J C Laurence
Biographic Data
| ID | 3589596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J C Laurence |
| GIVEN NAMES | J C |
| FAMILY NAME | Laurence |
| SIGNATURE | LAURENCE J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Akron |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5402-1435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 533 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Secularism in Comparative Perspective
The 21 st -century impact of European Muslim minorities on ‘Official Islam’ in the Muslim-majority world
The article argues that the growth of religious service provision directed at the Muslim diaspora in Europe has led to greater professionalization and pluralism within the Islam state in Muslim countries. Contemporary Muslim governments have claimed a monopoly over public prayer and religious education and have heavily invested in a network of infrastructure and services – the Islam state. The recent breakthrough of Islamist parties into governme…
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims
This book traces how governments across Western Europe have responded to the growing presence of Muslim immigrants in their countries over the past fifty years. Drawing on hundreds of in-depth interviews with government officials and religious leaders in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Turkey, the book challenges the widespread notion that Europe's Muslim minorities represent a threat to liberal democracy…
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims
The Emancipation of Europe's Muslims
The Chinese city in transition
The Great Urban Transformation. Politics of Land and Property in China
The Great Urban Transformation. Politics of Land and Property in China, You-Tien Hsing, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2010). xiv + 258 pp. US$80.00 (hbk). ISBN 978 0 19 956804 8. China's stunnin
The Corporatist Antecedent of Contemporary State-Islam Relations
This article explores the theoretical underpinnings of the state-led establishment of quasi-monopolistic Islam Councils in Western Europe. The author argues that national consultations representing the Muslim faith in seven European countries share institutional characteristics with 19th and 20th century corporatist arrangements with Labor and Jewish Communities, and pursue similar goals of rendering faith and group ideology compatible with natio…
An African Enclave in China
The paper, by three geographers, including a noted U.S.-based senior specialist on China's urban and human realm, presents the first known academic study of the country's African migrants. The authors examine the emergence of a new African community (primarily traders from West Africa) in the Xiaobei urban district of Guangzhou City, arguing that Xiaobei is not only a space for transacting transnational business but also a place of sojourn where …
Nicolas Sarkozy's Faith in the Republic
President Sarkozy has defied numerous French taboos regarding the role of religion in the Republic. While campaigning, he told journalists that he finds solace in church on Sundays. But since taking office, he has more often been seen visiting mosques and synagogues: he didn't publicly celebrate Ash Wednesday, but he brought journalists along to watch him break the Ramadan fast. In issuing a book on religious faith two years before running for pr…
Nicolas Sarkozy’s Faith in the Republic
Religion, which never intervenes directly in the government of American society, should therefore be considered as the first of their political institutions, for although it did not give them the taste for liberty, it singularly facilitates their use thereof... I do not know if all Americans have faith in their religion—for who can read the secrets of the heart?—but I am sure that they think it necessary to the maintenance of republican instituti…
Mesurer les discriminations et promouvoir la diversité
Partant d'une lecture du texte précédent, les auteurs réagissent ici à son argumentaire, pointent les difficultés qui restent sous-jacentes, proposent des alternatives, détaillent les actions qui permettent déjà de mener des politiques de promotion active à la française
The Challenges of Multiculturalism in Advanced Democracies
When Ways of Life Collide: Multiculturalism and Its Discontents in the Netherlands.By Paul M. Sniderman and Louk Hagendoorn. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 176p. $25.95
From China's Urban Social Space to Social and Environmental Justice
A senior American specialist on China and noted geographer argues that the preoccupation of China geographers' with empirical analyses of that country's dramatic economic, social, and urban transformation over the last two decades—usually explained in terms of the now familiar quadruple forces of globalization, marketization, deregulation, and decentralization—should be broadened to reflect a concern for the problems of disadvantaged groups impac…
Social Space and Governance in Urban China
Integrating Islam
The State of the Field of Urban China
The field of urban China has experienced rapid growth since the mid-1970s. In this special issue, the status of the field is reviewed through the disciplinary lenses of history, geography, anthropology, sociology, political science, and urban planning. These disciplines have contributed to the bulk of the literature on urban China, covering a wide range of subjects. It is suggested that more interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdiscipli…
