)
«After the Internet provides an authoritative
guide to the huge, cantankerous, controlled,
unruly, ever-surprising world of over 400 million
Internet users in China. From the Chinese
blogosphere to government efforts to impose
harmony, from Party ideotainment to irrepressible
spoofing (egao) and the political irreverence
of the «grass mud horse» phenomenon,
to the shapes of government vs. popular
nationalism, and even the recent Google
imbroglio, Lagervist gives an insightful account
based on wide-ranging research and intelligent
engagement with current scholarship.
This will be the standard guide to understanding
the Chinese Internet for years to
come.» (Timothy Cheek, Institute of Asian Research,
University of British Columbia)
«(...) Johan Lagerkvist should be congratulated
on producing this comprehensive and useful
analysis of China’s Internet landscape. This
timely book addresses the wide range of critical
issues pertaining to the democratic implications
of Internet development in China, and
deserves to be widely read by anyone concerned
about changes in Chinese politics, society,
and culture today.» (Joseph Tse-Hei Lee,
International Journal of China Studies)
Johan lagerkvist holds a PhD in Chinese
from Lund University . He is a senior research
fellow at the Swedish Institute of International
Affairs in Stockholm .
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