Outputs (2)

Who Makes the City? Beijing’s Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation (2022)
Journal Article
Hayward, J., & Jakimów, M. (2022). Who Makes the City? Beijing’s Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation. positions: asia critique, 30(3), 455-477. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-9723672

Inside Beijing are hundreds of urban villages. Originally farming villages, now engulfed by urban expansion, they persist due to China's segregated urban-rural property system. Inhabitants are often still classed as 'peasants', despite being inside t... Read More about Who Makes the City? Beijing’s Urban Villages as Sites of Ideological Contestation.

Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’ (2022)
Journal Article
Jakimów, M. (2022). Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’. Citizenship Studies, 26(4-5), 505-511. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2022.2091232

The acts of citizenship framework emerged as an important innovation to the previous status- and practice-focused understanding of citizenship with a landmark edited volume Acts of Citizenship (2008). While the theorisation of citizenship through act... Read More about Activist citizenship in non-Western and non-democratic contexts: how to define ‘acts of citizenship’.