Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
5-2022
Abstract
This commentary welcomes Gillen et al.'s geographies of ruralization as an alternative to the urban-centered analysis of socio-spatial transformation in post-reform China. We offer three perspectives to further develop such alternative articulation by drawing on China's most recent geographical experiences of rural revitalization. The first is the ‘top-down’ process of rural revitalization launched by different levels of Chinese state agents and how this is divergent from local needs or embedded in bottom-up engagement. The second is the temporal dimension of ruralization highlighting how uses of the past are implicated in and legitimize the state agenda of rural revitalization. The third directs attention to the entanglement of nature and culture – that is, how a harmonious human–nature approach to rural revitalization is produced in discourse and practice. We argue that these alternative insights offer possibilities of developing more inclusive geographies of ruralization in the Global South and beyond.
Keywords
China, nature–culture, past, ruralization, rural revitalization, state
Discipline
Asian Studies | Rural Sociology
Research Areas
Sociology
Publication
Dialogues in Human Geography
Volume
12
Issue
12
First Page
213
Last Page
217
ISSN
2043-8206
Identifier
10.1177/20438206221102933
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Citation
CHEN, Ningning, & KONG, Lily.(2022). Rural revitalization in China: Towards inclusive geographies of ruralization. Dialogues in Human Geography, 12(12), 213-217.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3676
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206221102933