Clémentine Cartier
Biographic Data
| ID | 289245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clémentine Cartier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clémentine |
| FAMILY NAME | Cartier |
| SIGNATURE | CARTIER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4278-3256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 451 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Socialist urbanism and cultural infrastructure facilities in China
The construction of “cultural infrastructure facilities” (wenhua jichu sheshi) in China – auditoria, exhibition halls, libraries, museums, performance centers – for state administration of culture and information originated in the 1950s with Sino-Soviet exchange and has continued throughout the reform era. However, scholarship on urban development in China, embedded in discourses of capitalism and modern planning, generally does not recognize thi…
Introduction
Territorializing the Pearl River Delta
Dynamics of Deception within High-Level Police Corruption
The grid process
Grid systems for local governance and administration in China, known as grid management or wanggehua guanli (网格化管理), have been implemented since the mid-2000s. Where existing research focuses on the embeddedness of grid technology in state-society relations, the spatial dynamics of urban grid administration and their significance in China’s state structure receive less attention. This analysis adopts the idea of the spatial process for a dynamic …
There are no cities in China” and the paradox of urban theory
In The Communist Postscript, Boris Groys identifies convictions in question when concepts assumed to be valid are revealed to contain a certain paradox. Among these in China, the concept of the city stands out. Since the imperial era, the Chinese state has organized subnational territory and governed society and space through the administrative divisions (xingzheng quhua 行政区划), but only in the 1980s, with economic reform, did cities become admini…
Among Greater Issues of the Day
The geohistorical disjunctures between Hong Kong—colonial territory, global city, and special administrative region—and China challenge understandings of the relationship. Hong Kong officially maintains certain core values that differ from those of the People’s Republic of China, while unofficial Chinese Communist Party united-front activity in Hong Kong has arguably narrowed the range of the sayable, in Jacques Rancière’s terms, in the public sp…
The Anthropomorphic City — Power and Planning
A CITY is powerful relies on some kind of anthropomorphism. A city is not a thing itself that constitutes and wields power. It lies on a map, inert and lifeless, staring back at us and rhetorically imploring, am I important? How big is my dot? Capital cities are always more important on the map: they get the star, like Beijing. Yet in a recent Party announcement about leading places in China, Beijing did not feature at all. Only three appeared -S…
Exemplary Cities in China
Since the late twentieth century, the subject of China becoming urban has appeared in the scholarship across the disciplines while spectacular images of China’s cities, and narratives about their developmental achievements, have proliferated in global media. Simultaneously, the parallel “spatial turn” in social thought invigorated geographical approaches to cities and urban change. Yet at this promising meeting ground, between contemporary geogra…
Zone Analog
The subject of economic zones has proliferated in scholarship on Asia and beyond as a relational approach to social and economic geographies linked to the world economy. Signifying co-locations and mobile capacities of labor and capital, 'zone' has circulated as a concept whose 'exceptional' conditions deterritorialize from national landscapes. This article contends that 'zone' and the territorial processes it represents have receded from critica…
City as province in China
Chongqing is a province-level city region in China’s interior with a land area larger than many small countries. Limited scholarship tends to treat Chongqing as a new jurisdiction formed in relation to development of the Three Gorges Dam and reform of historic state-planned industry from the Mao era. This analysis turns to the complex process of land redistricting in a process of “territorial urbanization” that has also simultaneously reshaped th…
Preface to an Interventions Forum on Contextual Urban Theory and The ‘Appeal’ of Gentrification
Contextual Urban Theory and the 'Appeal' of Gentrification
The significance of practising theory in context reflects current debates in urban studies as well as the history of poststructural thought whose scholarship, informed by postcolonial critique and understandings of ethics and responsibility in international research collaboration, continues to give evident substance to the nature of epistemological violence. This essay takes up the challenge of contextual theory and empirical research through a c…
A Political Economy of Rank
The level or rank of an administrative division (行区等级 or 政区级别) in China—a structural condition of the sub-national territorial administrative system—is a correlate of administrative rank (行政级别). State reterritorialization of the administrative divisions (行政区划), through establishment and expansion of hundreds of cities, introduces a political economy of differentiation and change by which city governments take the measure of their administrative r…
