Events
We are organising a series of events including workshops, seminars and conferences to gather thoughts, inspire research and disseminate outputs.
The invited talk about ‘Governing China’s urban development: State entrepreneurialism’, Wuhan, China. 16/04/2024.
Prof. Fulong Wu was invited by Prof. Zhigang Li from Wuhan University, China to give a talk about ‘Governing China’s urban development: State entrepreneurialism’. The talk was held at School of Urban Design, Wuhan University on 16 April 2024.
During the talk, Prof. Wu depicted an overall picture of China’s urban governance and introduced the concept of ‘state entrepreneurialism’ that captures the salient feature of Chinese urban governance. Related to this concept, Prof. Wu discussed relevant theoretical literature on neoliberalism, post-politics, and mega-urban projects, illustrating a new way of governing urban development in contemporary and late capitalism. He also introduced the debate over neoliberal governance and its recent shift under austerity urbanism and financialised governance. Further to this temporal variation, he explained geographical variegation by reviewing East Asia’s developmental state and the ‘property state’. This talk expanded the scope of the varieties of urban entrepreneurialism, especially the recent municipal statecraft and provided a historical account of changing governance in China and recent research on state entrepreneurialism. It illustrated state entrepreneurialism with examples of China’s large-scale development projects — new towns in the metropolitan peripheral areas. It discussed these examples with the notion of neoliberal suburbanism, and critically reflected on the state’s role in urban and regional governance.
For more information about this invited talk, please click here.
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