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GEOFORUM
Volume 128, Issue -, Pages 103-114Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.12.008
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Rural restructuring; Productivism; Productivist agriculture; Residential resettlement; Agrarian transition
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This paper offers the first comprehensive analysis of the rise of productivism in all three facets of rural space, using the empirical case of residential restructuring in Chengdu. It demonstrates that productivist spaces are built through a multi-scalar process, but are also contested and modified by residents, leading to tensions and contradictions in the emerging productivist rural spatial regime. The study highlights the constitutive role of residential space transformation in the broader transition to productivism and its importance to the rise of productivist agriculture.
This paper theorizes the rural restructuring in China today as a transition towards productivism - characterized by both a productivist agricultural regime and productivist rural spaces. The rise of the productivist agricultural regime has spearheaded this transition for two decades; now the residential restructuring programs implemented under various policy schemes are also producing spaces of productivism in the new concentrated settlements. This paper, employing Halfacree's three-fold conceptual model of rural space and using the empirical case of residential restructuring in Chengdu, offers the first full analysis of the rise of productivism in all three facets of rural space. It demonstrates both how formal representations and planning practices are building spaces of productivism in a multi-scalar process and how this new spatiality is contested and modified by residents in their everyday lives, creating tensions and contradictions in the emerging productivist rural spatial regime. A key insight from this study is that the productivist transformation of residential space is constitutive of the broader transition to productivism and crucial to the rise of productivist agriculture.
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