ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent +2 more
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Abstract This article examines how sustainability is mobilized as a governance strategy in large‐scale urban redevelopment. Focusing on the RIVUS Mall project in Cluj‐Napoca, alongside comparative cases from Bratislava and Gdańsk, it traces how environmental objectives are translated into institutional practices, planning rationales, and financial ...
MIHAI IACOB
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A study on the relationship between high-quality development of the logistics industry and rural revitalization across different levels of industrial structure. [PDF]
Yan B, Yao B, Wang Y.
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Abstract Participatory institutions are no longer confined to liberal democracies as autocrats around the world experiment with ‘authoritarian participation’. This also applies to the most successful democratic innovation of recent decades: participatory budgeting (PB).
DANIEL TJARKS
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TRANSNATIONAL GENTRIFICATION IN NISEKO, JAPAN: A Model of Displacement Led by Linked Migration
Abstract Transnational gentrification scholarship has provided insights into how transnational migration reshapes urban areas, yet its analytical lens has rarely extended to peripheral rural contexts outside Euro‐American settings, where distinct actors and mechanisms may emerge.
Ni Yan +8 more
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Comprehensive evaluation of digital village development in the context of rural revitalization: A case study from Jiangxi Province of China. [PDF]
Liu H, Zhang Y, Wang S, Zhao H.
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CONTESTED METABOLIC NODES: Shareholding Cooperatives and Planetary Ruralization in China
Abstract China's recent shareholding cooperative (SC) reform heralds a shift from expropriation‐led rural change to a post‐expropriation regime in which the countryside is reconstituted through circulation, capitalization, and new forms of collective governance. Existing interpretations, whether framed as market‐driven de‐collectivization, state‐led re‐
Yong Zhang
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Enhancing rural B&B management through machine learning and evolutionary game: A case study of rural revitalization in Yunnan, China. [PDF]
Jin W +6 more
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NOCTURNAL INFORMALITY: Rethinking the Temporal Politics of Urban Informality
Abstract Urban informality has long been theorized as a spatial condition of urban life—an expression of negotiation, improvisation, and survival within the uneven terrains of legality and governance. Yet this emphasis on space has obscured the temporalities through which informality is lived, governed, and contested. This essay develops the concept of
Elmond Bandauko
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