Neo-Socialist Property Rights
The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China
Seiten
2015
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0683-0 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0683-0 (ISBN)
Neo-Socialist Property Rights studies urban dwellers’ desire for housing ownership and how their acquiring and defending of property rights reshape the state-property-family relationality in neo-socialist China. This book links property rights practice to the broader human rights discourse as both a working hypothesis and a historical question.
Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers’ practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family relationality in China. Ubiquitous housing ownership has emerged together with a pervasive yet particularized rights discourse and practice in the past two decades. Ho Cheuk-Yuetconsiders them to be a condensation and vindication of the principles of family values and emergent “neo-socialist” governance. However, there are manifested and latent contradictions between rights as interests and rights as a moral principle. This book concludes that private property rights are at once enabling and disabling when understood in the light of both the rigorous pursuit of well-being in a market economy and the contestation by those who resist forced eviction or the infringement of owners’ rights. In this book, Ho provides rarely available ethnographic record of the encounters between evictees and evictors engaged in housing demolition and approaches the topic of urban housing ownership from the investing perspective in contrast to most anthropologists’ consumption-focus analysis. Neo-Socialist Property Rights links property rights practice to the broader human rights discourse as both a working hypothesis and a historical question.
Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers’ practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family relationality in China. Ubiquitous housing ownership has emerged together with a pervasive yet particularized rights discourse and practice in the past two decades. Ho Cheuk-Yuetconsiders them to be a condensation and vindication of the principles of family values and emergent “neo-socialist” governance. However, there are manifested and latent contradictions between rights as interests and rights as a moral principle. This book concludes that private property rights are at once enabling and disabling when understood in the light of both the rigorous pursuit of well-being in a market economy and the contestation by those who resist forced eviction or the infringement of owners’ rights. In this book, Ho provides rarely available ethnographic record of the encounters between evictees and evictors engaged in housing demolition and approaches the topic of urban housing ownership from the investing perspective in contrast to most anthropologists’ consumption-focus analysis. Neo-Socialist Property Rights links property rights practice to the broader human rights discourse as both a working hypothesis and a historical question.
Ho Cheuk-Yuet is adjunct assistant professorof anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
List of Figures
Glossary of Chinese Terms
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction: From Vice to the Virtue of Owning Private Property
Chapter 2 Exit, or Evict: Re-grounding Rights in Need
Chapter 3 Bargaining Demolition: When Needs and Desires Meet
Chapter 4 Investing Citizens: Embracing Desires and Risks
Chapter 5 Affective Ownership: Situating Rights in Desires
Chapter 6 The Property Question: Meanings and Values
Chapter 7 The Real Life of Rights: A Detour from Needs and Desires to Interests
Chapter 8 Final Thoughts: The Ambivalence of Rights
Afterword Locating and Mislocating Rights in Neo-Socialist China
Appendix Research Methods
References
Index
| Zusatzinfo | 10 BW Photos |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 162 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 490 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-0683-6 / 1498506836 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-0683-0 / 9781498506830 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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