From Village Commons to Public Goods

Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Anne-Christine Trémon, Anne-Christine Tremon Tremon

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Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents. Graduated provision is the delivery of public goods informed by the teleological ideology of urbanization, and by neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics, and has been employed as an answer to the challenges of making public goods, such as welfare provisions, public parks, education, and senior care, equally accessible to all in recently urbanized communities.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-06-09
Mått152 x 229 x 22 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieDislocations
Antal sidor284
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781800739000

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNote on AnonymizationGlossaryIntroduction: Graduated Provisioning in China’s Urbanized VillagesChapter 1. Three Villages-in-the-cityChapter 2. From Villages Commons to Public Urban GoodsChapter 3. Creating Visual and Public OrderChapter 4. Building Moral CommunitiesChapter 5. Segregated Public Space and the Right to the CityConclusion: Exclusion and Rivalry, Lasting Inequalities and Neoliberal ProvisionReferencesIndex

“This is an excellent book, well researched, clearly written and taking an original approach to an important issue, China’s urban villages. The originality lies particularly in using the public goods/commons debates to provide a new lens on urban China.” • Alan Smart, University of Calgary“Urban China is an excellent setting to rethink the commons and public goods... The discussion is informed by a serious reading of relevant theory and is ethnographically rich.” • Niko Besnier, University of Amsterdam