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作者

Ngai Ming Yip

来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS,Vol.42,Issue2,P.222-240

语言

英文

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作者单位

City University of Hong Kong

摘要

In the social movement literature, networked organizations are presented as being pivotal to the development of a movement. Yet in authoritarian states, such organizations are perceived as challenging the redline of the state. Hence, the establishment of networked organizations of homeowner activists in urban China and their proliferation to inland cities signifies a changing state-society interaction. This paper attempts to trace the development of homeowner networked organizations using data from in-depth interviews with homeowner activists as well as information collected from the networked organizations. This paper attempts to trace the development of cross-neighborhood networked organizations of homeowners in urban China against the conceptual backcloth of social movement networks and examines the recent development of such networks within the context of the tight social control of the authoritarian regime. This paper helps to shed light on the process by which seemingly neutral, mundane, and isolated small-scale actions involving everyday issues in residential neighborhoods are able to create networked organizations which may have the potential to orchestrate social movement mobilization.Additional informationAuthor informationNgai Ming YipNgai Ming Yip is professor of housing and urban studies in the Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong. His research covers homeowner activism, neighborhood governance, mobilities and housing policy and management. His recent publications include two edited volumes, Contested City and Urban Activism (2018), published by Palgrave Macmillan and co-edited with Miguel Martinez and Xiaoyi Sun and Neighborhood Governance in Urban China (2014), published by Edward Elgar.FundingThis work was supported by the City University of Hong Kong [Project #7004798].AcknowledgmentsThis is to acknowledge the financial support of the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong (project CityU#150908) and the internal research funding of the City University of Hong Kong (project #7004798). Special thanks has to be given to Yang Zheng, who has shared with me his recent information of network organizations, as well as Prof. Youhong Chen of Remin University, who helped to organize the conference of homeowner network organizations in 2015. The usual disclaimer applies.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.