Neo-Socialist Property Rights (eBook)

The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China

Cheuk-Yuet Ho (Autor)

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2015
300 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0684-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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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 "e;neo-socialist"e; 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.

Autor

Ho Cheuk-Yuet is honorary postdoctoral fellow of anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Inhalt

List of FiguresGlossary of Chinese TermsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1 Introduction: From Vice to the Virtue of Owning Private PropertyChapter 2 Exit, or Evict: Re-grounding Rights in NeedChapter 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 InterestsChapter 8 Final Thoughts: The Ambivalence of Rights AfterwordLocating and Mislocating Rights in Neo-Socialist ChinaAppendix Research MethodsReferences Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.7.2015
• Zusatzinfo: 10 Illustrations including: - 10 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Baurecht (privat)
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Besonderes Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen
• Themenwelt: Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Immobilienwirtschaft
• Schlagworte: Chinese Neo-Socialism • Forced Eviction • housing demolition • housing investment • Human Rights • need, desire, and interest • parental gift • property rights • relational ethics • welfare housing
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0684-4 / 1498506844
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0684-7 / 9781498506847