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Neo-Socialist Property Rights
The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China
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2015
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Neo-Socialist Property Rights: The Predicament of Housing Ownership in China examines how urban dwellers’ practices of acquiring and defending property rights reshape state-property-family relationality in China. Ubiquitous housing ownership has emerged together with a pervasive yet particularized rights discourse and practice in the past two decades. Cheuk Yuet Ho considers them to be a condensation and vindication of the principles of family values and emergent “neo-socialist” governance. However, there are manifested and latent contradictions between rights as interests and rights as a moral principle. The book concludes that private property rights are at once enabling and disabling when understood in the light of both the rigorous pursuit of well-being in a market economy and the contestation by those who resist forced eviction or the infringement of owners’ rights. In this book, Ho provides rarely available ethnographic record of the encounters between evictees and evictors engaged in housing demolition and approaches the topic of urban housing ownership from the investing perspective in contrast to most anthropologists’ consumption-focus analysis. Neo-Socialist Property Rights links property rights practice to the broader human rights discourse as both a working hypothesis and a historical question.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-0683-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-0684-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
225
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Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 36
2 Exit, or Evict No access Pages 37 - 58
3 Bargaining Demolition No access Pages 59 - 82
4 Investing Citizens No access Pages 83 - 104
5 Affective Ownership No access Pages 105 - 124
6 The Property Question No access Pages 125 - 148
7 The Real Life of Rights No access Pages 149 - 172
