Professor Michael Dutton

Staff details

Position Professor of Politics

Department Politics and International Relations

Email m.dutton (@gold.ac.uk)

Phone +44 (0)20 7078 5354

Holding a joint professorship with the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Science at China's Tsinghua University, Professor Michael Dutton's work circles around his principle intellectual interest (social theory) and his principle geographic archive, China. Increasingly the distinction between archive and interest has become blurred.

His earliest major work, Policing and Punishment in China (Cambridge UP 1992), explored the way various Chinese governments disciplined the subject, while his second major work, Streetlife China (1998 Cambridge UP) looked at the popular responses to governmental disciplining. His third book, Policing Chinese Politics (Duke UP 2005) —for which he won the American Asian Studies Levenson Award for the best book on modern China, 2007— explored the underlying dynamic propelling the Maoist revolution while his last book, Beijing Time (Harvard UP), co-authored with former students, revealed another sometimes hidden side to life in the Chinese capital. In his forthcoming book, Dutton explores the concept of the political but once again he does so in a way that highlights its Chinese characteristics. Arguing for an art rather than a science of the political, Dutton’s work offers a more liquid and affective understanding of the political.

Areas of supervision

China, postcolonial and postmodern theory, everydayness and the metropolis.
Chinese policing and punishment.

Publications

Book

Dutton, Michael; Lo, Hsiu-ju Stacy and Wu, Dong Dong. 2010. Beijing Time. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674047341

Dutton, Michael. 2009. 《中国的规制与惩罚：从夫权本位到人民本位》，清华大学出版社，北京。 Policing and Punishment in China; from Patriarchy to ‘The People’. 清华大学出版社 Qinghua University Press.

Dutton, Michael. 2005. Policing Chinese Politics: A History. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN 0822334771

Dutton, Michael. 1998. Streetlife China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521637190

Book Section

Dutton, Michael. 2018. Preface: The Postcolonial and Political in Wang Min’an, in Wang Min’an. In: , ed. Domestic Spaces in Post-Mao China: On Electronic Household Appliances. Oxon: Routledge. ISBN 9780415784856

Dutton, Michael and Hindess, Barry. 2016. Governmentality Studies and China: Toward a ‘Chinese’ Governmentality. In: David Bray and Elaine Jeffreys, eds. New Mentalities of Government in China. London: Routledge, pp. 16-29. ISBN 978-1138917750

Dutton, Michael. 2011. Das Regiment der Gewalt: Polizieren des Politischen in der Volksrepublik China The government of violence: Policing the Chinese political; a short history. In: Alf Leudke; Herbert Reinke and Michael Sturm, eds. Polizei, Gewalt und Staat im 20. Jahrhundert. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 105-130. ISBN 978-3-531-18266-7

Dutton, Michael. 2009. Asian Cultural Studies: Recapturing the Encounter with the Heterogeneous in Cultural Studies. In: Chris Berry; Nicola Liscutin and Jonathan D. Mackintosh, eds. Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia: What a Difference a Region Makes. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press, pp. 37-50. ISBN 9789622099746

Dutton, Michael. 2009. Building a Gift of Politics. In: M. Farquhar, ed. 21st Century China: Views from Australia. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 31-55. ISBN 978-1-4438-1259-7

Dutton, Michael. 2009. Passionately Governmental: Maoism and the Structured Intensities of Revolutionary Governmentality. In: Elaine Jeffreys, ed. China's Governmentalities: Governing Change, Changing Government. London: Routledge, pp. 24-38. ISBN 978-0-415-54744-4

Article

Dutton, Michael. 2018. Spaces of the political. Architectural Research Quarterly, 21(3), pp. 265-276. ISSN 1359-1355

Dutton, Michael. 2017. The gift of the political. Social Identities, 23(6), pp. 730-740. ISSN 1350-4630

Dutton, Michael. 2016. Cultural Revolution as Method. The China Quarterly, 227, pp. 718-733. ISSN 0305-7410

Dutton, Michael. 2012. “Fragments of the Political or How we Deal With Wonder”. Social Text, 30(1), pp. 109-141.

Dutton, Michael. 2010. The paradoxical after-life of colonial governmentality. Social Identities, 16(5), pp. 635-649. ISSN 1350-4630

Dutton, Michael. 2010. The Square: A Political Anthropology of the Built Environment. Time+Architecture, 4, pp. 88-101.

Dutton, Michael. 2008. Building a Gift of Politics. Communication, Politics & Culture, 41(1), pp. 78-98.

Dutton, Michael. 2008. Passionately governmental: Maoism and the structured intensities of revolutionary governmentality. Postcolonial Studies, 11(1), pp. 99-112. ISSN 1368-8790

Dutton, Michael. 2005. From Culture Industry to Mao Industry: A Greek Tragedy. boundary 2, 32(2), pp. 151-167. ISSN 15272141

Dutton, Michael. 2004. Mango Mao: Infections of the Sacred. Public Culture, 16(2), pp. 161-187. ISSN 15278018

Dutton, Michael. 2002. Lead Us Not Into Translation: Notes Toward a Theoretical Foundation for Asian Studies. Nepantla: Views from South, 3(3), pp. 495-537. ISSN 15270858

Digital

Dutton, Michael; Martin, David and Driver, Adam. 2009. Political Passion Affective Communities in China and the West.