Neighbourhood Governance in Urban China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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As the economy and society of China has become more diversified, so have its urban neighborhoods. The last decade has witnessed a surge in collective action by homeowners in China against the infringement of their rights. Research on neighborhood governance is sparse and limited, so this book fills a vital gap in the literature and understanding.The authors reveal how the Chinese authorities have themselves become increasingly sensitive to the potential risk of collective actions becoming destabilizing forces in urban arenas. This thought-provoking book looks at both the theoretical and empirical underpinning of the self-governance of homeowners and their collective action, as well as control mechanisms in neighborhood governance. The book offers a window through which contending issues, such as changing state-society relations, rights-based social movements and the emergence of civil society, can be further explored.Neighborhood governance is a multifaceted concept that cuts across academic disciplines and intersects an array of policy areas. Therefore this book will find a wide audience amongst public and social policy academics, particularly those with an interest in urban studies, governance and Asian cities, as well as politics.Contributors: W. Breitung, H. Chai, J. Chen, L. Chen, Y. Chen, Y. Gui, S. Guo, R. Huang, Y. Jiang, W. Ma, B.L. Read, X. Sun, J. Tang, J. Wang, Y.Wu, N.-M. Yip

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Utgivningsdatum2014-05-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781781000236

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ContentsPreface1. Introduction: Neighbourhood Governance in ContextNgai-Ming YipPART I THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS2. Theoretical Approaches to Neighbourhood Governance: Searching for Lost Treasure and Comparative FrameworksBenjamin L. Read3. Neighbourhood Governance and the Creation of Urban Commons in ChinaLimei ChenPART II STATE SOCIETY INTERACTION AT THE GRASSROOTS4. The Institutionalization of Neighbourhood Governance - Dilemma and Political HurdlesYong Gui and Weihong Ma5. Are Residents’ Committees Able to Contain Homeowner Resistance? The Interaction between Residents’ Committees and Homeowners’ AssociationsRonggui Huang6. Loyalist-activist Networks and Institutional Identification in Urban NeighbourhoodsShengli Guo and Xiaoyi SunPART III INSTITUTIONAL SETUP OF HOMEOWNERS’ ASSOCIATIONS7. Institutional Innovations in Homeowner Self-governance: Case Study of BeijingYouhong Chen8. Homeowner Self-governance and its Sustainability: Case Study of A Residential Neighbourhood in ShenzhenJuan Tang, Jianjun Wang and Hongxia ChanPART IV AGENTS OF CHANGE IN THE EMERGING CIVIL SOCIETY9. Differentiated Neighbourhood Governance in Transitional Urban China: Comparative Study of Two Housing Estates in GuangzhouWerner Breitung10. The Constructive Significance of Homeowners’ Rightful Protest in ChinaYing Wu, and Junhua Chen11. Altering the Rules: Homeowners’ Participation in LegislationYihong JiangIndex

‘This book is timely, coming as it does at a time when interest in China’s urban growth remains high (for example, Ren, 2013), and neighbourhood/community governance is increasingly emphasised in many countries, particularly the UK (cf. the 2011 Localism Act). However, as Chapter 2 of the book, written by Benjamin Read, acknowledges, Western theories around neighbourhood governance ‘were created against the backdrop of a pluralist model of societal organization’ (p. 30), with more-or-less independent grassroots activity. That model, certainly in recent years, is not directly transferable to the Chinese context, so this book makes a valuable contribution to developing our knowledge of neighbourhood governance in a specific setting.’