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Accepted Paper:
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Importing export zones: processes and impacts of replicating a Chinese model of urbanization in rural south India
Charlotte Goodburn
(King's College London)
Jan Knoerich
(King's College London)
Paper short abstract:
We draw on fieldwork from one Indian SEZ, directly modelled on a Chinese zone, to explore the multiple ways in which China's SEZ "model" is "translated" into and interacts with local Indian contexts, producing new forms of rural-urban development for both local communities and migrant workers.
Paper long abstract:
This paper examines the development and impacts of an anonymized south Indian "industrial city", directly modelled on a Chinese counterpart. The privately-operated city was founded in the 2000s as a key example of India's new-style Special Economic Zones (SEZs). These represent a national shift, motivated by the success of China's SEZs, from older enclave-style urban "export processing zones" to new integrated townships in (former) rural areas. Drawing on fieldwork in the city in 2018, the paper explores how the Chinese SEZ "model" interacts with specific local contexts to produce new forms of rural-urban development. Specifically, it compares three issues seen in both Chinese and Indian cases: first, the city's spatial planning, and the consequences for local agriculture; second, gendered hiring practices of firms in the city, and the implications for rural-urban migration; third, the incorporation of local rural villages into the city, and the long-term prospects for their development. These three aspects represent different mechanisms through which the Chinese "model" is translated into the South Asian context, by different actors, with different outcomes. In line with recent policy mobilities scholarship, the paper argues that "models" cannot be straightforwardly replicated, and calls for more attention to the outcomes of attempted replication, in order to understand the development implications arising from selective, complex, multi-level adaptation of a Chinese "model" and its interaction with local contexts. It highlights important implications, not only for South Asia but also for other countries modelling their SEZ development strategy on China.
E-paper: this Paper will not be presented, but read in advance and discussed
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Accepted Paper:
Charlotte Goodburn (King's College London) Jan Knoerich (King's College London)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
This paper examines the development and impacts of an anonymized south Indian "industrial city", directly modelled on a Chinese counterpart. The privately-operated city was founded in the 2000s as a key example of India's new-style Special Economic Zones (SEZs). These represent a national shift, motivated by the success of China's SEZs, from older enclave-style urban "export processing zones" to new integrated townships in (former) rural areas. Drawing on fieldwork in the city in 2018, the paper explores how the Chinese SEZ "model" interacts with specific local contexts to produce new forms of rural-urban development. Specifically, it compares three issues seen in both Chinese and Indian cases: first, the city's spatial planning, and the consequences for local agriculture; second, gendered hiring practices of firms in the city, and the implications for rural-urban migration; third, the incorporation of local rural villages into the city, and the long-term prospects for their development. These three aspects represent different mechanisms through which the Chinese "model" is translated into the South Asian context, by different actors, with different outcomes. In line with recent policy mobilities scholarship, the paper argues that "models" cannot be straightforwardly replicated, and calls for more attention to the outcomes of attempted replication, in order to understand the development implications arising from selective, complex, multi-level adaptation of a Chinese "model" and its interaction with local contexts. It highlights important implications, not only for South Asia but also for other countries modelling their SEZ development strategy on China.
E-paper: this Paper will not be presented, but read in advance and discussed
Chinese-style Economic Zones, Policy Mobilities, and the Implications for Urbanising Futures
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