Housing practices and narrative of ecological civilisation: political and economic entanglements within the knowledge space of Chongqing University City. Contemporary Chinese narrative of ecological civilisation is based on the material and spiritual upgrading of social and individual life conditions in relation to the environment. At the local level, it mobilises new forms of urban planning which may be linked to certain aspects of sustainability and environmental protection. The case of Chongqing University City analysed in this paper represents an interesting case of territoriality that following the expansion of the urban fringes, brings upon the planning of a liminal space characterised by infrastructural and economic restrictions. Loss of rural landscape dynamically turns into a narrative of environmental protection that incentivises gentrification as a reasonable assemblage diachronically legitimised to strengthen the governmentality of governance. The analysis sheds light on assemblage discourses in Chinese peripheral megacity. Reflecting on the absence of differentiated sovereignty despite the formation of elitist enclaves, it recognises similarities with green gentrification patterns applied in Chinese coastal megacities and global cities worldwide. It also calls for critical epistemological focus on the interweaving of institutional recognition, landscaping, and the power of aesthetic symbolism for successful competition in polycentric urban and regional schemes.
La narrazione cinese contemporanea basata sull’affermazione materiale e spirituale di un processo di civilizzazione ecologica, mobilita a livello locale nuove forme di pianificazione urbana associabili a sostenibilità e pro- tezione dell’ambiente. In questo contesto, la città universitaria di Chongqing costituisce un interessante caso di territo- rialità dove l’espansione dell’urbano, la perdita di paesaggio rurale e la necessità di riarticolare gli spazi della produzione istituzionale del sapere, hanno portato all’insorgere di uno spazio liminale pianificato, una zona cuscinetto tra urbano e rurale delimitata da confini fisici-infrastrutturali e confini speculativi dei flussi di capitale. Il peculiare fenomeno di gen- trificazione che ne emerge è indagato nella forma dell’assemblaggio ragionato di interventi e discorsi che dispiegandosi nel tempo, ne hanno facilitato la legittimazione e la pratica all’interno di un processo di mobilitazione politico-econo- mica tesa a rafforzare la governabilità del territorio.
Abitare la narrazione della civilizzazione ecologica: gli spazi politico-economici del sapere nella città universitaria di Chongqing
Michela Bonato
2023-01-01
Abstract
Housing practices and narrative of ecological civilisation: political and economic entanglements within the knowledge space of Chongqing University City. Contemporary Chinese narrative of ecological civilisation is based on the material and spiritual upgrading of social and individual life conditions in relation to the environment. At the local level, it mobilises new forms of urban planning which may be linked to certain aspects of sustainability and environmental protection. The case of Chongqing University City analysed in this paper represents an interesting case of territoriality that following the expansion of the urban fringes, brings upon the planning of a liminal space characterised by infrastructural and economic restrictions. Loss of rural landscape dynamically turns into a narrative of environmental protection that incentivises gentrification as a reasonable assemblage diachronically legitimised to strengthen the governmentality of governance. The analysis sheds light on assemblage discourses in Chinese peripheral megacity. Reflecting on the absence of differentiated sovereignty despite the formation of elitist enclaves, it recognises similarities with green gentrification patterns applied in Chinese coastal megacities and global cities worldwide. It also calls for critical epistemological focus on the interweaving of institutional recognition, landscaping, and the power of aesthetic symbolism for successful competition in polycentric urban and regional schemes.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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