Agency and social construction of space under top-down planning: Resettled rural residents in China

Urban Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1541-1560

  Zhang, Min ^a   Wu, Weiping ^b   Zhong, Weijing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

agency; China; habitus; rural urban transition; social space

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PROPERTY RIGHTS; RESIDENT POPULATION; RURAL POPULATION; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; SPACE USE; TOP-DOWN APPROACH; URBANIZATION; VILLAGE;

CHINA; JIANGSU; ZHENJIANG;

EID: 85043398220     PISSN: 00420980     EISSN: 1360063X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042098017715409     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Amin A, Thrift N, (2002) Cities: Reimagining the Urban. Cambridge: Polity Press.
2. Anguelovski I, (2013) From environmental trauma to safe haven: Place attachment and place remaking in three marginalized neighborhoods of Barcelona, Boston, and Havana. City & Community 12(3): 211–237.
3. Bayat A, (2007) Radical religion and the habitus of the dispossessed: Does Islamic militancy have an urban ecology? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 31(3): 579–590.
4. Bourdieu P, (1977) Outline of a Theory of Practice. London: Cambridge University Press.
5. Bourdieu P, (1987) In Other Words: Essays Towards a Reflexive Sociology. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
6. Bourdieu P, (1989) Social space and symbolic power. Sociological Theory 7: 14–25.
7. Bray D, (2013) Urban planning goes rural: Conceptualizing the ‘new village’. China Perspectives 3: 53–62.
8. Clampet-Lundquist S, (2010) ‘Everyone had your back’: Social ties, perceived safety, and public housing relocation. City & Community 9(1): 87–108.
9. Fried M, (2000) Continuities and discontinuities of place. Journal of Environmental Psychology 20(3): 193–205.
10. Gans HJ, (1982) The Urban villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans. New York: Simon and Schuster.
11. Gotham KF, (2003) Toward an understanding of the spatiality of urban poverty: The urban poor as spatial actors. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 27(3): 723–737.
12. Gotham KF, Brumley K, (2002) Using space: Agency and identity in a public–housing development. City & Community 1(3): 267–289.
13. Hazelzet A, Wissink B, (2012) Neighborhoods, social networks, and trust in post-reform China: The case of Guangzhou. Urban Geography 33(2): 204–220.
14. He S, (2013) Evolving enclave urbanism in China and its socio-spatial implications: The case of Guangzhou. Social & Cultural Geography 14(3): 243–275.
15. Herndl CG, Licona AC, (2007) Shifting agency: Agency, kairos, and the possibilities of social action. In: Zachary M, Thralls C, (Ed.) Communicative Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Regulation of Discourse and Organizations. NY: Baywood Publishing, pp. 133–153.
16. Hoffreth S, Iceland J, (2011) Social capital in rural and urban communities. Rural Sociology 63(4): 574–598.
17. Lelandais GE, (2014) Space and identity in resistance against neoliberal urban planning in Turkey. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 38(5): 1785–1806.
18. Li J, Wang F, Wuzhati S. (2016) Urban or village residents? A case study of the spontaneous space transformation of the forced upstairs farmers’ community in Beijing. Habitat International 56: 136–146.
19. Li Y, (2012) Urban–rural interaction patterns and dynamic land use: Implications for urban–rural integration in China. Regional Environmental Change 12(4): 803–812.
20. Liu R, Wong T-C, Liu S, (2012) Peasants’ counterplots against the state monopoly of the rural urbanization process: Urban villages and ‘small property housing’ in Beijing, China. Environment and Planning A 44(5): 1219–1240.
21. Liu T, Liu H, Qi Y, (2015a) Construction land expansion and cultivated land protection in urbanizing China: Insights from national land surveys, 1996–2006. Habitat International 46: 13–22.
22. Liu Y, Li Z, Liu Y. (2015b) Growth of rural migrant enclaves in Guangzhou, China: Agency, everyday practice and social mobility. Urban Studies 52(16): 3086–3105.
23. Nasongkhla S, Sintusingha S, (2013) Social production of space in Johor Bahru. Urban Studies 50(9): 1836–1853.
24. Qian H, Wong C, (2012) Master planning under urban–rural integration: The case of Nanjing, China. Urban Policy and Research 30(4): 403–421.
25. Qian J, He S, (2012) Rethinking social power and the right to the city amidst China’s emerging urbanism. Environment and Planning A 44(12): 2801–2816.
26. Shih M, (2010) Disputed relocation and property development in Shanghai, 1990–2005. PhD dissertation, Rutgers University-Graduate School-New Brunswick.
27. Song J, (2014) Space to maneuver: Collective strategies of indigenous villagers in the urbanizing region of northwestern China. Eurasian Geography and Economics 55(4): 362–380.
28. Song J, (2015) Official relocation and self-help development: Three housing strategies under ambiguous property rights in China’s rural land development. Urban Studies 52(1): 121–137.
29. Spivak GC, (1988) Can the Subaltern Speak? London: Macmillan Education.
30. Stumpf MJ, (2012) Housing and urbanization: A socio-spatial analysis of resettlement projects in Hô Chí Minh City. Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection, Paper 1284. Available at: http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/1284.
31. Teaford JC, (2000) Urban renewal and its aftermath. Housing Policy Debate 11(2): 443–465.
32. Wiles J, (2008) Sense of home in a transnational social space: New Zealanders in London. Global Networks 8(1): 116–137.
33. Xiang B, (2000) A Community that Crosses Boundaries: The Living History of Beijing’s Zhejiang Village (kuayue bianjie de sheqiu: Beijing zhejiangcun de shenghuo shi). Beijing: Sanlian Publishing House.
34. Xu Y, Tang B, Chan EHW, (2011) State-led land requisition and transformation of rural villages in transitional China. Habitat International 35(1): 57–65.
35. Young N, (2010) Business networks, collaboration and embeddedness in local and extra-local spaces: The case of Port Hardy Canada. Sociologia Ruralis 50: 392–408.
36. Zhang L, (2001) Strangers in the City: Space, Power, and Identity in China’s Floating Population. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
37. Zhang L, (2002) Spatiality and urban citizenship in late socialist China. Public Culture 14(2): 311–334.
38. Zhang M, Wu W, Zhong W. (2017) The reshaping of social relations: Resettled rural residents in Zhenjiang, China. Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning 60: 495–503.
39. Zhenjiang Municipal Government (2012) Zhenjiang Integrated Urban–Rural Plan. Available at: http://www.zjsghj.gov.cn/.