Curbing the power of developers? Law and power in Chinese and English gated urban enclaves

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.01.011

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	Curbing the power of developers? Law and power in Chinese and English gated urban enclaves
	Blandy, Sarah 1; Wang, Feng 2
刊名	GEOFORUM
	2013-06
卷号	47 页码:199-208
关键词	Common property Chinese gated urban enclaves English gated urban enclaves Legal geographies Modalities of power Types of law
ISSN号	0016-7185
DOI	10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.01.011
英文摘要	This article contributes to the legal geography literature through exploration of the contested concepts of power and law and their interconnected processes. Research findings from studies of urban gated enclaves in China and in England are used as a starting point to analyse the spatialisation of power in the creation of gated urban enclaves, with a particular focus on the role of law. Four categories of law are identified. The article suggests an analytical framework for understanding how particular modalities of power intersect with these different types of law. This framework is then applied to temporal stages in the creation of gated enclaves, in the context of the different legal geographies of China and England. In the final analysis, the manipulative power of neoliberalism outweighs law's authority, for example when developers form alliances with municipal government to circumvent 'policy' and 'regulatory' law. Property rights as conceptualised through 'high' law are shown to be ineffective in resolving problems experienced by residents of specific enclaves, particularly those relating to common property rights. Developers were found to use 'facilitative' law to gain control of the juridical field, materialised through property rights allocation and resolution of disputes within urban enclaves. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
WOS研究方向	Geography
语种	英语
出版者	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000320908300023
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://10.2.47.112/handle/2XS4QKH4/1978]
专题	上海财经大学
通讯作者	Blandy, Sarah
作者单位	1.Univ Sheffield, Sch Law, Sheffield S3 7ND, S Yorkshire, England; 2.Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Publ Econ & Adm, Shanghai 200433, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Blandy, Sarah,Wang, Feng. Curbing the power of developers? Law and power in Chinese and English gated urban enclaves[J]. GEOFORUM,2013,47:199-208.
APA	Blandy, Sarah,&Wang, Feng.(2013).Curbing the power of developers? Law and power in Chinese and English gated urban enclaves.GEOFORUM,47,199-208.
MLA	Blandy, Sarah,et al."Curbing the power of developers? Law and power in Chinese and English gated urban enclaves".GEOFORUM 47(2013):199-208.