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The "Rigid Demand": The Culture of Home-Buying in Post-socialist China
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The "Rigid Demand": The Culture of Home-Buying in Post-socialist China
Yazar:
Wang, Mengqi, author.
ISBN:
9780438051898
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1 electronic resource (208 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-10(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Elizabeth Emma Ferry Committee members: Jonathan Anjaria; Jane McIntosh; Robert Weller.
Özet:
This dissertation studies the sociocultural and technical making of China's housing market with a focus on the Chinese concept of "rigid demand." Rigid demand refers to the belief that people have to buy a home regardless of the price. The people with a rigid demand for homes are those who will live in their bought homes, rather than speculators or landlords who buy with the purpose of collecting profit. Developers and estate agents market rigid demand housing development that boasts lower prices, efficient living areas, and a family-friendly community. The Chinese state regulates the real estate market in the name of protecting people with a rigid demand (Wang, 2017). The research is based on four years of intermittent ethnographic fieldwork from 2011 to 2015 in Nanjing, southeast China. From September 2013 to August 2015, I carried out long-term research in east Nanjing's urban frontier with developers, estate agents, demolition cadres, homebuyers, and homeowners. My primary field site was in Eastern Town (pseudo name), a mega housing community. With potentially the cheapest property price in Nanjing, it is also the ideal option for buyers with limited economic resources who also self-identify as having a rigid demand. Based on data collected through participant-observation, 56 long-term and semi-structured interviews, and 4 focus group discussions, I trace how rigid demand is put to use in constructing the urban housing Market in Eastern Nanjing's urban frontier. I ask what does the idea of rigid demand do and what assemblages can it help constitute. In doing so, I show how a study of the political, economic, and technical configuration of China's housing market may broaden our understanding of the ways in which housing economy could possibly work.
To study how rigid demand is put to use, I examine buyers, realtors, and resettled residents' encounters with econometric devices such as prices, mortgage interests, and compensation standards in resettlement in the making of the housing market. For instance, chapter 2 examines how resettled residents negotiate compensatory norms and develop their own theory of home value in government-led housing liquidation. Chapter 4 explores the gendered finance of homes bought as marriage preparations (in which down payment is marked as a male contribution). I show how, hinged on the institution of private homeownership, the assemblage that enables market-mediated real estate transactions forms routes of accumulation through which families turn their savings into mortgages. Moreover, by examining acts of home buying as value-making activities, I argue that this is also a process of value transformation in which private homeownership becomes imperative in urbanizing China. Finally, I explore the emancipatory potential entailed in the logic of rigid demand as well as its implications for understanding China's "socialist market economy."
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School code: 0021
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