China Constructing Capitalism

Keith, Michael; Lash, Scott; Arnoldi, Jakob; Rooker, Tyler

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“…Indeed, this approach to neoliberalism is consistent with a more general tendency in traditional Chinese thought (and contemporary post-structural theory) to understand present conditions not in terms of temporal calculation and consequence, or cause and effect, but of situational disposition or propensity (Easterling, 2013; Jullien, 1995; Keith et al, 2014: 92–94). Disposition is captured in Foucault’s notion of the dispositif , or apparatus, which locates a nascent positivity or potential in a configuration of diverse factors (Hillier and Cao, 2011; Ploger, 2008).…”

Section: Neoliberal Exceptions In Macausupporting

confidence: 68%

“…This mapping of the Macau present reveals how these three moments realized a latent potential or “generative capacity” (Farias, 2010: 7) of Macau’s spatial disposition, the “futures present” in the city (Keith et al, 2014: 74). This process in Macau relies on a complex “concrescence” (Amin and Thrift, 2002: 27) of a variety of (originally unrelated) trans-local enactments that together normalize Chinese consumption; these include informal planning, transnational financial flows, North American casino resort design, normative tourist mobilities, didactic post-socialist policies, the moral transfiguration of Chinese leisure, biological and sociological contagions, and Macau’s own peculiar juridical status.…”

Section: Three Governance Crises and The “Conditions Of Possibility” mentioning

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Neoliberal exception? The liberalization of Macau’s casino gaming monopoly and the genealogy of the post-socialist Chinese subject

Simpson

2016

Planning Theory

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Following Portugal’s return of Macau to the People’s Republic of China in 1999, the local government liberalized the city’s casino gaming monopoly and opened the industry to foreign investment. As a result, Macau has become the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming revenue, and a model for other regional states which are pursuing casino gaming-driven development. This article entails a post-structural analysis of neoliberal governance in Macau and a genealogy of the resulting post-socialist consumer subject. Framed by a critical engagement with Aihwa Ong’s theory of “neoliberalism as exception,” analysis reveals that Macau’s economic growth was enhanced, not by optimizing technocratic rationalities, but by reactive measures taken up by different actors, at several different scales, to address three governance crises of public order, public finance, and public health. What appear to be neoliberal interventions in the Macau economy are often exposed as contemporary iterations of latent governmental forms. These various factors form a dispositif, or apparatus, of subjectification.

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Neoliberal exception? The liberalization of Macau’s casino gaming monopoly and the genealogy of the post-socialist Chinese subject

Simpson

2016

Planning Theory

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“…Yet the subject of outer suburban decline and the potential scale and distinctive nature of a future suburban regeneration challenge have barely begun to be broached in many national contexts. Outer suburban decline may even become a topic of concern in urbanizing China sooner than imagined given demographic trends (Keith et al 2014). Our research has gone further to identify a number of distinctly different outer suburban trajectories around which similarly tailored policies may need to focus in metropolitan Tokyo (Ohashi 2018) and presumably other major urban agglomerations.…”

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Edge City Denied? The Rise and Fall of Tokyo’s Outer Suburban “Business Core Cities”

Phelps

Ohashi

2018

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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The tradition of planning for polycentricity in Tokyo saw outer suburbs designated as Business Core Cities (BCCs). However, as the national economy and population growth have stagnated and Tokyo’s needs as a world city have come to the fore, the outer suburbs have been left exposed. Despite attempts to reinforce outer suburban growth with the BCC policy, Tokyo’s is a story of edge city denied. At a time when attention has turned to planning for the increased urbanity of suburbs or arresting inner suburban decline, Tokyo speaks to a phenomenon of outer suburban decline barely conceivable in mature economies.

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“…Its collapse, however, epitomised the inherent tendency of capitalism towards destruction and started pushing growing sections of its middle class towards a precarious condition (Gottfried, 2014, 2018). Conversely, China has created its own “socialism with Chinese characteristics” by adopting a free market approach at the global level while supporting socialist practices at the local one (Keith et al, 2014; Lim, 2014). Since Deng Xiaoping’s inauguration of the open doors policy (Cai and Treisman, 2006; Li and Wei, 2010), market-like reforms have reinforced already existing spatial differentiation through the uneven connection to global flows of capital, which have favoured accumulation in the coastal areas while dragging population and economic resources from the inner regions (Lim, 2017; Lin et al, 2015).…”

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Broken Promises of Capitalism’s Wonderland: Representing Uneven Development in Contemporary China and Japan

Ortiz-Moya

Moreno

2019

Critical Sociology

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China and Japan are currently in opposing stages of the expansion process of capitalism. While China is at the centre of the global accumulation of surplus capital through urbanisation and industrial expansion—i.e. the creation stage—Japan has been stagnant in recent decades and its periphery is de-urbanising—i.e. the destruction stage. Consequences of the global spatialisation of capital, however, are similar in both cases, resulting in growing social inequalities. This article uses films to explore the influence of this process on popular culture, specifically focusing on a Chinese film—Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin (2013)—and a Japanese one—Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’s Sketches of Kaitan City (2010). The two films are composed of interconnected segments that portray the social by-products of the spatialisation of capitalism. We argue that, despite the apparent dissimilarities, this process creates parallel realities consequential to the broken promises of advancement made by the economic system. Ultimately, this generates a distorted social space that normalises the new, worsened living conditions resulting from capitalism’s continual expansion.

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China Constructing Capitalism

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Neoliberal exception? The liberalization of Macau’s casino gaming monopoly and the genealogy of the post-socialist Chinese subject

Neoliberal exception? The liberalization of Macau’s casino gaming monopoly and the genealogy of the post-socialist Chinese subject

Edge City Denied? The Rise and Fall of Tokyo’s Outer Suburban “Business Core Cities”

Broken Promises of Capitalism’s Wonderland: Representing Uneven Development in Contemporary China and Japan

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