Neo-socialist property rights : the predicament of housing ownership in China /
Neo-Socialist Property Rights studies urban dwellers' desire for housing ownership and how their acquiring and defending of property rights reshape the state-property-family relationality in neo-socialist China. This book links property rights practice to the broader human rights discourse as b...
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| Language: | English |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
2015
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : from vice to the virtue of owning private property
- Exit, or evict : re-grounding rights in need
- Bargaining demolition : when needs and desires meet
- Investing citizens : embracing desires and risks
- Affective ownership : situating rights in desires
- The property question : meanings and values
- The real life of rights : a detour from needs and desires to interests
- Final thoughts : the ambivalence of rights afterword : locating and mislocating rights in neo-socialist China.
