Luigi Tomba
Biographic Data
| ID | 186719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luigi Tomba |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luigi |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomba |
| SIGNATURE | TOMBA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
No Worse off? The governance impacts of compensating for land takings in China
We examine the impacts of compensation not only on land-losers' \nsubsequent livelihoods, but also on distributions, governance and \norganisational capacity, social positioning, and ability to live the \nsorts of lives farmers value. The power of this encompassing \nperspective to reveal complex, far reaching consequences of \ndifferent compensation arrangements is illustrated by qualitative \nresearch in three wealthy jurisdictions that trialle…
Gentrifying China's Urbanization? Why Culture and Capital Aren't Enough
China's urban areas are expanding and changing, with significant physical and social consequences. The analysis of such consequences often constructs the violence and demolition that precedes the redevelopment of villages and neighbourhoods as the direct result of the authoritarian nature of the Chinese state. Such violence is visible in countless cases where the state prevails over the rights of homeowners, farmers or simple citizens in the proc…
The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution
Environmental pollution poses serious challenges for China, including to its economy as well as public health. The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution looks at how China's Communist Party-state addresses these problems and how Chinese citizens have coped with and expressed their concerns about living with chronic, worsening pollution
Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces: Examples of Migrants in the City in the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh
Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to cities. Diverging power geometries and relations are constantly negotiated and (re)produced in the soc…
Il risveglio dei diritti? Un dibattito sul lavoro in Cina
In the past two decades, much has been written about China's status as the new «factory of the world». In particular, much emphasis has been placed on how global capitalism, with the connivance of the Chinese authorities, was able to exploit China's workers, unleashing a global "race to the bottom" in labour standards. In such a context, the Chinese workers have usually been described as passive victims "under assault" by the forces of globalizat…
A New Chinese Land Reform
On 3 April 2013, the People's Daily published a commentary on the violent death of two protesting farmers in Henan, crushed in two separate incidents by vehicles used to clear their land for development. 'Besides the open questions about the administrative violations,' wrote the author, 'there remain other things to be asked: has the expropriation followed the appropriate procedures? Is it legal to build a hotel or any permanent structure on basi…
China’s Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities
As well as the very visible revival of ancestral halls and ancestors' temples across rural China, villages in Guangdong's rapidly urbanizing countryside invariably feature small tudigong (Earth God) shrines, inhabited by terracotta or timber figures like the one in Figure 2.1, and generally located at the gates of the villages' residential areas or in visible corners of the village (Dell-Orto, 2002). These smallish, 'grandpa'-like figurines repre…
Middle Classes in China: Force for Political Change or Guarantee of Stability
This article looks at the factors that contributed to the production of a Chinese middle class during the reform period and to the role that a growing group of big spenders and consumers play for China’s economic growth and political stability. It argues that a dramatic status enhancement for wage-earning Chinese professionals was among the major determinants of social change in the late 1990s and that this process happened despite the market mor…
Of Quality, Harmony, and Community: Civilization and the Middle Class in Urban China
This article discusses the rhetoric and practices of China's middle-class “community building” (shequ jianshe, as the campaign to reorganize urban residential communities that started in the late 1990s is called), and the role of suzhi (quality) in building models of “harmonious” (hexie) coexistence through new forms of community governance. By investigating the official discourse on community and harmony and the self-representation of middle-cla…
Fabriquer une communauté: Gestion des évolutions sociales dans les villes chinoises
Basé sur les résultats de plusieurs années de recherche de terrain dans différentes villes chinoises, cet article se penche sur les effets de la réforme du logement urbain et de la réorganisation de la ville chinoise sur la reconnaissance des droits des citoyens. Son objectif est double. On mettra d'abord en évidence la relation directe qui existe entre la volonté gouvernementale de préserver la stabilité sociale et la nouvelle carte d’occupation…
