Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the
profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance …

Given the rapid diversification and mutation of public space and public life across the globe,
this article theorises epistemologies of publicness that move the research agenda beyond …

The extant literature on urban China is preoccupied by concerns over the production and
usage/consumption of urban space in relation to the dualistic state–market or state–society …

The region of southern Mesopotamia, in modern southern Iraq, was home to perhaps the
world's oldest cities and complex societies. Such cities and towns developed closely to …

China is undergoing an urban revolution. In 2011 more than half of the total population
resided in cities and towns for the first time in history. Over the last two decades urban China …

The article presents data from a 2013–2019 ethnography of Zhuang language policy to
support an analysis of implications for language policy research and scholarship of findings …

This paper presents one of the first theoretical interventions that apply a perspective of
everyday urbanism to the research of (internal) migrants in reform-era urban China …

Temporary migrant workers have long been perceived as outsiders in host societies, despite
these societies being the usual environment in which migrants perform everydayness. This …

In contemporary China, public spaces are often sites for group leisure activities. In the last
ten years, the most notable group leisure activity is Guangchangwu (广场舞) which …

The constant interplay between top‐down authority and bottom‐up agency in the production
of urban space has invigorated much scholarly debate in urban studies. China, with its …