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Bargaining demolition in China: A practice of distrust

Content Provider	SAGE Publishing
Author	Ho, Cheuk Yuet
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This paper presents multivocal exchanges between evictees and frontline demolition personnel regarding urban housing demolition in China. I discovered that evictees and evictors alike stick to the official rules but contest vigorously the interpretation, each in accordance with their tacit understanding of the norm of practising demolition and particular tactics of bending the rules of compensation. This paper provides a detailed, rarely available ethnographic record of the encounters between evictees and evictors, and contributes to the study of how agents strategise and interact within a habitus of micro-power relationships. It is concluded that the agency of various players is simultaneously reproducing the social structure but paradoxically working to sabotage the very structure within which they practice.
Related Links	https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0308275X13501902?download=true
Starting Page	412
Ending Page	428
Page Count	17
ISSN	0308275X
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	33
Journal	Critique of Anthropology (COA)
e-ISSN	14603721
DOI	10.1177/0308275X13501902
Language	English
Publisher	Sage Publications UK
Publisher Date	2013-11-27
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	© The Author(s) 2013
Subject Keyword	evictees structure Urban housing demolition practice power agency
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Arts and Humanities Anthropology

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