Building productivism in rural China: The case of residential restructuring in Chengdu

This paper theorizes the rural restructuring in China today as a transition towards productivism – characterized by both a productivist agricultural regime and productivist rural spaces. The rise of the productivist agricultural regime has spearheaded this transition for two decades; now the residen...

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Main Author: ZHANG, Qian Forrest
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spelling sg-smu-ink.soss_research-47472022-02-23T08:34:47Z Building productivism in rural China: The case of residential restructuring in Chengdu ZHANG, Qian Forrest This paper theorizes the rural restructuring in China today as a transition towards productivism – characterized by both a productivist agricultural regime and productivist rural spaces. The rise of the productivist agricultural regime has spearheaded this transition for two decades; now the residential restructuring programs implemented under various policy schemes are also producing spaces of productivism in the new concentrated settlements. This paper, employing Halfacree’s three-fold conceptual model of rural space and using the empirical case of residential restructuring in Chengdu, offers the first full analysis of the rise of productivism in all three facets of rural space. It demonstrates both how formal representations and planning practices are building spaces of productivism in a multi-scalar process and how this new spatiality is contested and modified by residents in their everyday lives, creating tensions and contradictions in the emerging productivist rural spatial regime. A key insight from this study is that the productivist transformation of residential space is constitutive of the broader transition to productivism and crucial to the rise of productivist agriculture. 2022-02-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3489 info:doi/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.12.008 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4747/viewcontent/Productivism_Chengdu_av.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Rural restructuring Productivism Productivist agriculture Residential resettlement Agrarian transition Asian Studies Community-Based Research Rural Sociology
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topic Rural restructuring
Productivism
Productivist agriculture
Residential resettlement
Agrarian transition
Asian Studies
Community-Based Research
Rural Sociology
spellingShingle Rural restructuring
Productivism
Productivist agriculture
Residential resettlement
Agrarian transition
Asian Studies
Community-Based Research
Rural Sociology
ZHANG, Qian Forrest
Building productivism in rural China: The case of residential restructuring in Chengdu
description This paper theorizes the rural restructuring in China today as a transition towards productivism – characterized by both a productivist agricultural regime and productivist rural spaces. The rise of the productivist agricultural regime has spearheaded this transition for two decades; now the residential restructuring programs implemented under various policy schemes are also producing spaces of productivism in the new concentrated settlements. This paper, employing Halfacree’s three-fold conceptual model of rural space and using the empirical case of residential restructuring in Chengdu, offers the first full analysis of the rise of productivism in all three facets of rural space. It demonstrates both how formal representations and planning practices are building spaces of productivism in a multi-scalar process and how this new spatiality is contested and modified by residents in their everyday lives, creating tensions and contradictions in the emerging productivist rural spatial regime. A key insight from this study is that the productivist transformation of residential space is constitutive of the broader transition to productivism and crucial to the rise of productivist agriculture.
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author ZHANG, Qian Forrest
author_facet ZHANG, Qian Forrest
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title Building productivism in rural China: The case of residential restructuring in Chengdu
title_short Building productivism in rural China: The case of residential restructuring in Chengdu
title_full Building productivism in rural China: The case of residential restructuring in Chengdu
title_fullStr Building productivism in rural China: The case of residential restructuring in Chengdu
title_full_unstemmed Building productivism in rural China: The case of residential restructuring in Chengdu
title_sort building productivism in rural china: the case of residential restructuring in chengdu
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2022
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3489
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