Making Justice the Subject of Resettlement Planning

Otsuki, Kei

doi:10.1111/anti.12757

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“…The change of the Wuxikou resettlement sites is just transition, reflected in the event and procedural justice. The event itself was just because whether in terms of the resettlees' interests or the government's performance, the purpose of changing the resettlement sites was to create a favorable external environment to realize high-quality life and sustainable development after relocation (Otsuki, 2021). In general, this event was to compensate for the resettlees' opportunities and resources based on humanitarianism, and could evade inequalities brought to them by relocation, mitigate spatial deprivation for aboriginals and host communities, and help realize Pareto optimality in resettlement.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Second, the reasons for injustice in resettlement are analyzed, such as interactions of resettlement with politics and inequality (Wilmsen and Rogers, 2019), and power and wealth (See and Wilmsen, 2019). Third, scholars have also prescribed paths to justice in resettlement, such as inclusion and quality during resettlement (Xu et al, 2022), infrastructure as a carrier to realize justice (Otsuki, 2021), procedural justice that ensures resettlees' rights to know and participate , and reform of the human rights framework (Blake and Barney, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

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How does the grassroots drive just transition? Evidence from an alteration of resettlement sites in China

Gou¹,

Jiang²,

Chen³

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Dam-induced resettlement is a typical pattern of development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR), which concludes involuntariness and leads to injustice practices. Although the justice of resettlement is studied in existing works, few of them notice that the selection of resettlement sites might be holistically an opportunity for just transition, and the performance of this process is not totally a government arrangement. To address this gap, this paper takes the Multi-level Perspective (MLP) as the theoretical framework, and adopts mixed methods to examine a second selection case of resettlement sites for the Wuxikou dam in Jiangxi Province, China. Based on grounded theory, five categories of resettlees' demands for resettlement sites, namely agricultural production (AP), non-agricultural production (NAP), material life (ML), social life (SL), and reception of natural ecology (RNE) are identified. The multiple conjunctural causation between these demands and resettlees' actions for changing initial resettlement sites is analyzed by Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). Four intermediate solutions as well as the core and peripheral conditions are found. Apart from the bottom-up petitions, how the political environment and governmental administration enabled the resettlees' request for altering resettlement sites is illustrated. It is found that, although the government and resettlees with different interests and action logics, the same result is promoted under the national policies, viz, the implementation of changing resettlement sites, process justice and outcome justice are therein realized. Relative policy implications and outlooks on just resettlement practice are remarked.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How does the grassroots drive just transition? Evidence from an alteration of resettlement sites in China

Gou¹,

Jiang²,

Chen³

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…Otsuki (2021: 1758–1760), extends Lake’s (2016) abstract conceptualization of justice as the subject of planning to concrete cases of resettlement. Otsuki argues that it is essential to foreground the contingent needs of displaced people, anticipate rather than retroactively address issues, and generate solutions that guarantee quality of life.…”

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“…The penultimate section proposes that these social injustices can be addressed through distributional, participatory, and recognition-oriented planning mechanisms. Additionally, it discusses making justice the subject of planning (Lake, 2017; Otsuki, 2021) in China. The analysis emphasizes that without reorienting systemic drivers of inequality in urban planning, such as the commitment to economic-growth and state-led entrepreneurial planning, justice-oriented planning can offer only partial remedies.…”

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Social justice in China’s cities: Urban-rural restructuring and justice-oriented planning

Rodenbiker

2022

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research

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Research on China’s urban planning sector has largely focused on its role in delivering economic growth and state objectives. Yet China’s urban planning practices are producing new forms of social injustice, which few studies explicitly examine. The paper details three types of social injustice stemming from urban planning and urbanization processes: 1) economic disparities related to land and housing dispossession and speculation, 2) dissolution of social networks and relative precarity for rural-to-urban resettlement migrants, and 3) in-situ marginalization for residents excluded from urban planning. It further proposes that these types of social injustice can be addressed through distributional, participatory, and recognition-oriented mechanisms. Centering justice can reconfigure the aims, processes, and outcomes of planning practice, thereby reducing inequalities embedded within China’s urbanization. Without deprioritizing economic growth and state-led entrepreneurialism, however, justice-oriented planning can offer but partial remedies. The conclusion discusses pathways for researchers and planners to contribute to a just planning transition and advance social justice in China’s cities.

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“…Yet, little systemic effort has been made to accompany this process because there is little understanding about how infrastructure—both physical and social—works in the involuntary resettlement process to address the violence of resettlement. Consequently, we fail to explore how to support the new civic life emerging in resettlement villages (Otsuki, 2021) as well as how to deal with the emerging resistance. At this point, I turn to two types of water infrastructure—one for drinking water, the other for irrigation agriculture—observed in two resettlement villages built out of the community of Makavene in the district of Massingir.…”

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The violence of involuntary resettlement and emerging resistance in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park: The role of physical and social infrastructure

Otsuki

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Nature conservation turns violent when it leads to enclosure, dispossession and militarisation, causing suffering among people living in the environment that is to be protected. Resettlement projects are meant to facilitate the process of repossession for dispossessed people as the proponents promise improved housing and physical infrastructure outside the protected area. While scholarly attention has been paid to the violence of dispossession, little is known about the ways in which the post-resettlement built environment turns violent for displaced people as well as people remaining in the protected area. Drawing on field research on water infrastructure in two resettlement villages in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park (LNP), this paper analyses how the violence of resettlement is entrenched in the material, ecological and political framework that shapes the resettlement project. It pays particular attention to the process by which the resettled citizens struggle with the everyday sufferings in their new built environment in order to expose how physical infrastructure and the lack thereof led to new social infrastructure, which have enabled the remaining park residents’ resistance against resettlement. The emerging resistance indicates the urgent need to pay attention to the built environment expanding outside the conservation area in order to address the violence of resettlement as well as to pursue nature conservation itself.

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Making Justice the Subject of Resettlement Planning

Cited by 6 publications

References 66 publications

How does the grassroots drive just transition? Evidence from an alteration of resettlement sites in China

How does the grassroots drive just transition? Evidence from an alteration of resettlement sites in China

Social justice in China’s cities: Urban-rural restructuring and justice-oriented planning

The violence of involuntary resettlement and emerging resistance in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park: The role of physical and social infrastructure

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