China's Urban Population Statistics
The paper assesses major problems that have made China's urban population statistics confusing and temporally incomparable: lack of geographically standardized areas; absence of a set of consistent criteria for the enumeration of urban population in censuses; and availability of diverse sources of urban statistics published by different government agencies for different purposes. After identifying seven major sources for China's urban population …
Developing China's West
(2005). Developing China's West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development. Y. M. Yeung and Jianfa Shen, eds.; Agricultural Trade and Policy in China. Scott D. Rozelle and Daniel A. Sumner, eds. Eurasian Geography and Economics: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 77-80
From the ÉlysÃ(c)e Salon to the Table of the Republic
The creation of a representative council for observant Muslims—the Conseil Français du Culte Musulman—is a landmark accomplishment of Fifth Republic France. It is a strong reaffirmation of the republican framework in which the representatives of organized religion are expected to operate in lay France. How did a country whose political system has been notoriously allergic to organized religion decide to assemble and embed Muslim leaders within a …
L'imposition de l'État? DÃ(c)bat
Jonathan Laurence: Jean-Pierre Chevènement a fait savoir que l’État n’imposerait pas ses propres choix dans sa consultation avec l’islam. Vous avez dit, Monsieur Billon, que l’action de Sarkozy avec le CFCM avait pourtant quelque chose de « brutal » et de « cynique ». Quelle distinction faites vous par rapport à votre travail ? Y a-t-il aujourd’hui des contraventions à la laïcité qui n’existaient pas du temps de Chevènement
Le Conseil français du culte musulman
Politicians and civil servants charged with the task of helping a “French Islam” emerge in late twentieth-century France faced a vast, transnational network of more than 1600 Muslim associations and mosques in dozens of French towns and cities. During the colonial era, Islam in French Algeria was exempted from the 1905 separation of church and state, and no one at the time imagined that one century later, 5 million Muslims would inhabit metropoli…
Changing China
Urban Transformation in China, 1949 – 2000
Through a review of the literature, the author identifies the achievements as well as the deficiencies in the study of China's urbanization and urbanism in the second half of the 20th century. A number of issues that merit scholarly research are suggested and the need for theorization is emphasized. During the last half century, Chinese cities underwent dramatic transformations as a consequence of two major systemic changes. During the first thre…
The Handbook of International Migration
Economic Restructuring and Suburbanization in China
As in other countries, suburbanization in China occurred after the cities had experienced a period of sustained industrial and population growth. This study examines suburbanization in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, and Dalian. As a result of economic restructuring, the urban core registered net population loss from 1982 to 1990 because of decentralization while the inner suburbs gained population. Among the forces driving suburbanization were mark…
Urbanisation from Below
Urbanisation in China during the Maoist period was largely a consequence of centralised planning and Soviet-type industrialisation dominated by the growth of cities. The towns lost their commercial function and stagnated. Since the reforms of 1978, the growth of towns has emerged as a new force of Chinese urbanisation. This case study of the growth of towns in Jiangsu province shows that enterprises in the towns have attracted a large number of d…
Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese
The Kong Becoming China multi-volume series is published for an international readership. It aims to provide both expert analysis and the documentary basis for an informed understanding of Hong Kong's transition as a free society and capitalist economy toward socialist Chinese sovereignty under the country, Two systems formula. This series explores the crucial dimensions of Hong Kong's current developments in this transitional process, as well as…
Integrating Islam
An African Enclave in China
The paper, by three geographers, including a noted U.S.-based senior specialist on China's urban and human realm, presents the first known academic study of the country's African migrants. The authors examine the emergence of a new African community (primarily traders from West Africa) in the Xiaobei urban district of Guangzhou City, arguing that Xiaobei is not only a space for transacting transnational business but also a place of sojourn where …
Administrative Changes and Urban Population in China