Residential Space and Collective Interest Formation in Beijing's Housing Disputes
This article investigates the interest structure that leads to collective conflicts over the protection of private property in middle-class residential compounds in Beijing. The departure from a work-unit dominated social landscape means that work and residence are now de-linked and the new private residential compounds create communities of consumers, not of producers. Individual status is formed in the context of local socialization patterns in…
China's Challenges in the Twenty-First Century . Joseph Y. S. Cheng
Governance in China . Jude Howell
À la recherche d'une ombre chinoise: Le mouvement pour la démocratie en Chine (1919-2004) (In Search of a Chinese Shadow: The Democracy Movement in China (1919-2004)) . Jean-Philippe Béja
Creating an Urban Middle Class: Social Engineering in Beijing
Creating an Urban Middle Class: Social Engineering in Beijing
Of Quality, Harmony, and Community: Civilization and the Middle Class in Urban China
This article discusses the rhetoric and practices of China's middle-class “community building” (shequ jianshe, as the campaign to reorganize urban residential communities that started in the late 1990s is called), and the role of suzhi (quality) in building models of “harmonious” (hexie) coexistence through new forms of community governance. By investigating the official discourse on community and harmony and the self-representation of middle-cla…
Gentrifying China's Urbanization? Why Culture and Capital Aren't Enough
China's urban areas are expanding and changing, with significant physical and social consequences. The analysis of such consequences often constructs the violence and demolition that precedes the redevelopment of villages and neighbourhoods as the direct result of the authoritarian nature of the Chinese state. Such violence is visible in countless cases where the state prevails over the rights of homeowners, farmers or simple citizens in the proc…
Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces: Examples of Migrants in the City in the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh
Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to cities. Diverging power geometries and relations are constantly negotiated and (re)produced in the soc…
No Worse off? The governance impacts of compensating for land takings in China
We examine the impacts of compensation not only on land-losers' \nsubsequent livelihoods, but also on distributions, governance and \norganisational capacity, social positioning, and ability to live the \nsorts of lives farmers value. The power of this encompassing \nperspective to reveal complex, far reaching consequences of \ndifferent compensation arrangements is illustrated by qualitative \nresearch in three wealthy jurisdictions that trialle…
Middle Classes in China: Force for Political Change or Guarantee of Stability
This article looks at the factors that contributed to the production of a Chinese middle class during the reform period and to the role that a growing group of big spenders and consumers play for China’s economic growth and political stability. It argues that a dramatic status enhancement for wage-earning Chinese professionals was among the major determinants of social change in the late 1990s and that this process happened despite the market mor…
The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution
Environmental pollution poses serious challenges for China, including to its economy as well as public health. The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution looks at how China's Communist Party-state addresses these problems and how Chinese citizens have coped with and expressed their concerns about living with chronic, worsening pollution
Fabriquer une communauté: Gestion des évolutions sociales dans les villes chinoises
Basé sur les résultats de plusieurs années de recherche de terrain dans différentes villes chinoises, cet article se penche sur les effets de la réforme du logement urbain et de la réorganisation de la ville chinoise sur la reconnaissance des droits des citoyens. Son objectif est double. On mettra d'abord en évidence la relation directe qui existe entre la volonté gouvernementale de préserver la stabilité sociale et la nouvelle carte d’occupation…
Creating an Urban Middle Class: Social Engineering in Beijing
Residential Space and Collective Interest Formation in Beijing's Housing Disputes
This article investigates the interest structure that leads to collective conflicts over the protection of private property in middle-class residential compounds in Beijing. The departure from a work-unit dominated social landscape means that work and residence are now de-linked and the new private residential compounds create communities of consumers, not of producers. Individual status is formed in the context of local socialization patterns in…
China's Challenges in the Twenty-First Century . Joseph Y. S. Cheng
Governance in China . Jude Howell
À la recherche d'une ombre chinoise: Le mouvement pour la démocratie en Chine (1919-2004) (In Search of a Chinese Shadow: The Democracy Movement in China (1919-2004)) . Jean-Philippe Béja
