Boating on the Sea of Grass: Western Development Ecotourism, and Elite Capture in Guizhou, China

Herrold-Menzies, Melinda

doi:10.1080/10225706.2006.9684135

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“…This is in line with what Friedmann (2000) argues, namely that resistance to attempts to shape or reshape people's lives is inevitable, and there is a social responsibility to do less harm to society. Our work also potentially contributes to preventing the clash between parties about the vision of the development (Herrold-Menzies 2006). It also provides a practical approach for post-political governance (Allmendinger and Haughton 2012), which replaces conflicts with consensus and negotiation.…”

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Bridging the perception gap? When top-down built megaprojects meet bottom-up perceptions: a case study of Suramadu bridge, Indonesia

2020

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For the last few decades, the development of mega-infrastructure projects has been high on the agendas of policymakers in Southeast Asia. Despite the potential benefits of such projects, there are also inevitable societal impacts that often lead to protests by local people. In general, most literature on megaprojects focuses solely on managing projects, with limited coverage of local people's perceptions. This article, however, offers an analytical approach to perception making, adopted from psychology theories, which is then elaborated upon in a quantitative and qualitative empirical setting using the Suramadu cable-stayed bridge in Indonesia as a case study. Our main argument is that perceptions about megaprojects can change as a result of long-term, high-level exposure to such projects. The results imply the need for megaproject development to take people's perceptions into account to bridge the gap between topdown expected benefits and bottom-up acceptance or rejection by those outside the central power.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Bridging the perception gap? When top-down built megaprojects meet bottom-up perceptions: a case study of Suramadu bridge, Indonesia

2020

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“…Several studies (Caldas & Gupta, 2017; Delphine & Spit, 2019; Fox, 2020; Herrold-Menzies, 2006; Mišić & Radujković, 2015) have explored the determinants of megaprojects. However, the literature on such projects focuses either on their management or on the perception of local communities among various stakeholders, with limited scope or coverage of ZoI.…”

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“…Furthermore, megaprojects particularly those undertaken in the developing countries, have numerous social, economic, technological, organizational, environmental, and geopolitical challenges (Mackhaphonh & Jia, 2017). Some of the challenges are countervailing; some are institutional power struggles among antagonistic and incendiary social segments in their attempt to increase their sphere of influence both politically and geographically (Fox, 2020) through elite capture; and some expected gains from an initiative or project are lost to influential and resourceful principals characterized by higher-education and higher-income levels (Herrold-Menzies, 2006).…”

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Exploring the Determinants of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Its Impact on Local Communities

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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a major development project in China’s fast-evolving Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is arguably the most comprehensive of the six BRI economic and infrastructure corridors on land. For Pakistan, it is perceived “as the harbinger of a new era of connectivity and integration” that will not only transform the region’s economic development but also the well-being of Pakistanis. It investigates the impact of CPEC as perceived by the local communities in its ZoI. It also evaluates CPEC’s potential challenges: public support and local communities’ concerns such as their awareness, acceptance, and ownership of CPEC. To accomplish our research objectives, we analyze original microdata from 1,585 respondents living proximate to propose CPEC route(s) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, in Pakistan. After aggregating the data on the basis of age, education, income, and social status, we conduct descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate analyses in an attempt to answer three research questions. We find significantly high level of awareness of CPEC across the board in the older age group of respondents (i.e., 40 years or older), hereinafter referred to as mature, highly educated, that is, respondents with university education. Older respondents expect more environmental and economic benefits than younger respondents, even as the latter expect lower social change and effect on migration than do the former. However, those in the upper social class expect higher economic and political benefits from CPEC, compared with those in the lower social class—an early indication of possible elite capture.

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“…Recognizing that traditional rural communities have a fragile cultural and social ecology, the impact of tourism development on rural residents has been fully discussed in previous studies (Ryu et al, 2020). In the process of rural tourism development, rural areas with more complex social hierarchies and social relationship networks are influenced by elite capture (Herrold-Menzies, 2006), power imbalance of space production (Xue & Kerstetter, 2018), and postcolonial gaze via host-guest interaction (Sun & Xie, 2020). All of this leads to the weak participation of residents, host-guest conflict based on perceived threats, and the weakening of place identity (Ryu et al, 2020).…”

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“…On the one hand, through social media, traditional rural elites use a time difference to obtain advantages of temporary information imbalance and strengthen elite capture (Herrold-Menzies, 2006). On the other hand, social media provides a social space for 'exclusive' private interaction, and the social interaction based on social media is considered to be more secretive and temporality-spatiality of interaction than the offline social space.…”

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How social media influences resident participation in rural tourism development: a case study of Tunda in Tibet

Sang

2020

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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Previous studies have explored the impact of social media as a marketing tool on tourists' decision-making and experience, but few studies have explored the impact of social media on rural residents' tourism participation. Taking Tunda in Tibet as an example, this study qualitatively explores how social media embedding affects rural residents' tourism participation. Results show that social media reshapes villagers' social identity, social structure, and social relationship of the tourism community. Specifically, (1) the virtual space constructed by social media is connected with the lived space of villagers, additionally, the social and power relations in lived space are reshaped by the embedding of virtual space. (2) The production of virtual space with social media as the medium expands the resistance channels of representations of space in the process of space production in reality for villagers. Internal place branding can play a greater role in the place branding due to the embedding of social media. (3) When social media influences villagers' participation in tourism development, it influences changes in the community, including changing the villagers' lifestyle, strengthening informal power, and reshaping the social relationship of residents. The findings can help rural tourism destination managers adapt to changes in rural society brought about by social media.

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Boating on the Sea of Grass: Western Development Ecotourism, and Elite Capture in Guizhou, China

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Bridging the perception gap? When top-down built megaprojects meet bottom-up perceptions: a case study of Suramadu bridge, Indonesia

Bridging the perception gap? When top-down built megaprojects meet bottom-up perceptions: a case study of Suramadu bridge, Indonesia

Exploring the Determinants of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Its Impact on Local Communities

How social media influences resident participation in rural tourism development: a case study of Tunda in Tibet

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