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dc.contributorDepartment of Applied Social Sciencesen_US
dc.creatorKan, Ken_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-04T02:28:55Z-
dc.date.available2021-02-04T02:28:55Z-
dc.identifier.issn0042-0980en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10397/89064-
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.rights© Urban Studies Journal Limited 2020en_US
dc.rightsThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).en_US
dc.rightsThe following publication Kan, K. (2020). The social politics of dispossession: Informal institutions and land expropriation in China. Urban Studies, 57(16), 3331–3346 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042098019897880en_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectDispossessionen_US
dc.subjectInformal institutionsen_US
dc.subjectLand expropriationen_US
dc.subjectRedevelopmenten_US
dc.titleThe social politics of dispossession : informal institutions and land expropriation in Chinaen_US
dc.typeJournal/Magazine Articleen_US
dc.identifier.spage3331en_US
dc.identifier.epage3346en_US
dc.identifier.volume57en_US
dc.identifier.issue16en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0042098019897880en_US
dcterms.abstractExtant studies on land dispossession often focus on its economic and extra-economic aspects, with respective emphasis on the operation of market mechanisms and the deployment of state-led coercion in bringing about the separation of households from their land. This article draws attention to the under-examined role of informal institutions in the politics of dispossession. Social organisations such as lineages and clans pervade grassroots societies and are central to land control and configurations of property rights. In China, the reconsolidation of lineages as shareholding corporations that develop real estate and operate land transfers has rendered them prominent actors in the politics of land and urbanisation. Drawing on an empirical case study, this article argues that informal institutions play a crucial role in mediating both the economic and extra-economic processes of dispossession. It further shows how, by providing the networks necessary for collective mobilisation and supplying the normative framework through which rightful shares in land are claimed, social organisations are at the same time instrumental in the organisation of anti-dispossession struggles. By unravelling the social dynamics that underlie land expropriation, this article offers a nuanced perspective to the politics of dispossession that goes beyond narratives of state-led coercion and market compulsion.en_US
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dcterms.bibliographicCitationUrban studies, 1 Dec. 2020, v. 57, no. 16, p. 3331-3346en_US
dcterms.isPartOfUrban studiesen_US
dcterms.issued2020-12-01-
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