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Article: Rethinking social power and the right to the city amidst China's emerging urbanism
Title | Rethinking social power and the right to the city amidst China's emerging urbanism |
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Keywords | Urban marginality Chinese city Right to the city Social power Social structural change |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Citation | Environment and Planning A, 2012, v. 44, n. 12, p. 2801-2816 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In this paper we engage with a theoretical reflection on the concept of the right to the city amidst China's emerging urbanism. In particular, we conceptualize the right to the city as embedded within the complex geometries of power relations throughout the production process of China's urban modernity; and in this sense assert the right to urban life is inevitably entangled with a social project of altering dominant power structures. We suggest that the rights of three social groups-namely socialist workers in work units, rural migrants, and urban redevelopment displacees-to the modern Chinese city is situated within the uneven distribution of social power and corresponding infrastructures of social control, which contribute to these social groups' structural marginality in the process of urban social formation. In some cases, these social groups may be endowed with substantial rights to social welfare but the dominant power structure is left unquestioned and unchallenged, resulting in latent forms of social vulnerability. Therefore, the concept of the right to the city needs to be captured as a combination of the distribution of things (social welfare) and the mobilization of process (structural change). In this sense, a Hegelian teleology of linear social development to comprehend the rights issue amid China's emerging urbanism must be called into question. © 2012 Pion and its Licensors. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207495 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.6 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.084 |
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dc.contributor.author | Qian, Junxi | - |
dc.contributor.author | He, Shenjing | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-31T01:01:47Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-31T01:01:47Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Environment and Planning A, 2012, v. 44, n. 12, p. 2801-2816 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0308-518X | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207495 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper we engage with a theoretical reflection on the concept of the right to the city amidst China's emerging urbanism. In particular, we conceptualize the right to the city as embedded within the complex geometries of power relations throughout the production process of China's urban modernity; and in this sense assert the right to urban life is inevitably entangled with a social project of altering dominant power structures. We suggest that the rights of three social groups-namely socialist workers in work units, rural migrants, and urban redevelopment displacees-to the modern Chinese city is situated within the uneven distribution of social power and corresponding infrastructures of social control, which contribute to these social groups' structural marginality in the process of urban social formation. In some cases, these social groups may be endowed with substantial rights to social welfare but the dominant power structure is left unquestioned and unchallenged, resulting in latent forms of social vulnerability. Therefore, the concept of the right to the city needs to be captured as a combination of the distribution of things (social welfare) and the mobilization of process (structural change). In this sense, a Hegelian teleology of linear social development to comprehend the rights issue amid China's emerging urbanism must be called into question. © 2012 Pion and its Licensors. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Environment and Planning A | - |
dc.subject | Urban marginality | - |
dc.subject | Chinese city | - |
dc.subject | Right to the city | - |
dc.subject | Social power | - |
dc.subject | Social structural change | - |
dc.title | Rethinking social power and the right to the city amidst China's emerging urbanism | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1068/a44373 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84873658153 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 44 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 12 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 2801 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 2816 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1472-3409 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000313849800003 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0308-518X | - |