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CSC International Research Webinar: Infrastructural urbanism in China

CSC International Research Webinar Series Infrastructural urbanism in China : Toward a materialist reframing of urbanization This paper explores the concept of infrastructural urbanism as an analytic for interpreting the geographies of urbanization in contemporary China. It begins with the premise that infrastructure is more than the material ‘foundation’ or substrate underlying Chinese urbanization. It is also fundamental to the state’s powers of territorial administration. That is, urbanization might be considered as a product of infrastructure power in China, driven by changes to the territorial state’s administrative divisions but shaped by large-scale infrastructures that are built in anticipation of an eventual city. The resulting landscapes – large swaths of rural land overlaid with grids of roads, highways, high-speed rail lines, and digital networks – might be more usefully thought of as ‘infrastructure spaces’ than cities. Such spaces have become to define a new landscape of urban development that bears little resemblance to the cities commonly thought to emerge from urbanization processes. Exploring the case-study of Gui’an New Area, the paper argues that infrastructural urbanism does not merely describe a particular spatial pattern of urban development in China, but more importantly provides a materialist framework that is increasingly relevant for understanding patterns of urbanization not just in China but throughout the Global South as well. About the speakers Tim Oakes is Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado Boulder. Currently he is a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Oslo’s Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages. Between 2012 and 2023 he served as Faculty Director of the Colorado Center for Asian Studies, and between 2018 and 2023 he was Project Director for China Made, an international research collective exploring China’s infrastructure-driven model of development. His research concerns rural and urban development, cultural governance, and changing spaces of leisure and consumption in China. Yingjie Guo (Moderator) is Professor in Chinese Studies. He received his BA and MA from Shanghai International Studies University and PhD from the University of Tasmania. Before joining the University of Sydney in 2014, he had taught at Shanghai International Studies University, the University of Tasmania, the University of New England, and the University of Technology, Sydney. His research focuses on cultural nationalism in contemporary China, Chinese cultural identities, and the discourse of class in the post-Mao era.