上海社会科学院
尚社讲坛第二讲
时间：7月4日周一9：30—11：00
地点：上海社科国际创新基地五楼第二会议室
主讲人： 陈 向 明 教授
现任美国三一学院城市与全球研究中心主任、Paul E. Raether 社会学与国际研究讲座教授、复旦大学客座教授以及上海社会科学院兼职教授，主要研究领域为城市与社区研究、全球化，亚洲尤其是中国的城市问题。
Xiangming Chen is the Dean and Director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology at Trinity College, Connecticut, and a distinguished guest professor at Fudan University, Shanghai. He has published extensively on urbanization and globalization with a focus on China and Asia. His most recent book is Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai (with Sharon Zukin and Philip Kasinitz, Routledge, 2015), with a Chinese edition to be published by Tongji University Press in August 2016. He is also a Senior Contributor for the “China and the World” series at The European Financial Review.
讲坛主题及内容介绍
Rethinking Border Cities:
In-Between Spaces, Unequal Actors, and Stretched Mobility Across
the China-Southeast Asia Borderland
We are living in a world where cities have become more diverse and fluid than ever before. A small number of cities including New York and Shanghai exert and project powerful global influences due to their size, geographic location, and highly developed and diverse economic strength. At the same time, many small cities have gained stature through accelerated growth and new global connections despite their less advantaged locations, as in frontier regions. As small border cities have become more important and even central to understanding such critical urban topics as mobility despite their small size and peripheral location, they deserve our renewed attention.
In this lecture, I will examine how the nation-state, the city, and the citizen interact to de-border and re-border the once insolated border cities into a new kind of in-between spaces. Looking at these three actors across the in-between spaces of China, Myanmar and Laos, I argue that the Chinese state, and by extension, its border cities exert the strongest impact on mobility across the China-Southeast Asia borderland. Within this China-dominated space, however, the other actors at the national and local level play generally lessor but varied roles. This mix of actors with uneven power produces mobility that not only strengthens cross-border cooperation but also leads to challenges in governance.
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