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

• Main Author: ZHANG, Qian Forrest
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Rural restructuring; Productivism; Productivist agriculture; Residential resettlement; Agrarian transition; Asian Studies; Community-Based Research; Rural Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3489; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4747/viewcontent/Productivism_Chengdu_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...