The challenges of China–India comparative urban studies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20210111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark W Frazier (0009-0006-6533-7300, New School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 319-332 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-5914 • E-ISSN: 1479-5922 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1479591421000164 |
| OpenAlex | W3161999315 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 39 |
Scholarship on urban China and urban India has been prolific. Studies have separately addressed urban processes of migration, spatial transformation, governance, infrastructure, land conflicts, policing, and more. However, research on these areas has rarely intersected. This article discusses the challenges of comparison in China–India urban studies, and examines recent works through an analysis of “styles and scales of comparison.” Some seek to explain national-level variations by studying selected cities in each country. Others identify convergence and divergence in the context of broader global processes, and some incorporate historical trajectories to structure a temporal comparison. Because the most rapid periods of urbanization in the first half of the twenty-first century will take place in India and China and will soon account almost half of the planet's urban population, studies of urbanization in India and China are of great importance. Careful reflection on the study of urbanization in China–India studies can also re-center urban studies away from the historically dominant American/Eurocentric perspectives
China · Corporate governance · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Geography · Political science · Population · Regional science · Scholarship · Sociology · Urbanization · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Demography · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Studies
Political Order in Changing Societies
Comparative Area Studies
Introduction
New State Spaces
Ordinary Cities
Economy and Society
Politics in Time
Worlding Cities
The Global City
Economy and Society
Informal Institutions and Comparative Politics
State restructuring and emerging patterns of subnational policy-making and governance in China and India
Scripting Indian and Chinese urban spatial transformation
The Political Heritage of Textile Districts
How Neoliberal Is China's Reform? The Origins of Change during Transition
Localizing the Production of Global Cities
The Changing Right to the City
Beyond regimes
Contesting the Indian city
Thinking cities through elsewhere
Introduction—Comparative Urbanism
What is urban about critical urban theory
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Brief History of Neoliberalism
Subaltern Urbanization
Cities in a World of Cities
Governing the Urban in China and India
Presidential Address
Big Structures, Large Processes, Huge Comparisons
From Chicago to China and India
Insurgent Citizenship in an Era of Global Urban Peripheries
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |