The Resource Mobilisation Cycle: How Chinese Civil Society Organisations Leverage Cultural, Economic, Symbolic and Social Capita

Fulda, Andreas; Hsu, Jennifer Y J

Abstract

How can survival strategies of resource-dependent Chinese CSO be re-conceptualized in order to narrow the gap between civil society research and emerging CSO practices? Specifically, to what extent have CSOs managed to leverage scarce resources to secure organizational survival? Drawing on Bourdieu's scholarship the authors engage in theoretical innovation by explaining how CSOs have engaged in a resource mobilization cycle, whereby practitioners draw on their cultural, economic, symbolic and social capital. They explain how CSOs have varying levels of access to support their work from the four resource pools global civil society, party-state, private sector, local constituents and local communities.

Citation

Fulda, A., & Hsu, J. Y. J. (2020). The Resource Mobilisation Cycle: How Chinese Civil Society Organisations Leverage Cultural, Economic, Symbolic and Social Capita. China: An International Journal, 18(2), 55-76

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 11, 2020
• Online Publication Date: May 1, 2020
• Publication Date: May 1, 2020
• Deposit Date: Oct 6, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: May 2, 2021
• Journal: China: An International Journal (CIJ)
• Print ISSN: 0219-7472
• Electronic ISSN: 0219-8614
• Publisher: National University of Singapore, East Asian Institute
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 55-76
• Keywords: Resource mobilization cycle; resource pools; civil society organizations; capital; tradeoffs and paradoxes
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4942385
• Publisher URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/756363