This 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, they argue that the central government has begun to restructure urban neighbourhoods, and has encouraged residents to govern themselves by means of democratic procedures. Heberer and Göbel also contend that whilst on the one hand, the central government has managed to bring the Party-state back into urban society, especially by tapping into a range of social groups that depend on it, it has not, however, managed to establish a broad base for participation. In testing this hypothesis, the book examines the rationales, strategies and impacts of this comeback by systematically analyzing how the reorganization of neighbourhood committees was actually conducted and find that opportunities for participation were far more limited than initially promised.
The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese Studies, Development Studies, Urban Studies and Asian Studies in general.
University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany Lund University
To deal with the social unrest resulting from the retreat of state and marketization reform, the party-state intends to enhance its infrastructural power through reconstruction of urban communities. The strengthened infrastructural power can be directed...
评分To deal with the social unrest resulting from the retreat of state and marketization reform, the party-state intends to enhance its infrastructural power through reconstruction of urban communities. The strengthened infrastructural power can be directed...
评分To deal with the social unrest resulting from the retreat of state and marketization reform, the party-state intends to enhance its infrastructural power through reconstruction of urban communities. The strengthened infrastructural power can be directed...
评分To deal with the social unrest resulting from the retreat of state and marketization reform, the party-state intends to enhance its infrastructural power through reconstruction of urban communities. The strengthened infrastructural power can be directed...
评分To deal with the social unrest resulting from the retreat of state and marketization reform, the party-state intends to enhance its infrastructural power through reconstruction of urban communities. The strengthened infrastructural power can be directed...
整体而言,这本书的学术价值与现实关怀达到了一个极佳的平衡点。它不是一本读来让人感到轻松愉快的读物,因为它揭示了太多关于社会结构性矛盾的真相,但它绝对是一本让人无法放下的作品。作者的写作充满了对所研究群体的深切同情,但这种同情并未演变为廉价的道德说教,而是转化为了严密的分析工具。它成功地将一个看似微观的“社区建设”议题,升华为对当代中国政治生态、社会资本演变以及城市生活意义的哲学式追问。这本书为未来关于城市社会学、政治人类学乃至城市规划的研究,设定了一个极高的标杆。它无疑是过去十年间,关于中国城市转型研究中,最具启发性和思想深度的作品之一,其洞察力将持续影响学界对城市治理复杂性的理解。
评分从理论贡献的角度来看,本书成功地跨越了将中国城市研究简单地等同于“威权治理下的特殊案例”这一窠臼。它敏锐地捕捉到了全球城市化浪潮中,中国所展现出的独有特征,但又不失其普适性的讨论价值。作者巧妙地将社区构建置于全球资本流动与国家现代化战略的交汇点上,使得原本局限在地方层面的讨论,一下子提升到了全球视野的高度。我尤其赞赏作者在方法论上的谨慎与创新,它似乎在不断地提醒我们,在研究一个快速变动的体系时,静态的分析框架注定是无力的。这种动态的、过程导向的分析方法,使得书中对未来趋势的推断也显得更加审慎和可信。读完之后,我对“治理能力现代化”这个宏大叙事产生了更深层次的怀疑,因为真正的“治理”恰恰发生在那些不被明确写入官方文件的、模糊不清的日常互动之中。
评分这本书带给我的最大震撼,在于其对“非正式性”和“边缘空间”的关注。在主流的城市规划和政治话语中,这些领域往往被视为需要被清除或规范的对象。然而,作者却将这些“灰色地带”视为理解社会能量释放的关键场域。这些非正式的社区实践,无论是基于血缘、地缘还是利益的临时结盟,都构成了对官方权力的一种持续的、但往往是隐性的抵抗或补充。这种对“次生秩序”的深入挖掘,让我对中国城市治理的韧性与脆弱性有了全新的认识。它证明了,单纯依靠自上而下的命令,并不能完全塑造社会现实;相反,那些被边缘化的主体,通过其“非规范”的行动,反而塑造了城市本身的底色和走向。这种视角,极大地丰富了我们对社会变迁中权力分散形态的理解,令人耳目一新。
评分这本书的叙事笔触细腻而富有张力,仿佛带领读者亲身走进了中国城市化进程中那些被精心构建又暗流涌动的社区图景。作者对于“社区营造”这一核心议题的探讨,并非停留在理想化的蓝图描绘,而是扎根于中国特有的社会、政治和经济土壤之中。我尤其欣赏其对权力结构与基层实践之间复杂互动的剖析。书中对于不同利益相关方——从地方政府到开发商,再到社区居民和所谓的“社区工作者”——他们之间微妙的博弈和联盟关系的描绘,让人清晰地看到,所谓的“社区构建”往往是一场多方角力的结果,充满了妥协与冲突。它揭示了在自上而下的政策驱动下,基层是如何巧妙地利用或规避既有框架,以实现自身有限的集体目标。这种对现实主义政治的深刻洞察,使得整部著作的论述基石异常坚实,绝非空泛的理论说教。它强迫我们重新审视,在快速城市转型期,何为“公共空间”的真正意义,以及个体能动性在宏大叙事面前究竟能发挥多大的作用。
评分阅读体验上,这本书的学术严谨性令人印象深刻,但其行文流畅度远超一般晦涩的社科著作。作者似乎拥有一种罕见的能力,能将复杂的社会学理论和扎实的田野调查数据编织成引人入胜的故事线。我发现自己常常在思考,那些被量化为统计数字的现象背后,究竟隐藏着多少日常生活的艰辛与智慧。它不仅仅是在讨论“政策如何落地”,更是在探究“人如何在这种落地中生存和适应”。比如,书中对某一特定城市区域内,新旧邻里关系重塑过程的微观观察,简直是教科书级别的案例分析。它展示了物质环境的变迁如何不可避免地重塑了社会情感的联结,以及在身份认同面临挑战时,地方感(sense of place)是如何被建构、被捍卫,甚至是被操纵的。对于任何一个试图理解当代中国社会脉动的人来说,这本书提供的洞察力是无可替代的,它提供了一面透镜,让我们得以窥见快速发展背后的社会肌理。
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