Commons and the Right to the City in Contemporary China

  • Inverardi-Ferri C
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This short essay tells the story of Dongxiaokou, an urban village in the northern outskirt of Beijing, infamously known in the press as the ‘waste village’ ( feipincun). Until urban redevelopment projects accelerated its demolition in recent years, this informal settlement had been one of the biggest in the metropolis. Situated between the fifth and sixth ring road, around ten kilometres from the city centre, it hosted a massive population of migrant workers, who had made this place their home and used it as a base to enter the Chinese capital’s labour market. The story of Dongxiaokou provides interesting insights into

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Inverardi-Ferri, C. (2018). Commons and the Right to the City in Contemporary China. In Made in China Yearbook 2017: Gilded Age. ANU Press. https://doi.org/10.22459/mic.04.2018.27

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