Rethinking displacement in peri-urban transformation in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4139701 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Shih (0000-0002-9197-9386, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 389-406 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0308518x16670158 |
| OpenAlex | W2522109752 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article examines the spatiality of peri-urban villages in Guangzhou, offering an analysis that critically rethinks displacement as a phenomenon that need not be bracketed by the narrow spatial understanding of "physical uprootedness." Building on ethnographic fieldwork research in Yonghe village, this article identifies and examines three mechanisms and forms of marginalization and dispossession that Chinese villagers have experienced during in situ urbanization: (1) large-scale expropriation of farmland to economic development zones in the mid-1980s; (2) subjection of collective assets to industrial land use by the planning authority since 1991; (3) on-going exposure to industrial pollution. The analysis shows that each of these factors is contingent on the previous one, and that villagers' engagement with recent injustices cannot be separated from their disadvantaged positions in the past. This article argues that, while overt displacement by state-led development is a clear violation of the "right to the city," in situ marginalization and dispossession without physical uprooting is equally problematic and exploitative
China · Development economics · Disadvantaged · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Expropriation · Geography · Political science · Sociology · Urbanization · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urbanization and City Planning
Micro-regeneration and participatory governance
Dispossessed and displaced
Socio ‐ Spatial Reconfiguration of Rural – Urban Interstices
Theorising with urban China
Lived Space of Urban Development
Land dispossession, rural gentrification and displacement
Beyond Planned Developments
The interaction between local state and village collective in China’s market-oriented land reform
Beyond displacement – exploring the variegated social impacts of urban redevelopment
Customary land tenure institutions and private capital relations in peri-urban Malawi
Place and displacement
Exploring synergies between the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development and involuntary resettlement guidelines
Selective scaling through ideational alignment
Peri-urban land conflict in Mek'ele City, Ethiopia
Governing resettlement under the new state politics
Producing Inevitability
A new model of village urbanization? Coordinative governance of state-village relations in Guangzhou City, China
Process analysis of inter-governmental negotiation in delineating permanent prime farmland around cities
Measuring the impact of government intervention on the spatial variation of market-oriented urban redevelopment activities in Shenzhen, China
Understanding the change in the social networks of residential groups affected by urban renewal
Beyond Growth Machine Politics
Making Justice the Subject of Resettlement Planning
In‐Situ Marginalisation
A social–ecological approach for identifying and mapping ecosystem service trade-offs and conservation priorities in peri-urban areas
Adding new narratives to the urban imagination
The Double Bind of Displacement
Bypass urbanism
Broadening equitable planning
Everyday speculation in the remaking of peri-urban livelihoods and landscapes
Reformulating theories of 'accumulation by dispossession
Gentrification and Its Variegated Emplacements
Market-Induced Displacement and Its Afterlives
One step ahead in China
City-space
Agents and Victims in South China
Land Expropriation and Rural Conflicts in China
Is China Abolishing the Hukou System?
Disabling Globalization
Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World
On the shifting spatial logics of socioeconomic regulation in post-1949 China
Crossing the 50 Percent Population Rubicon
The Changing Right to the City
The Right to the City and Critical Reflections on China's Property Rights Activism
China's Emerging Neoliberal Urbanism
The Subsumption of Space and the Spatiality of Subsumption
Reproducing Spaces of Chinese Urbanisation
Taming Tibet
Brief History of Neoliberalism
On Rural Urbanization in China
The 21st-Century Metropolis
India's Urban Revolution
The Evolving Law of Disputed Relocation
The Urban, Politics and Subject Formation
Two Waves of Gentrification and Emerging Rights Issues in Guangzhou, China
In Situ Urbanization in Rural China
Grounding displacement
Contesting Spatial Modernity in Late-Socialist China
Urbanization through dispossession
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |