Li, Guotai (2023) How is spatial governance changing under the construction of new relations of production? -- Based on the case study of Jiangling Village, Guangdong Province. Master thesis.
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Abstract
E-commerce, as a kind of production relations, is closely linked to the process of rural revitalization in China. For this reason, the construction of an e-commerce village is both a change in production relations and a change in village space, becoming one of the focal points of the academic community. However, there are few existing studies on village governance, and these suffer from a split between 'bottom-up' and 'top-down' perspectives, a split between cross-regional networks within and outside villages, and a lack of historical continuity. In order to avoid these problems, this thesis uses a framework of 'flow space' and 'translation' to study e-commerce and its impact on spatial governance. A typical case study is taken from Jiangling Village in C City, Guangdong Province. Meanwhile, the thesis uses a chronological narrative to detail how three key actors i.e., the government, village committees and e-commerce households translate e-commerce into a network of local actors through a process of translation, which leads to a distinction between the governance of space and the governance of production relations within space among different actors. Through this study, this thesis answers the research question “What are the changes in rural spatial governance?” and “What are the reasons for the changes based on the revelations from case study of the Jiangling village in C city?” During the construction phase of the e-commerce village, the government, the village committee and the e-merchants were in a state of "three networks under one", which jointly influenced the village space and production relations within the space. However, after the completion of the e-commerce village in 2018, the withdrawal of the municipality led to the separation and division of the government, the village committee and the e-merchant households into "three networks in parallel", in which the town government and the village committee only maintain the spatial landscape of the village, while the e-merchant households deal with the dilemmas of production relations alone. In terms of the causes of change in governance, this thesis finds that municipal government power links reconfigure multiple networks of governance, and that administrative power contributes to the "three networks in one", giving town and village councils the function of governing the space and production relations within it. Differences in the embedding of production relations lead to the 'three networks in parallel', with different actors focusing on the governance of space and its production relations. The contradiction between the 'space of flow' and 'locality' of production relations in e-commerce is the source of the fragmentation of governing the space and production relations within it.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Society, Sustainability and Planning (MSc Socio-spatial Planning) |
| Supervisor: | Roo, G. de |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2023 13:35 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Oct 2023 13:35 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/4407 |
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