Chapter 3. Broken wing: Affective geographies of China’s state-owned enterprise reform
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Shuang Wu
Abstract
This paper delineates the affective geographies of China’s socioeconomic transformations by studying the reform of China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) under globalisation. Drawing on the scholarship of relational economic geography and affective relations in everyday life, we investigate SOE reform through affective relations and their potentials in reproducing social, spatial, and temporal relations. Specifically, we explore how SOEs may be active contexts by focusing on SOE everyday life. A case study of SOEs in the northeastern provinces of China is deployed, and triangulates data sources of secondary statistics, personal biography, and movie stills. The data show that the ways workers attached meanings to two affective relations of stabilities and mobilities informed their ongoing strategies in everyday life, and led to potential in divergent ways. This suggests SOEs as active contexts associated with some remaking of social, spatial, and temporal relations. The paper contributes an empirically rich case study to the affective geographies of China’s socioeconomic transformations by combining plural data. Theoretically, it expands relational economic geography by investigating affective relations of everyday life, and broadens the understanding of SOEs as involved in the production of new cultural economies.
Abstract
This paper delineates the affective geographies of China’s socioeconomic transformations by studying the reform of China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs) under globalisation. Drawing on the scholarship of relational economic geography and affective relations in everyday life, we investigate SOE reform through affective relations and their potentials in reproducing social, spatial, and temporal relations. Specifically, we explore how SOEs may be active contexts by focusing on SOE everyday life. A case study of SOEs in the northeastern provinces of China is deployed, and triangulates data sources of secondary statistics, personal biography, and movie stills. The data show that the ways workers attached meanings to two affective relations of stabilities and mobilities informed their ongoing strategies in everyday life, and led to potential in divergent ways. This suggests SOEs as active contexts associated with some remaking of social, spatial, and temporal relations. The paper contributes an empirically rich case study to the affective geographies of China’s socioeconomic transformations by combining plural data. Theoretically, it expands relational economic geography by investigating affective relations of everyday life, and broadens the understanding of SOEs as involved in the production of new cultural economies.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- List of Figures IX
- List of Tables XI
- Chapter 1. China and the global era: From globalisation to everyday life 1
- Chapter 2. Origin effects, spatial dynamics, and redistribution of foreign direct investment in Guangdong, China 21
- Chapter 3. Broken wing: Affective geographies of China’s state-owned enterprise reform 45
- Chapter 4. Neoliberalisation and community development: Comparing community development services in Hong Kong and Beijing 65
- Chapter 5. A review of the effective features of Facebook in social media-based interventions to increase adolescents’ physical activity 89
- Chapter 6. Gender and social capital: The case of a deprived urban community in Hong Kong 103
- Chapter 7. Framing migrant domestic workers inside transnational businesses: A case study of Bangladeshi women travelling to Hong Kong, and their Hong Kong-based employment agencies 135
- Chapter 8. Aurora College for Women in Shanghai, 1937–1951 155
- Chapter 9. The local mutation of professional academic organisations and its fragmentising effect under academic globalisation: Evidence from modern China and Japan 173
- Chapter 10. German Romantic ideals and the revival of traditional Chinese culture in early twentieth century China 191
- Chapter 11. Urban resilience in China: Government action and community response 207
- Index 225
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- List of Figures IX
- List of Tables XI
- Chapter 1. China and the global era: From globalisation to everyday life 1
- Chapter 2. Origin effects, spatial dynamics, and redistribution of foreign direct investment in Guangdong, China 21
- Chapter 3. Broken wing: Affective geographies of China’s state-owned enterprise reform 45
- Chapter 4. Neoliberalisation and community development: Comparing community development services in Hong Kong and Beijing 65
- Chapter 5. A review of the effective features of Facebook in social media-based interventions to increase adolescents’ physical activity 89
- Chapter 6. Gender and social capital: The case of a deprived urban community in Hong Kong 103
- Chapter 7. Framing migrant domestic workers inside transnational businesses: A case study of Bangladeshi women travelling to Hong Kong, and their Hong Kong-based employment agencies 135
- Chapter 8. Aurora College for Women in Shanghai, 1937–1951 155
- Chapter 9. The local mutation of professional academic organisations and its fragmentising effect under academic globalisation: Evidence from modern China and Japan 173
- Chapter 10. German Romantic ideals and the revival of traditional Chinese culture in early twentieth century China 191
- Chapter 11. Urban resilience in China: Government action and community response 207
- Index 225
