Relationality and territoriality

Rethinking policy circulation of industrial heritage reuse in Chongqing, China

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5700729
AutoresJie Chen (0000-0002-9254-4413, Tongji University, autor de correspondencia), Bruce Judd (0000-0001-9556-7736, UNSW Sydney)
Año2021
Volumen27
Número1
Páginas16-38
Fecha de publicación2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13527258.2020.1765188
OpenAlexW3026704856
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas68

Following the adoption of a socialist market economy in 1978, the Chinese city has accommodated radical changes in its urban industrial landscapes. In contrast with the large-scale reuse of industrial landscapes in the eastern Chinese cities, inland China has been witnessing the rapid disappearance of industrial heritage. The disparity of heritage conservation outcomes across urban China raises questions about why some leading cities conserve their heritage better or more readily than others, and why the same planning ideas, policies, and practice borrowed from elsewhere cannot be easily transferred or copied in the western cities. This paper applies the relational and territorial approach developed in the literature of urban policy transfer and mobilities to heritage studies. By conducting a case study in Chongqing, this paper examines how industrial heritage reuse has travelled as a global concept with its Chinese precedents to Chongqing, and why the idea has been diluted in the local context. The Chongqing case reveals that the heritage idea has travelled globally and nationally from eastern China and has mutated in respond to local circumstances. It is thus argued that the consequence of industrial heritage reuse can best be understood through a combined approach of relationality and territoriality

Archaeology · China · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Economic geography · Economics · Economy · Environmental planning · Geography · Industrial heritage · Political science · Reuse · Sociology · Territoriality · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Engineering · Law