Broken Promises of Capitalism's Wonderland
Representing Uneven Development in Contemporary China and Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2370673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fernando Ortiz-Moya (0000-0002-1390-2519, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, corresponding author), Nieves Moreno (0000-0003-1111-3943, TAI University of Arts Madrid, Spain) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 745-759 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0896920519860187 |
| OpenAlex | W2954361747 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 45 |
China and Japan are currently in opposing stages of the expansion process of capitalism. While China is at the centre of the global accumulation of surplus capital through urbanisation and industrial expansion-i.e. the creation stage-Japan has been stagnant in recent decades and its periphery is de-urbanising-i.e. the destruction stage. Consequences of the global spatialisation of capital, however, are similar in both cases, resulting in growing social inequalities. This article uses films to explore the influence of this process on popular culture, specifically focusing on a Chinese film-Jia Zhangke's A Touch of Sin (2013)-and a Japanese one-Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's Sketches of Kaitan City (2010). The two films are composed of interconnected segments that portray the social by-products of the spatialisation of capitalism. We argue that, despite the apparent dissimilarities, this process creates parallel realities consequential to the broken promises of advancement made by the economic system. Ultimately, this generates a distorted social space that normalises the new, worsened living conditions resulting from capitalism's continual expansion
Capitalism · China · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Urbanization · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · History · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Law
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Japan, who governs?
Visual and Other Pleasures
Social Justice and the City
Miti and the Japanese Miracle
Against the Law
Uneven Development
The spatial-temporal hierarchy of regional inequality of China
Space and place
Ghostly Matters
Cruel Optimism
The Global City
Rising powers and the drivers of uneven global development
On the shifting spatial logics of socioeconomic regulation in post-1949 China
Regional Inequality in China, 1978-2006
Regional urbanization and third wave cities
The incredible shrinking Japan
Socialism with Chinese characteristics’
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society
Extracting Value from the City
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Constructed Revolutions
Strategizing urbanism in the era of neoliberalization
Global cities and the geographical transfer of value
Irresistible Empire
Revisiting the Urbanization of Capital
Socio-spatial Inequalities and Social Cohesion in European Cities
Postneoliberalism and its Malcontents
Economic Transformation and Its Political Discontents in China
Filming industrial Japan
Rebel cities
Did Government Decentralization Cause China's Economic Miracle
The Dilemma of Eudaemonic Legitimacy in Post-Mao China
Rural-urban migration and gender division of labor in transitional China
Precarious Work in Japan
Variegated neoliberalization
Expulsions
Mundane hauntings
Just-in-Time Urbanization? Managing Migration, Citizenship, and Schooling in the Chinese City
The Phoenix Rises
Thirteen Things You Need to Know About Neoliberalism
A Consumers' Republic
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |