Relationality and territoriality

Rethinking policy circulation of industrial heritage reuse in Chongqing, China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5700729
AutoresJie Chen (0000-0002-9254-4413, Tongji University, autor correspondente), Bruce Judd (0000-0001-9556-7736, UNSW Sydney)
Ano2021
Volume27
Fascículo1
Páginas16-38
Data de publicação2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13527258.2020.1765188
OpenAlexW3026704856
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências citadas68

Following the adoption of a socialist market economy in 1978, the Chinese city has accommodated radical changes in its urban industrial landscapes. In contrast with the large-scale reuse of industrial landscapes in the eastern Chinese cities, inland China has been witnessing the rapid disappearance of industrial heritage. The disparity of heritage conservation outcomes across urban China raises questions about why some leading cities conserve their heritage better or more readily than others, and why the same planning ideas, policies, and practice borrowed from elsewhere cannot be easily transferred or copied in the western cities. This paper applies the relational and territorial approach developed in the literature of urban policy transfer and mobilities to heritage studies. By conducting a case study in Chongqing, this paper examines how industrial heritage reuse has travelled as a global concept with its Chinese precedents to Chongqing, and why the idea has been diluted in the local context. The Chongqing case reveals that the heritage idea has travelled globally and nationally from eastern China and has mutated in respond to local circumstances. It is thus argued that the consequence of industrial heritage reuse can best be understood through a combined approach of relationality and territoriality

Archaeology · China · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Environmental planning · Geography · Industrial heritage · Political science · Reuse · Sociology · Territoriality · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Law