The lack of well-defined and standardized terms for urban settlements in China has created much confusion among Chinese as well as Western scholars regarding the size of China's urban population and the nation's urbanization level. In this paper we identify the major types of China's urban population and explain their relationships to areal units. The aggregate population of the officially designated cities and towns, which has been widely used i…
Urbanization in China
Urban Transition and Interstate Relations in a Dynamic Post-Soviet Borderland
Two noted American geographers examine transition in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (a de facto Soviet protectorate in the 1930s and early 1940s) within the context of that region's strategic position. The paper, based on field work exploring urbanization in the People's Republic of China, investigates the area's role as a bridgehead and corridor for emerging economic relations between China and the neighboring republics of Central Asia. Th…
Development of Towns in China
This article examines the growth functions and population changes of Chinas towns in recent years using Guangdong Province as a case study. We examine the relationship between towns and the nations rural economic growth with emphasis on the roles of towns in rural population migration. To gain a better understanding of how the town economy functions we compare the employment structure in two distinct types of towns: county capitals and market tow…
Chinese Imperial City Planning
Discusses what is known from textual and archaeological evidence about every Chinese imperial capital, from the earliest times to the end of the 20th century. It explains the fundamental architectural principles and the visual characteristics of imperial planning in China
Physical Geography of China
Chinese Cities
This is an introduction to a special issue of Urban Geography devoted to urbanization in China particularly the role of urbanization in the development process that has occurred in the post-Mao period since 1976. The papers included here were presented at a conference on Asian urbanization held at the University of Akron Ohio April 19-20 1985. The authors of this introduction identify a number of important issues related to urbanization in China …
The Great Urban Transformation. Politics of Land and Property in China
The Great Urban Transformation. Politics of Land and Property in China, You-Tien Hsing, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2010). xiv + 258 pp. US$80.00 (hbk). ISBN 978 0 19 956804 8. China's stunnin
Beijing
From China's Urban Social Space to Social and Environmental Justice
A senior American specialist on China and noted geographer argues that the preoccupation of China geographers' with empirical analyses of that country's dramatic economic, social, and urban transformation over the last two decades—usually explained in terms of the now familiar quadruple forces of globalization, marketization, deregulation, and decentralization—should be broadened to reflect a concern for the problems of disadvantaged groups impac…
The State of the Field of Urban China
The field of urban China has experienced rapid growth since the mid-1970s. In this special issue, the status of the field is reviewed through the disciplinary lenses of history, geography, anthropology, sociology, political science, and urban planning. These disciplines have contributed to the bulk of the literature on urban China, covering a wide range of subjects. It is suggested that more interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdiscipli…
Urban Development in Modern China
This is a collection of studies that illustrate the geographical political and economic aspects of the Chinese city beginning with urbanization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and emphasizing contemporary urban patterns. Topics covered include recent growth and change in Chinas urban system policies favoring the growth of smaller urban places between 1949 and 1979 trends in urban planning and development and causes of urban s…
China's Coastal Cities
The coastal region of China has undergone remarkable physical and social transformation upon the implementation of the open policy of the government in 1978. This book ( Chinas Coastal Cities ) is the culmination of a lengthy collaborative research project among scholars in China Hong Kong Canada and other countries and attempts to assess the impact of coastal zone development policies in Chinas modernization. The chapters present a historical ba…
China's Urban Population Statistics
The paper assesses major problems that have made China's urban population statistics confusing and temporally incomparable: lack of geographically standardized areas; absence of a set of consistent criteria for the enumeration of urban population in censuses; and availability of diverse sources of urban statistics published by different government agencies for different purposes. After identifying seven major sources for China's urban population …
Preliminary Results of the 1982 Census in China
The State Statistical Bureau of China announced in October 1982 the preliminary results of the 1982 census. It was revealed that the population of China including Taiwan was 1026503884 persons. The 1982 census differed from the 1953 and 1964 Chinese censuses in 2 ways: coverage of demographic variables was much broader and modern census taking techniques including computers were used. During the past 3 years the State Statistical Bureau released …
