Understanding Scalar Politics Through the Framework of Relational Archipelagos
The Case of Shenzhen Fair, China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4906786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | June Wang (0000-0002-5468-6066, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 716-731 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12989 |
| OpenAlex | W3131833126 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 65 |
In this article I aim to tackle two binary readings of scale: the networked/hierarchical and the political/economic. By revisiting and reframing the concept of the archipelago, I develop a framework of relational hierarchical networks that foregrounds the mutual constitution of networks and hierarchies through a processual examination of scale production, taking the Shenzhen Fair as a case study. The fair is a valuable site for interrogating the issue of scale politics-that is, how to catapult a city into China's trading circuit, while simultaneously allowing a new epistemological construction of nationhood. I present two arguments in this study: first, territorial logic and capitalist logic are entangled in constructing networks for flows of discursive and material things, and these networks form new hierarchies of place. Second, various political and economic interests might gravitate towards different geographies through the same process of networking. I also assess how the newly produced state space is a relational archipelago that unifies formerly disparate places and sectors and enables the mobility of discursive and material things, and how the redistribution of these discourses and materials reconfigures the state space
Actor–network theory · Archipelago · China · Cognitive reframing · Constitution · Economic system · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · Law · Social Psychology · Urban Planning and Governance
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Industrial heritage reuse ideas on the move
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Three Currents of Platformization in China
The Geopolitics of Infrastructure and the Unmaking of an Island
Putting the Place in Flow Restructures
New State Spaces
Decentralized Authoritarianism in China
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China's “Soft” Centralization
Learning from Shenzhen
China's Thought Management
Ideology and Organization in Communist China
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Relational heritage sovereignty
Urban studies and thinking topologically
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Human geography without scale
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |