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ID178309
Title ProperMore Than “Peasants Without Land”
Other Title InformationIndividualisation and Identity Formation of Landless Peasants in the Process of China’s State-Led Rural Urbanisation
LanguageENG
AuthorHeger, Isabel
Summary / Abstract (Note)In the course of state-led rural urbanisation over the past few decades, millions of Chinese peasants have been expropriated and relocated. After establishing a definition of these “landless peasants” as a heterogeneous social group connected mainly by the fact that its members had to give up their land-use rights, this article sets out to examine subsequent processes of identity formation – a topic that has been largely neglected in existing research. Drawing on Beck’s individualisation thesis, I suggest that structural and institutional changes in the process of rural modernisation have initiated a further thrust of individualisation in people’s lives which manifests not only in the objective domain of life situations but also in the subjective domain of identity. This hypothesis is substantiated through an ethnographic case study based on seven months of fieldwork (2016–2018) in Huaming Model Town in the Dongli District of Tianjin. As a first step towards conceptualising what landless peasants are becoming, I will propose to start focusing on recombinant identities and class differentiations evolving among the people.
`In' analytical NoteJournal of Current Chinese Affairs Vol. 49, No.3; Dec 2020: p.332-356
Journal SourceJournal of Current Chinese Affairs Vol: 49 No 3
Key WordsIndividualisation ;  Landless Peasants ;  Compressed Modernisation ;  Recombinant Identities


 
 
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