Ideology Without Unity: The Logic of Xi Jinping Thought

This talk reconceptualizes Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics ('Xi Thought') not as a coherent doctrine but as a rhizomatic ideological formation. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari, it treats Xi Thought as a configuration in which coherence is not presupposed but produced through the continual recombination of fragments across institutional sites. Based on an analysis of official publications, including collected works, excerpt volumes, and study readers, Prof.
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Adele Carrai

Maria Adele Carrai is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Cross College. She previously served as Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai and taught as an adjunct at NYU School of Law. She has been an Associate at the Harvard University Asia Center since 2021 and an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute since 2019.

Anne-Charlotte Gimenez

Introduction

Anne-Charlotte Gimenez is Centre Manager for the Centre for Advanced Social Sciences Methods (CASSM) in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and supports the Centre for Experimental Social Sciences (CESS) at Nuffield College. She has over ten years’ experience managing interdisciplinary, grant-funded programmes across academia and the international development sector.

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