Model Hong Kong malls and their development in mainland China
Relational geographies of capital and consumption between Hong Kong and mainland China have been forming through tourism engagement in Hong Kong and the development of model Hong Kong malls in China. This analysis of urban restructuring for the consumer economy identifies how landmark Hong Kong malls are reproduced in major cities of China by networks of Hong Kong property firms and mainland elites. Adapting Leslie Sklair's formulation of archite…
Territorial Urbanization and the Party-State in China
This article develops the concept of territorial urbanization in China through the historical conditions and research design problems of the Chinese administrative divisions in relation to comparative territorial thought. Subnational territories are not constitutionally guaranteed in China and the state maintains powers to establish new cities and enlarge and merge existing ones, and even eliminate others, with significant implications for geogra…
What’s territorial about China? From geopolitical narratives to the ‘administrative area economy’
A human geographer and China specialist introduces perspectives on territory in China from the vantage of guowai (outside the country) and guonei (inside the country). This relational comparison extends analysis of Chinese geopolitical narratives to current questions about state power in China, and opens up the geopolitical perspective to recalibrate analysis of territory and territorial boundary formation inside the nation-state. Territorial cha…
Image, Precariousness and the Logic of Cultural Production in Hong Kong
Interpretations of culture in Hong Kong have tended to portray the city in terms of the vanishing present, in some combination of the instant, fleeting and disappearing. This article redresses such language of lack to consider instead how the idea of precariousness in the realm of the cultural has been less a condition of cultural production than a cultural strategy. Street art, including alternative performance art and political graffiti, has ma…
Neoliberalism and the Neoauthoritarian City in China—Contexts and Research Directions
Emerging research on comparative neoliberalism at the urban scale seeks to trace its diffusions and document its contours and trajectories in regions beyond the trans-Atlantic corridor. Discovering geographical variation in neoliberal policy should produce more incisive understandings of neoliberalism's creative transformations, yet the emergent research on comparative urban policy may route uncomfortably close to the world of world and global ci…
Shanghai Rising
State Formation and Comparative Area Studies - Between Globalization and Territorialization
In his review of Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1860: Expansion and Crisis, Victor Lieberman plied the margins of Anthony Reid's (1995) portrayal of early modern Southeast Asia and objected with purpose: "critical cultural and political transformations on the mainland without close archipelagic analogy receive little or no attention" (Lieberman 1995, 799). Where connections and crossings characterize historic social formation in insu…
City-space
Production/Consumption and the Chinese City/Region
The "consumer revolution" in the People's Republic of China emerged after 1992 when the state deepened growth-oriented reform and justified individual consumption as a pillar of economic development. This examination of cultural-economic practices in urban China makes an argument for conceptualizing consumption in relation to production through a modified cultural political economy. It identifies a regional regime in the zone between Shanghai and…
Hong Kong and the Production of Art in the Post/colonial City
Contemporary and alternative art in Hong Kong has strong local roots and translocal connections, and while it reflects cultural politics in the city it lacks substantial international recognition. This interdisciplinary analysis focuses on the contexts of production of contemporary art by women in Hong Kong and their centrality in the city's arts community. The narrative contrasts the presence of contemporary and alternative arts and its absence …
The Information Have-Less
Zone Fever', the Arable Land Debate, and Real Estate Speculation
(2001). 'Zone Fever', the Arable Land Debate, and Real Estate Speculation: China's evolving land use regime and its geographical contradictions. Journal of Contemporary China: Vol. 10, No. 28, pp. 445-469
Territorial Urbanization and the Party-State in China
This article develops the concept of territorial urbanization in China through the historical conditions and research design problems of the Chinese administrative divisions in relation to comparative territorial thought. Subnational territories are not constitutionally guaranteed in China and the state maintains powers to establish new cities and enlarge and merge existing ones, and even eliminate others, with significant implications for geogra…
A Political Economy of Rank
The level or rank of an administrative division (行区等级 or 政区级别) in China—a structural condition of the sub-national territorial administrative system—is a correlate of administrative rank (行政级别). State reterritorialization of the administrative divisions (行政区划), through establishment and expansion of hundreds of cities, introduces a political economy of differentiation and change by which city governments take the measure of their administrative r…
