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Cultural strategies of development: implications for village governance in China
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Since the early 1990s, culture has come to be recognized as a significant regional development resource in China. This paper raises the question of whether cultural strategies of development have ameliorated or exacerbated the government's increasing inability to provide for the public's basic needs. Specifically, it asks: what are the implications of China's cultural strategies of regional development for local-level governance? Three case study villages in Guizhou are examined, each revealing different ways that villages have engaged state development strategies, each with different outcomes. I argue that cultural strategies of development in China introduce a capital logic that greatly influences village governance. Cultural strategies create economic value where none before existed and thus initiate new struggles over ownership among villagers, state actors and entrepreneurs. The privatization of cultural resources has presented new challenges to village governance even while it has been promoted as both an answer to the fiscal challenges faced by many rural communities and a key to the establishment of a new kind of rural citizen.
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“As Tim Oakes (2006) notes, it was in the early 1990s that the Central Government put 'culture' clearly on the development agenda as an artifact in its own right.”
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“Oakes (2006) refers to this as China's own 'cultural turn' in regional development strategies, in which 'cultural resources (including repackaged and reinvented cultural heritage) have come to be viewed as possessing equal if not greater economic potential than traditional factor endowments typically marshaled by local governments in their development planning' (Oakes 2006: 14).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Oakes, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Colorado Boulder (US)
- Corresponding author
- Oakes, Tim
- ORCID
- Oakes, Tim
- Venue
- The Pacific Review
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2006-03
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 13-37
- ISSN
- 0951-2748 (ISSN-L)
- 1470-1332
- OpenAlex
- W2061688302
- Cited by
- 51
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 6.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- Locations
- The Pacific Review (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Regional Development and Environment
- Social Sciences › Development › Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Keywords
- village governance, regional development, cultural capital, rural citizenship, local governance, state development strategy
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