<i>Jiehebu</i>or suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies

Zhao, Yimin

doi:10.1093/cjres/rsaa032

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“…(Yugoslavia had the same linguistic confusions.) This recalls what Yimin Zhao (2020) argued regarding the role of translation, which exposes us to strangeness and alterity. Liu (1995: 26, cited in Zhao 2020) warns that translation is “the very site of [political and ideological] struggles where a guest language is forced to encounter the host language.” Thus, the essence of land ownership requires deeper analysis.…”

Section: Institutional Transformations Village Corporatism and Shareholding Companies In Chinasupporting

confidence: 70%

Urban Village Shareholding: Cooperative Economic Organization in Northeast China

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2021

American J Econ Sociol

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Since the economic reforms of the 1970s, local Chinese urban authorities have requisitioned rural land near cities. To protect their land from these practices, many urban village collectives have established a cooperative shareholding system, but their motives remain unclear. Neoclassical economics suggests that such enterprises seek to maximize profits. Guided by the original institutionaleconomics approach, I investigate this question empirically by interviewing residents of Mengke village in Chaoyang city, Liaoning Province, northeast China. These data reveal four startling findings about the motives behind the shareholding system. First, collective economic organizations do not simply seek the maximization of profit. Second, the shareholding cooperative system adopted by village collectives helps villagers resist external threats such as land loss. Third, the collective economic organization is not merely a firm or a single market; it may work as a firm and a market simultaneously. Finally, managing of common property contributes to maintaining the identity of the collective. These findings suggest that the theories of neoclassical urban economics and new institutional economics fundamentally mischaracterize urban cooperatives.

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Section: Institutional Transformations Village Corporatism and Shareholding Companies In Chinasupporting

confidence: 70%

Urban Village Shareholding: Cooperative Economic Organization in Northeast China

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2021

American J Econ Sociol

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“…Although this term is used widely across mainland China and applied to areas of land which are perceived to be underdeveloped or awaiting substantial development, the use and function of the kongdi in urban systems has not been subject to prior study from an urban studies perspective 2 . In contrast to other non‐English terminology which has been proposed in anglophone urban studies—most notably desakota (McGee, 1991) and jiehebu (Zhao, 2020)—I suggest that kongdi indicates not a geographic location between urban and rural but a temporal (and temporary) position awaiting an imagined future of urban development.…”

Section: Delineating Kongdimentioning

confidence: 64%

THEORY FROM EMPTY LAND: Informal Commoning Outside/Within Economies and Ecologies of the Urban

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2022

Int J Urban Regional Res

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I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to Carlo Antonicelli and Rosco Xun for the days spent on the kongdi during fieldwork. The research that constituted this article was only possible with the support of Zong Huiming at Southwest University, Chongqing, and other interlocutors and friends in Chongqing. I would furthermore like to thank the IJURR editor and anonymous referees for their valuable comments. All errors and omissions remain the responsibility of the author alone. Research for the article was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (grant ES/J500215/1).

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“…The 'cookie-cutter' image of the suburb as white and middle-class no longer holds; in the 2000s, poverty, and with it racialized poverty, has accelerated in U.S. suburbs over and above the urban core (Kneebone & Berube, 2013;Pooley, 2015). Similarly, while suburban studies have historically focused on North America, a growing literature analyses the rapid expansion of suburban settlements in the global south, while also questioning whether and how the concept of 'suburb' translates (De Vidovich, 2019;Herzog, 2015;Ren, 2021;Zhao, 2020). Acknowledging that the issues explored here do not directly translate, it remains productive to interrogate how local climate governance can effectively address the dominant sources of emissions and vulnerability in varied urban peripheries.…”

Section: Targeting Mitigation To Suburban Emissionsmentioning

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Climate solutions to meet the suburban surge: leveraging COVID-19 recovery to enhance suburban climate governance

2021

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Cities dominate the local climate governance arena, yet both the U.S. and Canada are suburban nations. The vast reaches of suburbia, which far exceed urban cores in land area, population, and emissions impacts, lag on climate action. At the same time, they are comparatively underserved by, and underrepresented within, the policy community. COVID-19 pandemic driven flight from cities to pastoral safety was hyped in the media, but the reality is a more mundane suburban acceleration. As always, suburbs provide more space, 2020s top commodity, at a lower cost. This stands at odds with the prescriptions of urban climate experts, where mixed-use, walkable density is the path to meeting Paris Agreement targets. Without a more expansive approach to subnational action, the popular movement around cities for climate will fail to deliver on its potential. We suggest going beyond narratives that position suburbs as helpful accessories, arguing instead that suburbs themselves can be a locus of climate action. In the context of a green recovery, additional steps include expanding suburban capacity through existing or new networks and supporting organizations engaged in suburban planning to adopt promising practices for equitable, integrated adaptation and mitigation. This approach could be an ideal use of recovery funds, with the potential to parlay immediate action into long-term gains. Governments have always subsidized the suburbs. COVID-19 recovery offers a narrow window to redirect and enhance those subsidies to bring the management of climate impacts within reach. Key policy insights:. Suburbs, due to their share of population, land area and emissions, must become centres of climate action, not accessories to urban plans. . Climate action should be designed to meet the specific circumstances of suburban communities. Examples include focusing on retrofitting existing buildings, integrating mixed-use zoning, and prioritizing demand-side management. . Suburban communities can immediately begin adopting the most promising practices for equitable, integrated adaptation and mitigation.

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Jiehebuor suburb? Towards a translational turn in urban studies

Cited by 28 publications

References 61 publications

Urban Village Shareholding: Cooperative Economic Organization in Northeast China

Urban Village Shareholding: Cooperative Economic Organization in Northeast China

THEORY FROM EMPTY LAND: Informal Commoning Outside/Within Economies and Ecologies of the Urban

Climate solutions to meet the suburban surge: leveraging COVID-19 recovery to enhance suburban climate governance

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