The Resource Boom in China’s Resource-Rich Provinces

Asian Survey ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-300
Author(s):  
Hong Yu ◽  
Yongnian Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Resource Curse ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
The State ◽  
Resource Exploitation ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Chinese Characteristics

State-owned enterprises’ unchecked resource exploitation and the Chinese state’s GDP-dominated mentality have played pivotal roles in causing and perpetuating social and environmental problems in the country’s resource-rich provinces. The authors propose a “resource curse theory with Chinese characteristics” to analyze the role of the state and the impacts of state-owned enterprises.

scholarly journals Beyond Celebrity Politics: Celebrity as Governmentality in China

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402094186
Author(s):  
Zhongxuan Lin ◽  
Yupei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Political Dimension ◽  
Chinese Context ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
History Of ◽  
Celebrity Politics

This article investigates the crucial political dimension of celebrity. Specifically, it examines celebrities’ great potential for governmentality in the Chinese context by tracing the history of celebrities in Confucian, Maoist, and post-Maoist governmentalities. It concludes that this type of governmentality, namely, celebrity as governmentality, displays uniquely Chinese characteristics in that it is a set of knowledge, discourses, and techniques used primarily by those who govern. It also highlights the central role of the state as the concrete terrain for the application of this mode of governmentality throughout Chinese history. Finally, it notes the always evolving nature of governmentality, as observed in the phenomena of governing from afar and resistance from below. These findings help us rethink the contingent and diversified nature of the phenomena of celebrity and governmentality and challenge Western norms and political theories that covertly employ them.

2. Understanding Environmental Problems

2019 ◽  
pp. 22-57
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fisher ◽  
Bettina Lange ◽  
Eloise Scotford
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Environmental Values ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Limits Of Knowledge ◽  
The Subject

This chapter is an introduction to environmental problems specifically written for those studying environmental law. Understanding environmental problems is not just of passing academic interest, but is, rather, essential for understanding environmental law. A good environmental lawyer has a sophisticated appreciation of environmental problems and understands in particular how their nature impacts on environmental law and practice. The extracts in the chapter are thus not just optional background reading but are essential for understanding the subject. This chapter covers the collective nature of environmental problems, the role and limits of knowledge in identifying and addressing environmental problems, the nature of environmental values and the important but contentious role of the state in environmental decision-making.

Imagining the mineral nation: contested nation-building in Mongolia

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara L. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Resource Curse ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
The State ◽  
Dutch Disease ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Copper Gold ◽  
Investment Agreement ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Public Concerns

The development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine, located in Mongolia's South Gobi province, promises to rebuild the nation after two decades of economic and social instabilities following the 1990 revolution. While the company promotes the mine as the teleological solution to Mongolia's development, the state and public remain ambivalent, as concerns about a resource curse and Dutch Disease loom. In this paper, I argue that Oyu Tolgoi remains contested due to tensions between corporate and state actors as well as public concerns about the potential negative political, economic, and environmental effects of mining. Debates over the Oyu Tolgoi investment agreement negotiations and the immediate repercussions of the agreement signing reveal how the dual teleologies of building mineral nations crystallize in the neologism “Mine-golia.” This paper begins to fill a gap in the literature on mineral nations which privileges the role of the state, leaving how corporations engage in nation-building underexamined.

Economic and Legal Support for Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Russia

2003 ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
I. Dezhina ◽  
I. Leonov
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
The State ◽  
Commercial Application ◽  
The West ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Legal Context

The article is devoted to the analysis of the changes in economic and legal context for commercial application of intellectual property created under federal budgetary financing. Special attention is given to the role of the state and to comparison of key elements of mechanisms for commercial application of intellectual property that are currently under implementation in Russia and in the West. A number of practical suggestions are presented aimed at improving government stimuli to commercialization of intellectual property created at budgetary expense.

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