From home to hospital and back again
Transnational Urbanism in the Reform-era Chinese City
While the conventions of area studies scholarship have historically limited landscape analysis in China, the globalisation of scholarship and the new built environments of the reform-era Chinese city invite contemporary assessment. In Shenzhen, China's leading Special Economic Zone, the planning and construction of a new city centre complex are designed to symbolise the city's transformation from a manufacturing zone to a 'world city' and to func…
What’s territorial about China? From geopolitical narratives to the ‘administrative area economy’
A human geographer and China specialist introduces perspectives on territory in China from the vantage of guowai (outside the country) and guonei (inside the country). This relational comparison extends analysis of Chinese geopolitical narratives to current questions about state power in China, and opens up the geopolitical perspective to recalibrate analysis of territory and territorial boundary formation inside the nation-state. Territorial cha…
Cosmopolitics and the Maritime World City
Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a humanistic perspective to express globalizing societal experiences. What are its geographies? World cities are centers of globalizing processes, and their populations and institutions may share elements of cosmopolitical worldviews. Most world cities have also been ports, yet in the contemporary global imaginary, many world cities are not readily understood as places of maritime activity, historic or contemporary.…
Origins and Evolution of a Geographical Idea
The Information Have-Less
Contextual Urban Theory and the 'Appeal' of Gentrification
The significance of practising theory in context reflects current debates in urban studies as well as the history of poststructural thought whose scholarship, informed by postcolonial critique and understandings of ethics and responsibility in international research collaboration, continues to give evident substance to the nature of epistemological violence. This essay takes up the challenge of contextual theory and empirical research through a c…
The Dead, Place/Space, and Social Activism
In Malaysia under state-led economic restructuring, government interventions in cultural heritage landscapes reflect divergent priorities between local place-based conservation interests and forces of political and economic restructuring at broader spatial scales. I examine a major land-use conflict, between economic development interests and a grass-roots preservation movement with links to the national opposition party, to assess how preservati…
Conserving The Built Environment and Generating Heritage Tourism in Peninsular Malaysia
Malaysia's recent historic conservation goals, promoted by local interests and focused in Kuala Lumpur, Melaka, and Penang, are receiving political and financial support from the state based on the potential of historic buildings to attract tourists. Geographical landscape analysis of the places of conservation in the context of local and national social structures shows how tourism planning acts as a frame for other dialogue about national cultu…
Exemplary Cities in China
Since the late twentieth century, the subject of China becoming urban has appeared in the scholarship across the disciplines while spectacular images of China’s cities, and narratives about their developmental achievements, have proliferated in global media. Simultaneously, the parallel “spatial turn” in social thought invigorated geographical approaches to cities and urban change. Yet at this promising meeting ground, between contemporary geogra…
City as province in China
Chongqing is a province-level city region in China’s interior with a land area larger than many small countries. Limited scholarship tends to treat Chongqing as a new jurisdiction formed in relation to development of the Three Gorges Dam and reform of historic state-planned industry from the Mao era. This analysis turns to the complex process of land redistricting in a process of “territorial urbanization” that has also simultaneously reshaped th…
Neoliberalism and the Neoauthoritarian City in China—Contexts and Research Directions
Emerging research on comparative neoliberalism at the urban scale seeks to trace its diffusions and document its contours and trajectories in regions beyond the trans-Atlantic corridor. Discovering geographical variation in neoliberal policy should produce more incisive understandings of neoliberalism's creative transformations, yet the emergent research on comparative urban policy may route uncomfortably close to the world of world and global ci…
Zone Analog
The subject of economic zones has proliferated in scholarship on Asia and beyond as a relational approach to social and economic geographies linked to the world economy. Signifying co-locations and mobile capacities of labor and capital, 'zone' has circulated as a concept whose 'exceptional' conditions deterritorialize from national landscapes. This article contends that 'zone' and the territorial processes it represents have receded from critica…
Symbolic city/regions and gendered identity formation in south China
Creating Historic Open Space in Melaka
IN the city of Melaka, Malaysia, the world's largest traditional Chinese cemetery is becoming a historical park. Bukit China, or China Hill, sprawls over forty-two hectares of undulating terrain along the southeastern fringe of the central city. The site has been a burial ground for local Chinese since the sixteenth century, and, because land pressures have compelled the removal of similar cemeteries in China and elsewhere, Bukit China may be the…
