Representing the imagined city : place and the politics of difference during Guangzhou's 2010 language conflict

Auteur(s) et Affiliation(s)

QIAN, J.

Center for Cultural Industry and Cultural, Geography, South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, Chine

QIAN, L.

School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, Chine

ZHU, H.

Center for Cultural Industry and Cultural, Geography, South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou, Chine

Description :
Based on a social and political campaign against state-led hegemonic language standardisation, the 2010 language conflict in Guangzhou was a socially and culturally constructed process in which the local's imagination and representation of place and identity were reproduced within a local geometry of social relations involving the state language policy, the local community and the city's migrant population. The paper acknowledges that some place-bounded politics may demonstrate a counter-hegemonic dimension and are therefore not inherently regressive.

Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Geoforum, issn : 0016-7185, 2012, vol. 43, n°. 5, p. 905-915, nombre de pages : 11, Références bibliographiques : 1 p.

Date :
2012

Editeur :
Pays édition : Royaume-Uni, New York, NY ; Oxford, Pergamon Press

Langue :
Anglais