TY - JOUR
T1 - Creating land markets for rural revitalization
T2 - Land transfer, property rights and gentrification in China
AU - Kan, Karita
N1 - Funding Information:
Aside from financial support, recreational capital also benefits from prioritized land use. In the strategic plan for the implementation of rural revitalization, the Zhuhai government specified that rural revitalization projects would receive priority in terms of land use quotas. The land use quotas for six types of new rural industries – including rural tourism, recreational farming, experiential farming and creative agriculture – are guaranteed under municipal regulations to ensure that land is made available for recreational development ( Zhuhai Municipal Government, 2018a ).
Funding Information:
The author would like to thank the editor and reviewers for their insightful comments on the manuscript. The research assistance provided by Vivien Chan and Chen Xi is gratefully acknowledged. The work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region , China (Project No. PolyU 25604917 ).
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PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - The reform of collective land ownership in post-socialist contexts offers a useful window into how changes in property rights shape and structure the dynamics of territorial transformation. Focusing on China's rural revitalization campaign, this paper demonstrates how the state, as creator and regulator of land rights and property titles, facilitates landscape change by relaxing regulations over the lease of rural land and creating market institutions that favour land transfers to organized capital, in this case tourism companies and property developers. Far from being a spontaneous process of pure market forces and consumer demand, the state is actively harnessing market forces to achieve land use change and extend planning control over rural land. On the ground, the expanding presence of recreational capital has brought about the remaking of Chinese villages into leisure farms, holiday guesthouses and ecological parks geared towards touristic consumption. The paper calls for further attention to processes of exclusion and displacement that this transformation might engender. By exploring the dynamics of rural gentrification in a post-socialist context, this paper makes the case for the need to pay more attention to the comparative study of property rights and ownership regimes in rural gentrification research, and highlights how the intersection of property rights and state power reveals nuances that underscore the importance of going beyond Western conceptualizations of gentrification.
AB - The reform of collective land ownership in post-socialist contexts offers a useful window into how changes in property rights shape and structure the dynamics of territorial transformation. Focusing on China's rural revitalization campaign, this paper demonstrates how the state, as creator and regulator of land rights and property titles, facilitates landscape change by relaxing regulations over the lease of rural land and creating market institutions that favour land transfers to organized capital, in this case tourism companies and property developers. Far from being a spontaneous process of pure market forces and consumer demand, the state is actively harnessing market forces to achieve land use change and extend planning control over rural land. On the ground, the expanding presence of recreational capital has brought about the remaking of Chinese villages into leisure farms, holiday guesthouses and ecological parks geared towards touristic consumption. The paper calls for further attention to processes of exclusion and displacement that this transformation might engender. By exploring the dynamics of rural gentrification in a post-socialist context, this paper makes the case for the need to pay more attention to the comparative study of property rights and ownership regimes in rural gentrification research, and highlights how the intersection of property rights and state power reveals nuances that underscore the importance of going beyond Western conceptualizations of gentrification.
KW - China
KW - Land transfer
KW - Property rights
KW - Rural gentrification
KW - Rural revitalization
KW - Rural tourism
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.006
DO - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.08.006
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85096156634
VL - 81
SP - 68
EP - 77
JO - Journal of Rural Studies
JF - Journal of Rural Studies
SN - 0743-0167
ER -