Chinese Landscapes
The state, property development and symbolic landscape in high‐rise Hong Kong
The symbolic landscape of high‐rise Hong Kong is examined through the development of four major buildings in order to assess real and symbolic relations between the state and private property developers in the production of the built environment. The theoretical perspective combines understanding of symbolic landscape as the production of geographically constituted social relations, especially in the evolution of Hong Kong producer services indus…
Hong Kong and the Production of Art in the Post/colonial City
Contemporary and alternative art in Hong Kong has strong local roots and translocal connections, and while it reflects cultural politics in the city it lacks substantial international recognition. This interdisciplinary analysis focuses on the contexts of production of contemporary art by women in Hong Kong and their centrality in the city's arts community. The narrative contrasts the presence of contemporary and alternative arts and its absence …
Tokyo
There are no cities in China” and the paradox of urban theory
In The Communist Postscript, Boris Groys identifies convictions in question when concepts assumed to be valid are revealed to contain a certain paradox. Among these in China, the concept of the city stands out. Since the imperial era, the Chinese state has organized subnational territory and governed society and space through the administrative divisions (xingzheng quhua 行政区划), but only in the 1980s, with economic reform, did cities become admini…
The grid process
Grid systems for local governance and administration in China, known as grid management or wanggehua guanli (网格化管理), have been implemented since the mid-2000s. Where existing research focuses on the embeddedness of grid technology in state-society relations, the spatial dynamics of urban grid administration and their significance in China’s state structure receive less attention. This analysis adopts the idea of the spatial process for a dynamic …
China
Informed by a geographer's perspective, this text portrays a vast country where distance still acts as a major constraint on social interaction, where the population is so huge that demand for resources almost always outstrips supply, and where regional variations have produced a rich mosaic of human and physical characteristics. The author portrays the relatively unexplored world of everyday life in China by examining the exodus from countryside…
China
Informed by a geographer's perspective, this text portrays a vast country where distance still acts as a major constraint on social interaction, where the population is so huge that demand for resources almost always outstrips supply, and where regional variations have produced a rich mosaic of human and physical characteristics. The author portrays the relatively unexplored world of everyday life in China by examining the exodus from countryside…
Creating Historic Open Space in Melaka
IN the city of Melaka, Malaysia, the world's largest traditional Chinese cemetery is becoming a historical park. Bukit China, or China Hill, sprawls over forty-two hectares of undulating terrain along the southeastern fringe of the central city. The site has been a burial ground for local Chinese since the sixteenth century, and, because land pressures have compelled the removal of similar cemeteries in China and elsewhere, Bukit China may be the…
Chinese Landscapes
Tokyo
Passing Strange and Wonderful
Conventional wisdom suggests that aesthetic experiences - those moments when the senses come to life - are important only after more basic needs have been met. In this inspiring wealth of provocative ideas, Yi-Fu Tuan demonstrates that feeling and beauty are essential parts of life and society. The aesthetic is shown to be not merely one aspect of culture but its central core - both its driving force and its ultimate goal. Beginning with the indi…
Conserving The Built Environment and Generating Heritage Tourism in Peninsular Malaysia
Malaysia's recent historic conservation goals, promoted by local interests and focused in Kuala Lumpur, Melaka, and Penang, are receiving political and financial support from the state based on the potential of historic buildings to attract tourists. Geographical landscape analysis of the places of conservation in the context of local and national social structures shows how tourism planning acts as a frame for other dialogue about national cultu…
The Dead, Place/Space, and Social Activism
In Malaysia under state-led economic restructuring, government interventions in cultural heritage landscapes reflect divergent priorities between local place-based conservation interests and forces of political and economic restructuring at broader spatial scales. I examine a major land-use conflict, between economic development interests and a grass-roots preservation movement with links to the national opposition party, to assess how preservati…
Megadevelopment in Malaysia
In Malaysia, state promotion of tourism as a main component of service sector expansion and foreign exchange earnings has compelled government at all levels to facilitate leisure industry development. Even in the relatively small state of Melaka, where its historic landscapes constitute significant heritage tourism resources, development projects for theme parks and golf resorts have proliferated. This analysis examines Malaysian tourism developm…
