04458oam 2200709I 450 991046130530332120200520144314.01-283-10377-X97866131037721-136-80844-20-203-82845-310.4324/9780203828458 (CKB)2670000000088399(EBL)683932(OCoLC)721900553(SSID)ssj0000517037(PQKBManifestationID)12180671(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000517037(PQKBWorkID)10478082(PQKB)11373763(MiAaPQ)EBC683932(Au-PeEL)EBL683932(CaPaEBR)ebr10514309(CaONFJC)MIL310377(EXLCZ)99267000000008839920180706d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe politics of community building in urban China /Thomas Heberer and Christian GobelAbingdon, Oxon ;New York :Routledge,2011.1 online resource (209 p.)Chinese worldsDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-85554-3 0-415-59702-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; The Politics of CommunityBuilding in Urban China; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction: political innovation without democratization; The reorganization of China's urban neighbourhoods; Infrastructural power; Governance and community; Imposed communities: the shequ; Governmentality and regime stability; The argument; Data; 2. Social control, social fragmentation, and the reimposition of state power; Urban institutions of social control; The withdrawal of the state and growing social instabilitySocial fragmentation and disintegrationReacting to new demands on the state; Conclusion; 3. Enhancing infrastructural power: shequ organization; The organization of urban neighbourhoods; Tasks; Financial resources; Salaries; Associations; Homeowners' committees: semi-autonomous bodies challenging formal structures; Conclusion; 4. Legitimating narratives; The telos of a harmonious shequ; Turning subjects into citizens; Delineating autonomy: the moral state; Self-administration; Conclusion; 5. Shequ governance; Electoral processes in the shequA reservoir of 'volunteers': local party organizationsInformal participation; Case studies; Conclusion; 6. New schemes of social security: urban neighbourhood communities as institutions of output legitimacy; Shequ: new social welfare providers; The unemployed and their perspectives; The politics of urban income support; Income support funding; The Residents' Committee: social security agency; Conclusion; 7. Attitudes; Participation; Attitude towards elections; Preference towards certain types of election; Attitudes towards Residents' Committees; Attitudes towards homeowners' committeesConclusion8. Conclusion; One step back, two steps forward?; Why is China so stable?; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis book aims to make sense of the recent reform of neighbourhood institutions in urban China. It builds on the observation that the late 1990s saw a comeback of the state in urban China after the increased economization of life in the 1980s had initially forced it to withdraw. Based on several months of fieldwork in locations ranging from poor and dilapidated neighbourhoods in Shenyang City to middle class gated communities in Shenzhen, the authors analyze recent attempts by the central government to enhance stability in China's increasingly volatile cities. In particular, tChinese worlds.Community developmentChinaNeighborhood governmentChinaUrban policyChinaElectronic books.Community developmentNeighborhood governmentUrban policy307.1/4160951Heberer Thomas.637559Gobel Christian1973 June 25-995027MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461305303321The politics of community building in urban China2279206UNINA01116nam0 22003133i 450 VAN0029898620250930023907.73288-7813-984-X20250930d1998 |0itac50 baitaITAIT|||| |||||i e nncGauguinil quadro è una superficie coperta di coloretesto di Gabriele CrepaldiMilanoLeonardo arte/1998143 p.ill.21 cm001VAN002985752001 Art book9MilanoVANL000284CrepaldiGabrieleVANV023015472909LeonardoeditoreVANV108447Leonardo ArteLeonardo <editore>VANV108448ITSOL20251003RICABIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI LETTERE E BENI CULTURALIIT-CE0103VAN07VAN00298986BIBLIOTECA DEL DIPARTIMENTO DI LETTERE E BENI CULTURALI07CONS Pc 1640 IX 07 798445560 20250930 Gauguin4442318UNICAMPANIA