Concept essay one: Ignoring the attention-seeking state

Tom Cliff

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Concept essay one: Ignoring the attention-seeking state

Tom Cliff^*

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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
Publisher	Springer Singapore
Pages	17-27
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9789811063374
ISBN (Print)	9789811063367
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6337-4_2
Publication status	Published - 4 Dec 2017

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