From the ÉlysÃ(c)e Salon to the Table of the Republic
The creation of a representative council for observant Muslims—the Conseil Français du Culte Musulman—is a landmark accomplishment of Fifth Republic France. It is a strong reaffirmation of the republican framework in which the representatives of organized religion are expected to operate in lay France. How did a country whose political system has been notoriously allergic to organized religion decide to assemble and embed Muslim leaders within a …
China's Traditional Rural Architecture
The Corporatist Antecedent of Contemporary State-Islam Relations
This article explores the theoretical underpinnings of the state-led establishment of quasi-monopolistic Islam Councils in Western Europe. The author argues that national consultations representing the Muslim faith in seven European countries share institutional characteristics with 19th and 20th century corporatist arrangements with Labor and Jewish Communities, and pursue similar goals of rendering faith and group ideology compatible with natio…
Interbasin Water Transfer in China
The Environment
Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China
Recent Developments in Chinese Geographical Research
Oil from the Wells of China
Chinese Walled Cities
Urban Development in Modern China
Modern Industrial Cities . Bruce M. Stave, editor; Optimization in Locational and Transport Analysis . Alan G. Wilson, Jose D. Coelho, Sally M. Macgill, and Huw C. W. L. Williams; Land Use in America …
Interbasin Water Transfer in China
The Environment
Preliminary Results of the 1982 Census in China
The State Statistical Bureau of China announced in October 1982 the preliminary results of the 1982 census. It was revealed that the population of China including Taiwan was 1026503884 persons. The 1982 census differed from the 1953 and 1964 Chinese censuses in 2 ways: coverage of demographic variables was much broader and modern census taking techniques including computers were used. During the past 3 years the State Statistical Bureau released …
Urban Development in Modern China
This is a collection of studies that illustrate the geographical political and economic aspects of the Chinese city beginning with urbanization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and emphasizing contemporary urban patterns. Topics covered include recent growth and change in Chinas urban system policies favoring the growth of smaller urban places between 1949 and 1979 trends in urban planning and development and causes of urban s…
China's Island Frontier
China
China
Chinese Cities
This is an introduction to a special issue of Urban Geography devoted to urbanization in China particularly the role of urbanization in the development process that has occurred in the post-Mao period since 1976. The papers included here were presented at a conference on Asian urbanization held at the University of Akron Ohio April 19-20 1985. The authors of this introduction identify a number of important issues related to urbanization in China …
Urbanization in China
Administrative Changes and Urban Population in China
The lack of well-defined and standardized terms for urban settlements in China has created much confusion among Chinese as well as Western scholars regarding the size of China's urban population and the nation's urbanization level. In this paper we identify the major types of China's urban population and explain their relationships to areal units. The aggregate population of the officially designated cities and towns, which has been widely used i…
Physical Geography of China
China's Traditional Rural Architecture
Urbanization and Urban Policies in Pacific Asia
Urbanization in Asia
Urbanization in Asia
This book is a product of the International Conference on Asian Urbanization held in Akron Ohio in April 1985. It contains 20 papers including an initial description of trends and prospects and a review of the literature. Country-specific reviews are then presented for India Pakistan China and Taiwan. The remaining papers are grouped under the general headings of regional and metropolitan effects of urbanization case studies in urban development …
Urbanization in Asia
China's Vernacular Architecture
Chinese Imperial City Planning
Discusses what is known from textual and archaeological evidence about every Chinese imperial capital, from the earliest times to the end of the 20th century. It explains the fundamental architectural principles and the visual characteristics of imperial planning in China
China's Coastal Cities
The coastal region of China has undergone remarkable physical and social transformation upon the implementation of the open policy of the government in 1978. This book ( Chinas Coastal Cities ) is the culmination of a lengthy collaborative research project among scholars in China Hong Kong Canada and other countries and attempts to assess the impact of coastal zone development policies in Chinas modernization. The chapters present a historical ba…
Geography (42 works) · China (36 works) · Political science (29 works) · Economic geography (28 works) · Economics (26 works) · Sociology (25 works) · Archaeology (24 works) · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance (24 works) · Economic growth (18 works) · Law (16 works)