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My forthcoming Book
My forthcoming Book
Unhomely life, different from houselessness, refers to a seesawing condition between the loss of home feelings and the search for home. This unhomely condition is prevalent in post-Mao China. The faster that Chinese society becomes modernized, the less individuals feel at home, and the more they yearn for a sense of home. This is the central paradox that I analyze to explore how mobile individuals—lifestyle migrants and retreat tourists from China’s big cities, displaced natives, and rural migrants—handle the loss of home and experience a homely way of life. These four categories of mobile people converge in Lijiang Old Town, a World Heritage Site located in Yunnan province. Blending a robust theoretical framework of unhomely life with empirical data collected from 2002 to 2020, Unhomely Life develop a journey-based analysis of ‘home’ under constant (re)making, and generates vital clues to understanding the continuity and disruption in post-Mao China.
Security, economy, and the touristification of borders
Security, economy, and the touristification of borders
Due to large "flows of cross-border tourists and their increasing geopolitical and geoeconomic influence, borders have become increasingly touristified. Entailing at least three impulses— commodification, desecuritization, and differentiation, the touristification of borders develops a nuanced understanding of borderscapes and bordering practices. Borders obtain new mean- ings and functions from a touristic perspective. Tourism as an epistemic frame means that it is not merely a set of economic activities related to the production and consumption of experi- ences, but also constitutes a perspective through which to explore issues concerning borders as a key space of geoeconomic and geopolitical interactions. Thus, the touristi!cation of borders brings tourism scholars into productive conversations with scholars in other critical studies who investigate the interplay of mobility and power.
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BOOK
Su, Xiaobo and Teo, Peggy (2009) The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China: A View from Lijiang. London and New York: Routledge. ix+208 pp.
Cai, Xiaomei and Su, Xiaobo (2020) Introduction to New Cultural Geography Literature (in Chinese) (新文化地理学文献导读). Beijing: China Social Science Press (北京：中国社会科学出版社)
Su, Xiaobo (2024) Unhomely Life: Modernity, Mobilities, and the Making of Home in China (RGB-IBG Book Series). London: Wiley.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES IN ENGLISH
1. Su, Xiaobo (2024) Economy, Security, and the Touristification of Borders. Annals of Tourism Research.
2. Su, Xiaobo; Lim, Kean Fan (2024) Urban state venturism: On state-led venture capital investments in the urban process of capital accumulation. Dialogues in Human Geography, https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231220724
3. Liu, Peilin; Yang, Liguo; Su, Xiaobo (2023) Tourism, Feelings, and the Consumption of Heritage, Tourism Geographies, 25(2): 1483-1503. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2023.2235573
4. Lim, Kean Fan; Su, Xiaobo (2023) Making markets ‘decisive’: A firm-level evaluation of state-led development in the China-Myanmar border region. Journal of Economic Geography, 23(2): 397-418, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbac022
5. Li, Cansong; Su, Xiaobo (2022) Cross-border division of labor and China’s border control upon Myanmar migrants, Environment and Planning C, 40(8): 1717-1744, https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544221106015
6. Su, Xiaobo; Lim, Kean Fan (2023) Capital accumulation, territoriality, and the reproduction of state sovereignty in China: Is this "new" state capitalism? Environment and Planning A, 55(3): 697-715, https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221093643
7. Su, Xiaobo; Miao, Yi (2022) Border Control and the Territorial Politics of Policy Experimentation in Chinese Border Cities, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 46(4): 522-541 https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13079
8. Yu, Yi; Su, Xiaobo (2023) Governing through the NGO—community eldercare in Beijing and Shanghai, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 63(2): 199-219, DOI: 10.1080/15387216.2021.1990101
9. Su, Xiaobo (2022) Unpacking Administrative Rank: Interurban Competition and the Remaking of Local State Space in China, Political Geography, 92: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102518
10. Lim, Kean Fan; Su, Xiaobo (2021) Cross-border market building for narcotics control: A Polanyian analysis of the China-Myanmar border region, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46(4): 834-849 https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12447
11. Su, Xiaobo; Li, Cansong (2021) Bordering Dynamics and the Geopolitics of Cross-border Tourism Between China and Myanmar, Political Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102372
12. Cai, Xiaomei and Su, Xiaobo (2021) Dwelling-in-Traveling: Western Expats and the Making of Temporary Home in Guangzhou, China, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 47(12): 2815-2823. doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1739392
13. Su, Xiaobo (2022) Smuggling and the Exercise of Effective Sovereignty at the China-Myanmar Border, Review of International Political Economy, 29(4): 1135-1158, https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1859400
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