Contesting Citizenship in Urban China

TL;DR: In this paper, the Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) focused on the political economy of cities, focusing on three topical areas of general anthropological interest and contemporary importance: (a) the transformation of urban economies in light of contemporary neoliberalism and how such changes affect the livelihoods of market vendors and less-affluent urban residents, (b) forms of ancient and contemporary city planning, the political and economic interests behind them, and their subsequent effect on diverse urban communities, and (c) attempts by political leaders and policymakers to control the movement of urban populations and the consequ

TL;DR: Lin et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the growth and spatiality of urbanism in a peri-urban region in southern China and pointed out that urbanism has not been limited to a set of clearly demarcated cities where urbanites cluster to create an urban way of life distinct from the rural population.

TL;DR: The concept of multiple deprivations as discussed by the authors was introduced as a framework for examining a broad array of social and economic disadvantages in the UK in the late 1960s and early 1970s.