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The Government Next Door : Neighborhood Politics in Urban China / Luigi Tomba.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) : 13 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801455209
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.760951 23
LOC classification:
  • HT147.C48 T66 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Neighborhood Consensus -- 1. Social Clustering -- 2. Micro-Governing the Urban Crisis -- 3. Housing and Social Engineering -- 4. Contained Contention: Interests, Places, Community, and the State -- 5. A Contagious Civilization: Community, Exemplarism, and Suzhi -- Conclusion: Arenas of Contention and Accommodation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is driven by the need to preserve social and political stability, but such priorities must adapt to the progressive privatization of urban residential space and an increasingly complex set of societal forces. Tomba's vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics in Beijing, Shenyang, and Chengdu depict how such local "translation" of government priorities takes place.Tomba reveals how different clusters of residential space are governed more or less intensely depending on the residents’ social status; how disgruntled communities with high unemployment are still managed with the pastoral strategies typical of the socialist tradition, while high-income neighbors are allowed greater autonomy in exchange for a greater concern for social order. Conflicts are contained by the gated structures of the neighborhoods to prevent systemic challenges to the government, and middle-class lifestyles have become exemplars of a new, responsible form of citizenship. At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Neighborhood Consensus -- 1. Social Clustering -- 2. Micro-Governing the Urban Crisis -- 3. Housing and Social Engineering -- 4. Contained Contention: Interests, Places, Community, and the State -- 5. A Contagious Civilization: Community, Exemplarism, and Suzhi -- Conclusion: Arenas of Contention and Accommodation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. Government action is driven by the need to preserve social and political stability, but such priorities must adapt to the progressive privatization of urban residential space and an increasingly complex set of societal forces. Tomba's vivid ethnographic accounts of neighborhood life and politics in Beijing, Shenyang, and Chengdu depict how such local "translation" of government priorities takes place.Tomba reveals how different clusters of residential space are governed more or less intensely depending on the residents’ social status; how disgruntled communities with high unemployment are still managed with the pastoral strategies typical of the socialist tradition, while high-income neighbors are allowed greater autonomy in exchange for a greater concern for social order. Conflicts are contained by the gated structures of the neighborhoods to prevent systemic challenges to the government, and middle-class lifestyles have become exemplars of a new, responsible form of citizenship. At times of conflict and in daily interactions, the penetration of the state discourse about social stability becomes clear.

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