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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wu, Fulong
• Zhang, Fangzhu
• Liu, Yuqi

Titel

Beyond Growth Machine Politics: Understanding State Politics and National Political Mandates in China’s Urban Redevelopment

Ist Teil von

• Antipode, 2022-03, Vol.54 (2), p.608-628

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

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Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Large‐scale demolition has been ubiquitous in fast urbanising China. The politics of redevelopment is often seen as secondary, derived from and defined by local entrepreneurial governance. However, changing state politics, in particular national political mandates, has not been adequately addressed. Through examining variegated practices, this paper understands how the changing national political context affects or redefines local redevelopment projects. These cases reflect local responses to the national campaigns for rural vitalisation and “Beautiful China”, heritage preservation and “incremental regeneration” (weigaizao), and community participation in dilapidated neighbourhoods for a “harmonious society”. We find that these redevelopment projects are inherited from and associated with, but at the same time go beyond, growth machine politics. We argue that their motivations reflect a governance mode of “state entrepreneurialism” to achieve extra‐economic objectives through market instruments, and that this illustrates geopolitics, especially the role of the national state in development politics. 本文通过分析不同类型城市更新项目, 探讨了国家政治环境的变化如何影响或重塑当前中国的城市更新。这些案例反映了地方如何回应全国性治理运动, 包括乡村振兴和“美丽中国”、遗迹保护和“微改造”、老旧小区改造和“构建和谐社会”。我们发现这些项目虽然沿袭但是超越了增长机器政治。我们认为这些项目背后的动机体现了国家通过市场工具实现经济以外的发展目标的“国家企业家主义”。