From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents. Graduated provision is the delivery of public goods informed by the teleological ideology of urbanization, and by neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics, and has been employed as an answer to the challenges of making public goods, such as welfare provisions, public parks, education, and senior care, equally accessible to all in recently urbanized communities. 

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From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents. Graduated provision is the delivery of public goods informed by the teleological ideology of urbanization, and by neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics, and has been employed as an answer to the challenges of making public goods, such as welfare provisions, public parks, education, and senior care, equally accessible to all in recently urbanized communities. 

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From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

by Anne-Christine Trémon
From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China
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From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China

by Anne-Christine Trémon

Overview

Illuminating the complex processes of China’s uneven urbanization through the lens of the transition from village commons to public goods, this book is set in three urbanized villages in Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Xi’an, which have experienced similar demographic explosions and dramatic changes to their landscapes, the livelihoods of its inhabitants, and the power structures governing their residents. Graduated provision is the delivery of public goods informed by the teleological ideology of urbanization, and by neoliberalism with Chinese characteristics, and has been employed as an answer to the challenges of making public goods, such as welfare provisions, public parks, education, and senior care, equally accessible to all in recently urbanized communities. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781800739017
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Publication date: 06/09/2023
Series: Dislocations , #34
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 284
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Anne-Christine Trémon is director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She has recently published Diaspora Space-Time: Transformations of a Chinese Emigrant Community (Cornell University Press, 2022).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on Anonymization

Glossary

Introduction: Graduated Provisioning in China’s Urbanized Villages

Chapter 1. Three Villages-in-the-city

Chapter 2. From Villages Commons to Public Urban Goods

Chapter 3. Creating Visual and Public Order

Chapter 4. Building Moral Communities

Chapter 5. Segregated Public Space and the Right to the City

Conclusion: Exclusion and Rivalry, Lasting Inequalities and Neoliberal Provision

References

Index

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