State territorialization through<i>shequ</i>community centres: bureaucratic confusion in Xinjiang, China

Tynen, Sarah

doi:10.1080/21622671.2019.1643778

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“…Understanding these hybrid forms are crucial to understand specific places better. The places explored in this issue are Hyderabad, India (Sood & Kennedy, 2019, in this issue); rural China (Tynen, 2019, in this issue); Korea (Lim and Sziarto, 2020, in this issue); Singapore (Luger, 2019, in this issue); and the 'Sanctuary Cities' of the United States (Kuge, 2019, in this issue).…”

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“…Finally, we seek to expand the definition and scope/scale of illiberalism and to broaden understanding beyond what is normally discussed in political science and political geography. For example, how illiberalism informs public health policy and thus crosses into health geographies (Lim, In Press, in this issue); the way that cyberspace has allowed illiberalism to stretch and reconfigure digital conversations and identities, thus pushing into the geohumanities and media studies (Luger, 2019, in this issue); the way that illiberalism is experienced via community planning and the grassroots, thus bridging the political with planning (Sood & Kennedy, In Press, in this issue;Tynen, 2019, in this issue), and the way that illiberalism merges with the debates on immigration and place (Kuge, 2019, in this issue). In broadening and expanding how to frame illiberalism, we suggest incorporating much broader concepts such as 'welcome' or 'inclusion/exclusion', and the way these can create spaces across place/territory into a discussion on illiberalism (echoing, for example, Gill, 2018, on spaces of 'welcome' versus 'unwelcome' for refugees; or Gökariksel & Smith, 2018, on spaces of exclusion).…”

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“…The papers in this issue are diverse not only in terms of geographical cases and territorial versus aterritorial approaches to state and society but also in their methodologies and range of empirical findings. Sarah Tynen (Tynen, 2019, in this issue) draws from interviews and site-based observation in western China to suggest that community centres are powerful mechanisms for Chinese state territorialization and the induction of control and discipline of the minority, Muslim, Uyghur population. Tynen's portrayal of the ordinary, local community as a powerful biopolitical agent reconfigures traditional conceptions of the top-down and monumental nature of Chinese authoritarianism.…”

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Questioning planetary illiberal geographies: territory, space and power

Luger

2020

Territory, Politics, Governance

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In the news media, stories abound of nationalist outbursts, of authoritarian repression, of populist eruptions and of closures/enclosures of space, and of freedoms. Strikingly, these stories have and continue to be amplified and mobilized by social media. When publics around the world demand the freedom to express themselves and generate online opinion, it can be difficult to distinguish between genuine public sentiment and manufactured outrage. Governments around the world from Donald Trump's America to Rodrigo Duterte's Philippines are proving adept at 'rigging' outbursts, generating repressions and unleashing populist arrows (e.g., 'Send them home', 'Lock her up').Before predicting the demise of liberalism and the dawn of a new, more illiberal age, it is necessary to pause and reflect on the weight, meaning, and construction of these terms and concepts. It is salutary to recall that the term 'illiberal democracy' was first coined in 1997 by the Indian-American journalist Fareed Zakaria (Zakaria, 1997). Zakaria argued that all around the world there were democratically elected regimes routinely avoiding constitutional limits and restraints. His point was simple: democracy is flourishing but constitutional liberalism is not.Twenty years later, we might ask whether normative understandings of illiberalism be made or unmade? Is illiberalism appropriate as a frame for a comparative approach to territory, space and power, given the trouble of categories such as 'East', 'West', and the associated (mis)conceptions about moral geographies and politics? Where are illiberalism's origins, influences, endpoints, boundaries and limits? Certainly, things such as the postcolonial reordering and rescaling of nation-states and the advent of 'do-it-yourself' geopolitics via social media (which has upended hierarchies, rescaled borders and allowed for new types of political encounters) suggest that such a rethink is necessary.Second, before heralding the planetary nature of illiberalism, it is important to zoom in on the local and reconsider the role of situated context, and the embedded/embodied flows of power attached to place. To what degree, for example, are Chinese state-society relations and the oppression of the Uyghur people comparable (or not) with other states, with other oppressions? What lessons can, or cannot, be learned from such a comparison? And does such a comparison perpetuate an East-West moral hierarchy, a sort of illiberal Orientalism?Third, moving away from the mainstream news, from the spectacular and from the violent, we seek to look more closely at the ordinary, the mundane and the everyday operations, flows and embodied performances of illiberalism and illiberal powerin other words, a popular geopolitics (e.g., Agnew & Shin, 2019). Through mechanisms as seemingly ordinary and banal as community centres, public health infrastructure, urban planning strategies, WhatsApp conversations and the local geographies of sanctuary, the relational processes of illiberalism come into view. However,

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Section: Beyond Illiberal Normativity? This Special Issuementioning

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Section: Beyond Illiberal Normativity? This Special Issuementioning

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“…The security staff or a doorman (porter) are also cooperating with community residential office. Police stations are always coordinating with the community residential office [51,52]. Finally, China has a residential registration system that can help track every civilian during the pandemic of COVID-19.…”

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“…Finally, China has a residential registration system that can help track every civilian during the pandemic of COVID-19. Police station is in charge of the residential registration [52]. The residential registration sometimes may be not so strictly for everybody.…”

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China Neighborhood and Village Committee confront the COVID-19 Pandemic；Cultural History and Tracking back Review of Relevant Public Health Events in Last Century

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Jia²,

Li³

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Managing epidemics need to unite each individual of the nations. Lockdown is an essential strategy to fatal and threatening epidemic. All of the citizens should realize that each of people has a responsibility to support the public health crisis. How to organize individual to fight against the epidemic plaque depends each of them. This essay discussed the COVID-19 pandemic relevant self-governance of community from a historical perspective in China. Self-governance of neighborhood committee and community residential office in urban and rural helped to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the communities in China. Co-operation and collective responsibility of citizens and community support is a critical condition to prevent epidemic. The community self-governance can track back Qin Dynasty in China history. It established baojia system to maintain social control for thousand years. Now, the community-based system, baojia system is becoming more autonomous for local citizenship and socialized governance in China. We reviewed a historical pneumonia plaque in North China in 1911. Chinese doctor, Wu Lien-teh (伍連德) confronted the epidemic crisis with many measures such as lockdown, quarantine, the wearing of mask, setup mobile hospitals, travel restriction, the cremation of victims, and border control. Dr. Wu made effort to establish the modern public health service in China. We think that the combination of culture background of China community with modern public healthcare system determinedly played important role to control the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Dispossession and displacement of migrant workers: the impact of state terror and economic development on Uyghurs in urban Xinjiang

Tynen

2020

Central Asian Survey

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State territorialization throughshequcommunity centres: bureaucratic confusion in Xinjiang, China

Cited by 7 publications

References 19 publications

Questioning planetary illiberal geographies: territory, space and power

Questioning planetary illiberal geographies: territory, space and power

China Neighborhood and Village Committee confront the COVID-19 Pandemic；Cultural History and Tracking back Review of Relevant Public Health Events in Last Century

Dispossession and displacement of migrant workers: the impact of state terror and economic development on Uyghurs in urban Xinjiang

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