Fabriquer une communauté: Gestion des évolutions sociales dans les villes chinoises
Basé sur les résultats de plusieurs années de recherche de terrain dans différentes villes chinoises, cet article se penche sur les effets de la réforme du logement urbain et de la réorganisation de la ville chinoise sur la reconnaissance des droits des citoyens. Son objectif est double. On mettra d'abord en évidence la relation directe qui existe entre la volonté gouvernementale de préserver la stabilité sociale et la nouvelle carte d’occupation…
Middle Classes in China: Force for Political Change or Guarantee of Stability
This article looks at the factors that contributed to the production of a Chinese middle class during the reform period and to the role that a growing group of big spenders and consumers play for China’s economic growth and political stability. It argues that a dramatic status enhancement for wage-earning Chinese professionals was among the major determinants of social change in the late 1990s and that this process happened despite the market mor…
Of Quality, Harmony, and Community: Civilization and the Middle Class in Urban China
This article discusses the rhetoric and practices of China's middle-class “community building” (shequ jianshe, as the campaign to reorganize urban residential communities that started in the late 1990s is called), and the role of suzhi (quality) in building models of “harmonious” (hexie) coexistence through new forms of community governance. By investigating the official discourse on community and harmony and the self-representation of middle-cla…
China’s Peasants and Workers: Changing Class Identities
As well as the very visible revival of ancestral halls and ancestors' temples across rural China, villages in Guangdong's rapidly urbanizing countryside invariably feature small tudigong (Earth God) shrines, inhabited by terracotta or timber figures like the one in Figure 2.1, and generally located at the gates of the villages' residential areas or in visible corners of the village (Dell-Orto, 2002). These smallish, 'grandpa'-like figurines repre…
Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces: Examples of Migrants in the City in the Pearl River Delta, China, and Dhaka, Bangladesh
Internal migration within Asian countries and international migration to, within, and out of Asia have been on the rise throughout the past decades. As types and pathways of migration, migrants' sociocultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, and their transnational and translocal trajectories become increasingly diverse, a majority of them move to cities. Diverging power geometries and relations are constantly negotiated and (re)produced in the soc…
Il risveglio dei diritti? Un dibattito sul lavoro in Cina
In the past two decades, much has been written about China's status as the new «factory of the world». In particular, much emphasis has been placed on how global capitalism, with the connivance of the Chinese authorities, was able to exploit China's workers, unleashing a global "race to the bottom" in labour standards. In such a context, the Chinese workers have usually been described as passive victims "under assault" by the forces of globalizat…
A New Chinese Land Reform
On 3 April 2013, the People's Daily published a commentary on the violent death of two protesting farmers in Henan, crushed in two separate incidents by vehicles used to clear their land for development. 'Besides the open questions about the administrative violations,' wrote the author, 'there remain other things to be asked: has the expropriation followed the appropriate procedures? Is it legal to build a hotel or any permanent structure on basi…
The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution
Environmental pollution poses serious challenges for China, including to its economy as well as public health. The China Story Yearbook 2015: Pollution looks at how China's Communist Party-state addresses these problems and how Chinese citizens have coped with and expressed their concerns about living with chronic, worsening pollution
Gentrifying China's Urbanization? Why Culture and Capital Aren't Enough
China's urban areas are expanding and changing, with significant physical and social consequences. The analysis of such consequences often constructs the violence and demolition that precedes the redevelopment of villages and neighbourhoods as the direct result of the authoritarian nature of the Chinese state. Such violence is visible in countless cases where the state prevails over the rights of homeowners, farmers or simple citizens in the proc…
No Worse off? The governance impacts of compensating for land takings in China
We examine the impacts of compensation not only on land-losers' \nsubsequent livelihoods, but also on distributions, governance and \norganisational capacity, social positioning, and ability to live the \nsorts of lives farmers value. The power of this encompassing \nperspective to reveal complex, far reaching consequences of \ndifferent compensation arrangements is illustrated by qualitative \nresearch in three wealthy jurisdictions that trialle…
Political science (14 works) · China (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (5 works)