Uneven housing development and the spatial negotiation of class in Nanjing,China

详细信息   

• 作者：Tynen ; Sarah Elizabeth
• 学历：Master
• 年：2014
• 关键词：Social sciences ; Class ; Culture ; Development ; Inequali
• 导师：O'Loughlin,John
• 毕业院校：University of Colorado
• Department：Geography
• 专业：Asian Studies;Geography;Urban planning
• ISBN：9781321198607
• CBH：1565333
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：107663879
• Pages：233

文摘

I examine urban citizenship,modernity,and private homeownership through participant observation and interviews examining how various social groups in urban China (i.e. rural migrants,urban poor,urban middle-class) negotiate the construction of new and transforming class boundaries. Through an ethnographic study in five field sites--two gated communities,two public housing compounds,and one old city neighborhood--I explore the everyday experience of residents in the midst of urban housing redevelopment. I link the economic and cultural domains of class construction to further understand the dynamic interplay between broader political-economic context and individual lived experience. I illustrate that uneven housing development constitutes changing spatial dimensions of class in Nanjing,China. This study illuminates the theoretical and practical implications of uneven development.