STUDY ON OVERLAP OF SPACES AND ITS CORRESPONDING INSTITUTIONAL PATTERNS IN POLITICS OF SCALE:A CASE STUDY OF SHENZHEN-SHANWEI SPECIAL COOPERATION ZONE

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2017, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (5) : 56-62. DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2017.05.008

STUDY ON OVERLAP OF SPACES AND ITS CORRESPONDING INSTITUTIONAL PATTERNS IN POLITICS OF SCALE:A CASE STUDY OF SHENZHEN-SHANWEI SPECIAL COOPERATION ZONE

MA Xue-guang, LI Lu-qi

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Based on the case study of Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone and the analytical framework of spaces of dependence and spaces of engagement developed by Cox, this paper aims to analyze the politics of scale that unfolds under common interests instead of conflicting interests of various actors involved in the process. In the case of Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone, each major actor has its own spaces of dependence and spaces of engagement that exist at different scales. By constructing a continuous space of institutions on the separated physical spaces, the Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone becomes a new and continuous space of dependence of Shenzhen, which is embodied in the preferential policies given by government of Shenzhen and enjoyed by businesses in Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone. For the government of Shanwei City, part of space of dependence, i.e. the territory of Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone, is converted into a space of engagement in order to promote economic development of the city by fostering new growth pole. And for government of Guangdong Province, ShenzhenShanwei Special Cooperation Zone serves as a space of engagement whose objective is to fix the problem of uneven development within the territory of Guangdong Province, i.e. the space of dependence of the government, by the exploration of effective and replicable institutional patterns. Since one actor usually has multiple spaces of dependence and spaces of engagement, and several actors may share a common space of dependence or engagement, these spaces of various actors could consequently overlap at different scales, especially at the scale and space of Shenzhen-Shanwei Special Cooperation Zone.

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politics of scale / spaces of dependence / spaces of engagement / overlap of spaces / ShenzhenShanwei Special Cooperation Zone

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MA Xue-guang, LI Lu-qi. STUDY ON OVERLAP OF SPACES AND ITS CORRESPONDING INSTITUTIONAL PATTERNS IN POLITICS OF SCALE:A CASE STUDY OF SHENZHEN-SHANWEI SPECIAL COOPERATION ZONE[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2017, 32(5): 56-62 https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2017.05.008

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