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PEASANT MOBILIZATION, THE ‘LAND QUESTION’ AND SPATIAL EGALITARIANISM IN AN URBANIZING CHINA: A Genealogical Assessment and a New Research Agenda
Urbanization has become a core strategy for the Communist Party of China (CPC) to reinforce its authoritarian rule over China. Its roll-out is replete with tensions, however, because the extent to which urbanization can replicate spatial egalitarianism, the foundation of CPC sovereign rule following its victory in the...
ALGORITHMIC SUTURING: Platforms, Motorcycles and the ‘Last Mile’ in Urban Africa
The ‘last mile' is not only a powerful metaphor of contemporary life, but also the tangible site of a challenge, whether for governments wanting to reach their citizens or companies wanting to reach their customers. In urban Africa this challenge is compounded by the fragmented material condition of cities. As a...
RE-SCALING TERRITORIAL STIGMATIZATION: The Construction and Negotiation of ‘Declining Medium-Sized Cities’ as a Stigmatizing Imaginary in France
Loïc Wacquant's work on the production and reproduction of socio-spatial inequalities in Chicago and La Courneuve has inspired a literature on how imaginaries of low-income, often racialized neighborhoods are spread through discourse and policy, and how residents respond to the stigmatization of their neighborhoods...
NOVEMBER ISSUE
Revolutionary legacy: typical rural arable and residential land in southwestern China, allocated to peasants by the Communist Party in the late 1940s in support of spatial egalitarianism, who are now being driven towards large-scale urbanization (detail from a photo © Kean Fan Lim, March 2012)
Boda boda (motorcycle taxi) riders waiting in Kahawa West, Nairobi, for the ‘last mile’ of a despatch (detail from a photo © Andrea Pollio, April 2022)
In-between the dashed lines, the empty diagonal of ‘declining medium-sized cities’ affected by stigmatizing imaginaries (detail from a map of France by Benjamin Smith, Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA-3.0)
