CITY IN A BOX? RETHINKING THE SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE AS THE ‘CHINA MODEL’ OF DEVELOPMENT

Starting Time 活動開始時間

October 24, 2020 at 2:00 AM UTC

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Participants 嘉賓

Tim Oakes

Organizers 主協辦機構

Global China Center, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Mode 活動形式
Online
Languages 語言
English
Description 詳情

Abstract:
The concept of ‘infrastructure space’ was proposed by Keller Easterling in her 2014 book Extrastatecraft to identify the spaces where de facto forms of infrastructural governance form before they can be officially legislated by the states that house them. While China seemingly offers a large array of such spaces in the ‘Special Economic Zone’ format, such spaces tend to say less about the logics of global capitalism than they do about the legacies of the socialist city, and of the administrative state’s territorializing power.......(Please go to the event webpage for full abstract)

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