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我院买欣副教授、刘云刚教授在Annals of the American Association of Geographers发表最新学术成果

Dr. MAI Xin and Prof. LIU Yungang have published a paper in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, an international flagship journal in geography.

作者简介

买欣，华南师范大学地理科学学院副教授，香港大学城市规划与设计系（城市研究方向）博士，主要从事城乡经济韧性、人口流动与城镇化、城乡治理等研究，以第一或通讯作者发表SSCI、中文核心期刊论文十篇，主持国家及省部级科研项目三项。

刘云刚，华南师范大学地理科学学院院长，教授，博士生导师，研究领域涉及政治地理学、国际化城市与移民政策、中国城市化与城乡治理等，已发表中英文核心期刊论文120余篇，出版著作（含合著）12部。

近日，华南师范大学地理科学学院买欣副教授（第一作者）、刘云刚教授（通讯作者）、同济大学许月丽博士在美国地理学家协会会刊Annals of the American Association of Geographers发表题为"Cultivating an alternative subjectivity beyond neoliberalism: Community gardens in urban China"的研究论文。（全文链接：https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2187337）

该研究系统梳理了西方国家社区花园的理论争议，并对上海市两个具有代表性的社区花园展开深入调查，讨论了在中国城市更新背景下社区花园的产生、发展及其对城市公共空间治理的启示。研究表明，社会组织（而非当地政府或居民）在上海社区花园的建设发展和社区参与的话语构建中发挥了积极作用。组织者将社区花园建构为一种治理创新实验，探索并推进以群众动员和社会参与为特征、“以人为本”的渐进式城市微更新，并由此获得了地方政府对社区花园的认可和支持。本文认为，上海社区花园体现了社会组织作为一种新的主体参与城市治理的方式及其根本逻辑，既有别于由政府和企业主导、以追求经济增长为目标的企业主义治理模式，也与西方新自由主义背景下的花园实践有着显著不同。该研究深入讨论了中西方不同政治经济背景下社区花园所体现的治理内涵差异，以期促进学界对中国城市治理的多元理解与认识。

Annals of the American Association of Geographers是美国地理学会主办的旗舰刊物，创刊于1911年，是地理学国际顶级期刊。2022年影响因子为3.9 (Q1)，5年影响因子为4.7。

Abstract

In the literature, community gardens feature as contested spaces: they are radical spaces used by grassroots movements to claim the “right to the city,” organized garden projects attached to neoliberal strategies, or physical breeding grounds for neoliberal citizen-subjectivity. Long established in many Western contexts, community gardens were not evident in China until a group of scholar-activists in Shanghai initiated the practice in 2016. Drawing on two flagship community garden cases in that city, we investigate the emergence and development of community gardens and discuss the ways in which they instantiate neither a radical nor a neoliberal political vision. Our observations show that a nonprofit organization—rather than the local citizenry or municipal government—proactively advanced the production of community gardens and the discursive construction of community participation over time. The rationale underlying this practice arises from organizers’ framing of the community gardens as an “experiment of governance innovation” that dovetails with a broader reorientation of China’s urban renewal agenda from demolition and reconstruction toward a people-centered incremental urban regeneration characterized by mass mobilization and social participation. We argue, therefore, that the community garden phenomenon reifies an alternative subjectivity—one that emphasizes the increasing visibility of social organizations as a state “flanking mechanism” to achieve extraeconomic objectives in urban governance. We also advance a pluralist understanding of China’s urban governance beyond a growth-chasing logic to embrace the increasing complexity of the state ethos and societal instruments at play in and associated with this sphere.

Journal Information

The Annals of the American Association of Geographers is one of the world’s leading geography journals and is the flagship journal of the American Association of Geographers, in publication since 1911. Impact factor of the Annals is 3.9 in 2022 and 4.7 for the five-year IF.

文案编辑 | 买欣 刘云刚

初审 | 袁亚娟

复审 | 陶  伟

终审 | 刘云刚