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Title: | Aesthetic governance and China's rural toilet revolution | Authors: | Lan, X Ku, HB Zhan, Y |
Issue Date: | Mar-2024 | Source: | Development and change, Mar. 2024, v. 55, no. 2, p. 219-243 | Abstract: | This article addresses aesthetic politics in the Chinese rural toilet revolution. Toilet retrofitting is conventionally regarded as an issue of sanitation improvement, but in the emerging trend of rural post-productivism transformation, toilets have become contested sites of aesthetic governance in rural development. Using the case of a village in Northern China, the authors show that, in order to beautify the rural environment, toilet identification, selection, placement and demolition are all directed by aesthetic norms for a beautiful village. Additionally, the aestheticization of village development has legitimized state-led development by creating a common-sense understanding of and imagination for the future. However, aesthetic logics can represent a mismatch with the realities of local lives, resulting in place alienation and suspended development. This article unpacks the logics, mechanisms and spatial-social processes of aesthetic governance in the Chinese toilet revolution. | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | Journal: | Development and change | ISSN: | 0012-155X | EISSN: | 1467-7660 | DOI: | 10.1111/dech.12823 | Rights: | © 2024 The Authors. Development and Change published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalfof Institute of Social Studies. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCom-mercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided theoriginal work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptationsare made. The following publication Lan, X., Ku, H.B. and Zhan, Y. (2024), Aesthetic Governance and China's Rural Toilet Revolution. Dev Change, 55: 219-243 is available at https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12823. |
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