Wang, Ying;
Wu, Fulong;
Zhang, Fangzhu;
(2024)
Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing.
Urban Geography
pp. 1-22.
10.1080/02723638.2024.2349449.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article explores how far the Foucauldian concept of “governmentality” may offer valuable insights into new trends of participatory regeneration in urban China. Drawing on participatory micro-regeneration projects in Qinghe, Beijing, this research follows a governmentality approach. It explores how the Chinese state exercises new governmental technologies of community participation and self-governance to construct governable spaces and governable subjects. During the regeneration process, we identify multiple participatory practices where citizen power is exercised in decision-making and project implementation but guided by experts within the fields structured by the state. We argue that participation has been instrumentalized by the state to achieve extra-economic objectives of social governance and people-centred development. We also observe tensions and resistance during participatory micro-regeneration, leading to the failure to develop a self-governed community.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Participatory micro-regeneration: governing urban redevelopment in Qinghe, Beijing |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02723638.2024.2349449 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2349449 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2024. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Participation, regeneration, self-governance, governmentality, China |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10192243 |
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