Hyperbuilding the civilized city: ethnicity and marginalization in Eastern Tibet

Grant, Andrew

doi:10.1080/14672715.2018.1514270

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“…As "Civilized City" is the most valuable city brand, the government should publicize "Civilized Cities" more widely to attract more domestic and international tourists, and contribute to the sustainable growth of the tourism economy. City honor shows the vitality, potential [38], and competitiveness of a city's future development [39]. Government departments should make full use of the city honor, carry out tourism publicity activities, improve the attractiveness and visibility of the city [40], and promote the development of tourism and economic development.…”

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Do City Honors Increase Tourism Economic Growth? A Quasi-Natural Experimental Research Study Based on “Civilized City” Selection in China

Qiao¹,

Mao²

2021

Sustainability

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“Civilized City” is the highest honor in China’s urban evaluation system. This research used a quasi-natural experiment approach to evaluate how the “Civilized City” designation influence tourism economic growth. The results showed that: (1) “Civilized City” selection promotes the growth of the tourism economy, and its impact on tourism income is greater than on the number of tourists. The “Civilized City” award is more conducive to the growth of the tourism economy than other city honors; (2) the “Civilized City” honor promotes institutional supply and adjusts the allocation of capital and labor, thereby promoting the growth of the tourism economy; and (3) the analysis showed that the impact of the “Civilized City” honor on a city’s tourism economy varies according to region, administrative level, and population size. The results of this research provide empirical support that city honors boost tourism economy growth and yield new evidence for cities to promote tourism development through awards and accreditations.

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Do City Honors Increase Tourism Economic Growth? A Quasi-Natural Experimental Research Study Based on “Civilized City” Selection in China

Qiao¹,

Mao²

2021

Sustainability

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“…Emily Yeh examines how urbanization achieves state territorialization and the transformation of Tibetan subjectivities (Yeh, 2013). Other issues addressed in this literature include dispossession and displacement (Tashi Nyima 2011;Hillman, 2013); the erosion of communal sovereignty and the role of authoritarian capitalism in urbanization (Makley, 2018); the ways urbanization places assimilatory pressures on Tibetans (Grant, 2018a), and exposes them to discrimination (Grant, 2017); and how the centralization of government services drives rural abandonment and urbanization (Tsering Bum, 2018). This research is broadly demonstrative of the Anglophone interest in minorities in the PRC primarily as examples of "marginalized urban lives" (Engebretsen, 2016).…”

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Urbanizing Minority Minzu in the PRC: Insights from the Literature on Settler Colonialism

Wang

Roche

2021

Modern China

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This article provides a synthesis and critical review of the literature on urban minority minzu 民族 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The vast majority of the Chinese-language literature on minorities in cities adopts a state-centric view through the lens of stability and integration, focusing on how minorities can adapt to urban life for the purpose of creating a “harmonized” society. This statist narrative not only denies the subjectivity of minorities in the city but also constrains the understandings of the dynamics of urban indigeneity. In this article, we draw on the literature of urban Indigenous peoples in settler colonial contexts to suggest new ways of examining the urban experience of minority minzu in the PRC. We suggest that this literature provides useful insights that help center the subjectivities and agency of Indigenous people in the PRC’s cities. Literature on urban minorities in the PRC can be expanded by engaging with the Indigenous urbanization literature to include coverage of three topics: representation (how minority people are shown as belonging to the city), mobilization (the use of urban space by minority people to pursue social, cultural, and political projects), and mobility (movement and interconnectedness between rural homelands and the city).

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“…Urbanisation is contemporary China’s engine of economic growth, and is understood as development itself. Educational opportunities, medical care, and sites of employment are concentrated in cities, and policies such as “ecological migration,” rangeland destocking, and school consolidation have moved rural pastoralists to urban settlements (Grant, 2018; Washul, 2018; Yeh & Makley, 2018). While the older generation of rural residents has begun to migrate seasonally for labour as needs for cash increase, those younger than about 35 are additionally motivated by desires for freedom, personal autonomy, and the search for a modern identity (Zhaxi, 2020).…”

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The cultural politics of new Tibetan entrepreneurship in contemporary China: Valorisation and the question of neoliberalism

Yeh

2021

Trans Inst British Geog

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Over the past decade, new forms of Tibetan entrepreneurship have emerged and proliferated in China, at the intersection of a national push for entrepreneurship in response to a slowing economy, the closure of non‐governmental organisations in Tibetan areas, declining state‐sector employment, and state concerns about stability. This paper explores the rise of these new Tibetan entrepreneurs in relation to two inter‐related concerns. First, it contributes to geographers’ calls for comparative studies of culturally specific meanings of entrepreneurship across the Global South. It explores the cultural politics of Tibetan entrepreneurship – active debates about what it means to be a proper Tibetan, in terms of religious commitments and cultural pride, in relation to money‐making activities. Second, it analyses these in relation to critiques of neoliberal subjectivities associated with entrepreneurship. One of the key themes of Tibetan entrepreneurship is the effort to create economic value in the service of cultural value and a sense of self‐worth for Tibetans living in rural areas. Thus, elements of the neoliberal self are sutured together with a sense of responsibility to Tibetan communities and historically sedimented idioms to form an entrepreneurial subjectivity that is broadly oriented to the project of revalorising Tibetan places and people.

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Hyperbuilding the civilized city: ethnicity and marginalization in Eastern Tibet

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

Do City Honors Increase Tourism Economic Growth? A Quasi-Natural Experimental Research Study Based on “Civilized City” Selection in China

Do City Honors Increase Tourism Economic Growth? A Quasi-Natural Experimental Research Study Based on “Civilized City” Selection in China

Urbanizing Minority Minzu in the PRC: Insights from the Literature on Settler Colonialism

The cultural politics of new Tibetan entrepreneurship in contemporary China: Valorisation and the question of neoliberalism

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