Landscapes of state capitalism
Reconciling the vernacular, national development imaginaries, and green capital accumulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20153355 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Stokols (0000-0002-8501-4780, Department of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge Massachusetts USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-115 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0129-7619 • E-ISSN: 1467-9493 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sjtg.12574 |
| OpenAlex | W4405125100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 48 |
This article theorizes ‘state capitalist landscapes’ as a unique spatial form shaped by state‐owned developers that reconcile economic goals with national development imperatives and symbolic national imaginaries. State capitalist landscapes, I argue, integrate economically productive spaces with natural spaces to symbolize imaginaries of the nation. Through an inductive case study methodology, this article surveys three industrial zones developed and/or under development by state owned developers: Singapore's Jurong, China's Xiong’an New Area, and Thailand's Wangchan Valley. In each of these cases, natural landscapes are integrated into new economic zones in order to construct specific symbolic and/or political imaginaries of the nation: Singapore's ‘garden city’, China's ‘ecological civilization’, and in Thailand the ‘sufficiency economy’. By bringing together work on ‘infrastructural landscapes’ and ‘state capitalism’ this paper provides a concrete material perspective to contemporary discussions of state capitalism, while also bringing more grounded, political and institutional perspectives to landscape infrastructure studies, which has tended to set aside discussions of institutional forms or national political dynamics in a focus on form and materiality of infrastructure landscapes worldwide
Aesthetics · Capitalism · China · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Materiality (auditing) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Vernacular · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |