Search Results for global rural

... reconceptualization and demonstrates that, similar to the urban, the rural too can be global, heterogeneous, and transformative. [email protected] Although the rural is being transformed under the contours of globalization, this transformation is far from homogenous. Here, Massey's concept of power...

...Yang Zhan Abstract For decades, Chinese rural migrants have been understood as engaging in dagong 打工 (working for a boss), or the selling of their waged labor, conditioned by the global production chain, dormitory regimes, and exploitive labor relations within and beyond factories. Meanwhile...

... with a broader national development strategy that seeks to transform certain major cities in China into “world cities” (or “global cities”) (e.g., Timberlake et al. 2014 ; Gu, Wei, and Cook 2015 ). A municipal planning blueprint from 2008, for example, explicitly premised Beijing's urban-rural restructuring...

... publication. Linh Khanh Nguyen's “Geometries of Fractals and Power: Transnational Marriages, Translocal Marriages, and Asia's Global Ruralities” kicks off a set of studies all focused on global labor migration. In the article, Nguyen lays out a relatively familiar spatial configuration—the urban and the rural...

... In what follows, I examine the proletariat of China’s beauty economy through a case study of rural migrant women who have become cosmetics sales representatives (or “reps”) in an outlet of a major global retailer in Kun- ming, Yunnan. I ask, how...

..., or emotional inadequacies of poor, rural single mothers who abandon their children. Such claims about maternal unfitness are part of a growing neoliberal tendency in Vietnam to render the family and reproduction technical problems to be solved through the application of scientific expertise. Although rendering...

... (Everuss 2020 ; Sheller and Urry 2006 ). Keeping this in mind and drawing on the theory of idealization of motherhood and literature on migrant motherhood, this article investigates how the Euro-American ideology of intensive mothering has been preached among rural migrant mothers in China's globalizing...

... project insofar as Shenzhen, and by extension Shenzheners, geo- graphically mediated the contradictions between global capitalism and the still backward, rural parts of China. Pioneering New Subject Positions My title is adapted...

... global channels of accumulation. Second, the functional divi- sion of labor inherent in Guizhou’s commercial rural crafts production is marked by gender and ethnicity. The Guizhou crafts industry is segmented into Han versus non-Han...

... in the urban villages. China's urban villages are thus contested spaces situated in the interstices between the rural and the urban, between histories of socialism and its afterlives in a globalizing present (Franceschini, Loubere, and Sorace 2019 ). Competing claims to wealth, as well as opposing visions...

... and welfare benefits, urban residents enjoy.37 To attract global capital, the Chinese state offers cheap labor that it maintains through the hukou system.38 The postsocialist Chinese state has allowed rural youth positions 23:3  August 2015...

... as history since then has proceeded apace. In that year the events in Beijing became a spark for the breakup of the Soviet Union and of Eastern Europe, which in turn marked the beginning of the global domination of neoliberalism in economic...

... income and resolve China’s Three Rurals,6 one should look globally and see that Mexico is about 70 percent urbanized, whereas China is only about 40 percent urbanized; Mexico’s per capita income once reached US$4,000, whereas that is a target...

... industry. Not to be dismissed as simple promotional lures to capture viewer's attention and simultaneously evade state censorship, this trend is read against the backdrop of the nation's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995. These films share the same response to trade globalization...

... economy of Chinese peasant migra- tion under reform and globalization. Iwill then explore the interconnected nature of various state policies/practices and popular urban constructions of peasant migrants, their rural origins, and their urban...

... levels. The promotion of Nanhai from rural county to urban city was, therefore, only one catalyst in the multifaceted transformation of scale relationships in the city. In terms of the underlying structures, economic globalization...

... unmaking of the Maoist peasant classes entails the emaciation of rural populations, as Yan Hairong has described, through the intensified extraction and exploitation of the migrant classes. The tu er dai is a place-based group of former peasants who have quickly elevated to the rentier class thanks...

... . Appadurai Arun . 2013 . The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition . New York : Verso . Arendt Hannah . 1998 . The Human Condition . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Beckert Jens . 2016 . Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics...

... is no doubt also connected to gender’s ability to make visible the new social exigencies that marketization imposes. These include massive female unemployment, the exploitation of rural female factory laborers in highly globalized regions...

... several years of ethnographic fieldwork across China, including among families in a decarbonizing coal region, emissions experts and carbon footprint app developers in urban centers, and afforestation workers in various rural carbon offset sites. She is a lecturer and researcher at the Department...