Debating the State in Private Housing Neighborhoods

The Governance ofHomeowners'Associations inUrbanShanghai

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4382907
AutoresMujun Zhou (0000-0002-6326-8552, Department of Sociology Brown University 108 George Street Providence RI 02906‐1121 USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen38
Número5
Páginas1849-1866
Fecha de publicación2014-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-2427.12187
OpenAlexW1900845509
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas31

This article examines the transformation of state power in urbanChina by investigating how the state governs a newly emerging type of neighborhood organization connected with housing privatization, the homeowners' association (HA). Based on a series of extensive field research visits in Shanghai from 2006 to 2012, it analyzes the contradictory rationales behindHApolicies in Shanghai, and elaborates the debates between state actors and non-state actors on the boundary of state intervention. It finds that the state in Shanghai has engaged multiple goals in its governance of theHAs: regularizing the real estate market, promoting self-organization at the neighborhood level, and channeling homeowners' participation in urban politics. The neoliberal rationality of governing through subjects' autonomy and a tradition of the socialist discourse on party leadership co-exist in the state's toolkit for governance. But the state's capacity to coordinate these different governing techniques varies across fields. I highlight the dilemma a non-liberal state confronts in cultivating self-organizing and self-responsible individuals. This contrasts with some of the studies on 'China's neoliberal state', which argue that the bureaucratic system has been resilient in coping with the contradictions and imbalances inherent in neoliberalism

Autonomy · Bureaucracy · Corporate governance · Deregulation · Dilemma · Economic system · Economics · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Real estate · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Finance