Megadevelopment in Malaysia
The state, property development and symbolic landscape in high‐rise Hong Kong
The symbolic landscape of high‐rise Hong Kong is examined through the development of four major buildings in order to assess real and symbolic relations between the state and private property developers in the production of the built environment. The theoretical perspective combines understanding of symbolic landscape as the production of geographically constituted social relations, especially in the evolution of Hong Kong producer services indus…
Red Capitalism in South China
Part 1: Overview and Introduction 1. Introduction Part 2: National Context 2. The Operating System of Spatial Transformation 3. Maoist Plan-Ideological Space 4. Post-Mao Market-Regulatory Space Part 3: Development of the Pearl River Delta 5. Economic and Spatial Transformation 6. Rural Industrialization 7. Transport Development 8. Influence of Hong Kong Part 4: Conclusion and Discussion 9. Summary and Prospects References Index
Cosmopolitics and the Maritime World City
Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a humanistic perspective to express globalizing societal experiences. What are its geographies? World cities are centers of globalizing processes, and their populations and institutions may share elements of cosmopolitical worldviews. Most world cities have also been ports, yet in the contemporary global imaginary, many world cities are not readily understood as places of maritime activity, historic or contemporary.…
Globalizing South China
List of Plates. List of Figures and Tables. List of Maps. Series Editorsa Preface. Preface. Chapter 1 Negotiating Geographical Knowledges. Chapter 2 Region and Representation. Chapter 3 Maritime Frontier/Mercantile Region. Chapter 4 Open Ports and the Treaty System. Chapter 5 Revolution and Diaspora. Chapter 6 Gendered Industrialization. Chapter 7 Zone Fever. Chapter 8 Urban Triumphant. Epilogue. References. Index
Zone Fever', the Arable Land Debate, and Real Estate Speculation
(2001). 'Zone Fever', the Arable Land Debate, and Real Estate Speculation: China's evolving land use regime and its geographical contradictions. Journal of Contemporary China: Vol. 10, No. 28, pp. 445-469
Land Development, Regulation Theory, and the Regional Economy in South China
Based on trends in land development and real estate speculation in coastal south China, this paper assesses the contradictions in China's evolving land use regime from the perspective of regulation theory. During 1987–1997, from the first sale of land use rights to the national moratorium on arable land conversion, land use transformations exceeded state guidelines and were of ten implemented informally. Regulation theory, in its emphasis on the …
Transnational Urbanism in the Reform-era Chinese City
While the conventions of area studies scholarship have historically limited landscape analysis in China, the globalisation of scholarship and the new built environments of the reform-era Chinese city invite contemporary assessment. In Shenzhen, China's leading Special Economic Zone, the planning and construction of a new city centre complex are designed to symbolise the city's transformation from a manufacturing zone to a 'world city' and to func…
Origins and Evolution of a Geographical Idea
Symbolic city/regions and gendered identity formation in south China
China's Living Houses
From home to hospital and back again
The Information Have-Less
Hong Kong and the Production of Art in the Post/colonial City
Contemporary and alternative art in Hong Kong has strong local roots and translocal connections, and while it reflects cultural politics in the city it lacks substantial international recognition. This interdisciplinary analysis focuses on the contexts of production of contemporary art by women in Hong Kong and their centrality in the city's arts community. The narrative contrasts the presence of contemporary and alternative arts and its absence …
Production/Consumption and the Chinese City/Region
The "consumer revolution" in the People's Republic of China emerged after 1992 when the state deepened growth-oriented reform and justified individual consumption as a pillar of economic development. This examination of cultural-economic practices in urban China makes an argument for conceptualizing consumption in relation to production through a modified cultural political economy. It identifies a regional regime in the zone between Shanghai and…
City-space
Neoliberalism and the Neoauthoritarian City in China—Contexts and Research Directions
Emerging research on comparative neoliberalism at the urban scale seeks to trace its diffusions and document its contours and trajectories in regions beyond the trans-Atlantic corridor. Discovering geographical variation in neoliberal policy should produce more incisive understandings of neoliberalism's creative transformations, yet the emergent research on comparative urban policy may route uncomfortably close to the world of world and global ci…
Geography (30 works) · Political science (30 works) · Economics (25 works) · China (24 works) · Law (22 works) · Sociology (22 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (21 works) · Economy (20 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · Economic geography (19 works)