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Mobile immobility: an exploratory study of rural women’s engagement with e-commerce livestreaming in China

Huang, Yanning ; Yang, Zi ; Chang, Kuan

The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2024-12, Vol.11 (1), p.5-18, Article 5 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore

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Mobile immobility: an exploratory study of rural women’s engagement with e-commerce livestreaming in China
Autor: Huang, Yanning ; Yang, Zi ; Chang, Kuan
Assuntos: Agricultural production ; Agricultural products ; Analysis ; Asian cultural groups ; Businesswomen ; Chinese rural women ; Communications technology ; Digital Technology ; Domesticity ; E-commerce ; Economic aspects ; Economic conditions ; Electronic commerce ; Empowerment ; Farm produce ; Female empowerment ; Female roles ; Femininity ; Feminism ; Imaginaries of Good Life ; Information technology ; Livestreaming ; Marketing ; Mobile phones ; Occupational mobility ; Platform Economy ; Political economy ; Productivity ; Relatives ; Rural communities ; Rural development ; Rural-urban fringe areas ; Social environment ; Social mobility ; Social power ; Social Sciences ; Sociological research ; Sociology ; Sparsely populated areas ; Technological innovations ; Trade ; Urban–rural disparity ; Villages ; Young women
É parte de: The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2024-12, Vol.11 (1), p.5-18, Article 5
Descrição: Based on our fieldwork in Yunnan Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, this paper explores the different ways in which Chinese rural women engage with the rising industry of e-commerce livestreaming related to agricultural products and villages. Our analytical framework is informed by feminist political economy, which pays heed to the gendered social settings, operation of power, and entanglement between women’s domesticity and productivity that underpin people’s economic activities. We argue that Chinese rural women’s simultaneous empowerment and disempowerment by e-commerce livestreaming are characterized by “mobile immobility”, a term inspired by Wallis’s ( 2013 ) research on rural women’s technological empowerment by mobile phones a decade ago. On the one hand, this latest form of e-commerce has created an apparently accessible path for rural women, who tend to be geographically immobile, to achieve social mobility by becoming professional webcasters and/or vloggers. On the other hand, this enablement is in fact classed, aged, and preconditioned on in-laws’ support and willingness to share these women’s domestic duties, which are not guaranteed. The urban-oriented digital economy of e-commerce livestreaming capitalizes on rural young women’s femininity, docile bodies and labor as well as the reproductive labor performed by their family members at the microlevel, reinforcing the urban–rural disparity at the macrolevel. The paper ends with reflections on the role of information and communication technologies and e-commerce in the development of rural China.
Editor: Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore
Idioma: Inglês

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Mobile immobility: an exploratory study of rural women’s engagement with e-commerce livestreaming in China

Huang, Yanning ; Yang, Zi ; Chang, Kuan

Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore

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