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Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City de Philipp Demgenski

Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City: China Understandings Today

Autor Philipp Demgenski
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2024

Considerăm că Seeking a Future for the Past reprezintă o contribuție esențială la înțelegerea mecanismelor de urbanizare în China contemporană, fiind construit pe o metodologie riguroasă de cercetare etnografică întinsă pe un deceniu. Structura volumului este concepută pentru a ghida cititorul prin straturile complexe ale puterii și spațiului, începând cu o istorie socio-spațială a centrului vechi din Qingdao (Dabaodao) și progresând către realitățile dure ale exproprierii și stagnării urbane. Autorul Philipp Demgenski organizează materialul nu doar cronologic, ci și pe categorii de actori sociali, dedicând capitole distincte rezidenților marginalizați, migranților și conservatoriștilor care caută o „autenticitate” colonială adesea în conflict cu nevoile locative actuale.

Găsim în această lucrare o analiză nuanțată a modului în care patrimoniul este utilizat ca instrument de guvernare. Spre deosebire de abordarea din China: A Historical Geography of the Urban, care oferă o perspectivă macro asupra evoluției geografice a marilor metropole, volumul de față completează perspectiva oferită de Yannan Ding prin focalizarea microscopică pe un singur sit și pe vocile celor care trăiesc la periferia deciziilor administrative. În timp ce Remaking China's Great Cities de Samuel Y. Liang explorează restructurarea marilor centre socialiste sub presiunea capitalismului global, Philipp Demgenski aduce în prim-plan „eșecurile” sau punctele de blocaj ale dezvoltării, explicând de ce conservarea patrimoniului poate duce uneori la paralizie urbană în loc de revitalizare. Stilul este academic, dar accesibil, oferind o privire onestă asupra tensiunilor dintre trecutul colonial al orașului și viitorul său dorit.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780472056378
ISBN-10: 0472056379
Pagini: 296
Ilustrații: 19 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția University of Michigan Press
Seria China Understandings Today

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte specialiștilor în studii urbane, antropologie și istoria Chinei care doresc să înțeleagă realitatea din spatele proiectelor de regenerare urbană. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care politicile de conservare afectează comunitățile de migranți și rezidenții săraci. Este un studiu de caz esențial pentru a înțelege de ce orașele chinezești moderne arată și funcționează așa cum o fac astăzi, dincolo de fațadele turistice.

Despre autor

Philipp Demgenski este un cercetător specializat în antropologie politică și urbană, cu un interes profund pentru dinamica socială a Chinei contemporane. Munca sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre guvernanță, patrimoniu cultural și transformare spațială. Prin proiectul său de cercetare desfășurat în Qingdao, Demgenski a documentat transformările de durată ale peisajului urban, reușind să integreze voci marginale în discursul academic despre dezvoltare. Expertiza sa este recunoscută în cadrul seriei China Understandings Today, unde aduce claritate asupra proceselor birocratice complexe din spatele urbanizării accelerate.

Descriere scurtă

Seeking a Future for the Past: Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City examines the complexities and changing sociopolitical dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic fieldwork in the northeastern Chinese city of Qingdao, the book tells the story of the slow, fragmented, and contentious transformation of Dabaodao—an area in the city’s former colonial center—from a place of common homes occupied by the urban poor into a showcase of architectural heritage and site for tourism and consumption. The ethnography provides a nuanced account of the diverse experiences and views of a range of groups involved in shaping, and being shaped, by the urban renewal process—local residents, migrant workers, preservationists, planners, and government officials—foregrounding the voices and experiences of marginal groups, such as migrants in the city. Unpacking structural reasons for urban developmental impasses, it paints a nuanced local picture of urban governance and political practice in contemporary urban China. Seeking a Future for the Past also weighs the positives and negatives of heritage preservation and scrutinizes the meanings and effects of “preservation” on diverse social actors. By zeroing in on the seemingly contradictory yet coexisting processes of urban stagnation and urban destruction, the book reveals the multifaceted challenges that China faces in reforming its urbanization practices and, ultimately, in managing its urban future.

Notă biografică

Philipp Demgenski is Assistant Professor in Anthropology within the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University.

Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter 1: The past: A socio-spatial history of the inner city
Chapter 2: Redevelopment: From demolition to preservation to stagnation
Chapter 3: Local residents: Living in the center at the margins of the city
Chapter 4: Expropriation: The burden of the past
Chapter 5: Migrants: “Only” working in the inner city
Chapter 6: Preservationists: Colonial heritage and the search for authenticity
Chapter 7: The future of the inner city?
Conclusion
 

Recenzii

2025 Francis L. K. Hsu Book Prize Winner

“Seeking a Future for the Past is a sensitively written and comprehensively researched ethnographic study of the sociopolitical dynamics of urban redevelopment and renewal, charting the transformation of a small, poor, and socially marginalized neighborhood located in the center of Qingdao’s old city into a showcase for Qingdao’s heritage celebration of its modern history. I hope it becomes a major text in studies of urban transformation in China and of urban anthropology in general.”
“Seeking a Future for the Past builds on a decade of fieldwork in order to examine how different groups invest meanings in place and how they think about preservation and redevelopment. It is the most comprehensive study on redevelopment in Qingdao and will appeal to readers in urban studies, China studies, and heritage studies.”
"Research topics on urban redevelopment and renewal are often dominated by scholars from the architecture and urban design fields, so Demgenski's ethnographic approach is refreshing and unique. His book will appeal to readers not only from the field of Chinese studies in general, but also those from different disciplines including urban studies, urban planning, heritage preservation, sociology and law." 
"The author’s careful attention to local voices and interpretations captures nuances often missed in broader discussions of urban development. The work will be valuable to scholars of heritage studies, urban anthropology and contemporary China, offering fresh insights into how heritage shapes – and is shaped by – local power dynamics and social relations from the past, the present and the future."
"The anthropological approach adopted by the study, together with the rich empirical evidence, makes it a valuable resource for anyone wishing to deepen their understanding of the complexities and changing socio-political dynamics of urban renewal in contemporary China."
"The book offers a fascinating and well-illustrated account of urban life in Qingdao's degraded inner-city alleyways, with photographs, maps and documents that help the reader get an idea of Dabaodao's local sense of place. Overall, this beautifully written, well-illustrated ethnography makes a major contribution to China studies, urban studies, cultural anthropology and heritage studies." 
“Superbly researched, theoretically sophisticated, and fluidly written, Demgenski’s monograph sets a new benchmark for anthropological studies of urban China.”

"For readers ourselves who might be involved in similar urban renewal processes, this is a thought-provoking case study to explore the basic theme of public history about ‘whose public?’ and ‘whose history’ and to seek our future for our past."

Descriere

An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China