Studying ‘Democratic’ Governance in Contemporary China: looking at the village is not enough

2014 ◽  
pp. 42-47
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
The Village

The Project ‘Activating the Village Courts’

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Berger
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
State Courts ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Local Justice ◽  
The World ◽  
International Donor ◽  
Donor Agencies ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Eu

International donor agencies have only recently started again to turn towards non-state courts as potential sites for the promotion of human rights and the rule of law. This chapter analyses this turn by focusing on one project aimed at activating village courts in Bangladesh. The project is the largest donor-sponsored intervention in non-state justice systems anywhere in the world today. The chapter reconstructs the genesis of the project. It thereby not only reveals strong parallels between the contemporary project and its colonial predecessor but also shows how the contemporary project with the village courts emerged in recursive processes of translation between international bureaucrats and Bangladeshi legal experts. The chapter concludes with an analysis of the different ways in which the EU, UNDP, and local NGOs make sense of the village courts as institutions of the rule of law, democratic governance, and local justice.

The urbanisation of rural migrants and the making of urban villages in contemporary China

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 1525-1540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Production ◽  
Informal Markets ◽  
Contemporary China ◽  
Service Market ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
Informal Housing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Village ◽  
The Village ◽  
Urban Villages

In the past decades, urban villages proliferate in major cities of China. These marginalised places not only are home to many local villagers, but also host millions of rural migrants. This paper provides an ethnographic account of the spatial and social production of Chinese urban villages. It discusses urban village residents’ detailed tactics in developing/participating in the informal housing market, service market and labour market. By so doing, it emphasises people’s agency in making their own living spaces and further challenges the marginalisation paradigm that either victimises or disparages urban village residents. It shows peasants, who are commonly assumed to be the antithesis of modernisation and urbanisation, are major actors and urbanise their living spaces. This paper also elaborates on the types of governing strategies at the village and municipal levels. It points out that the contradictions and loopholes in state power have left space for the formation of informal markets and contribute to the making of urban villages in contemporary China.

Analisis Daya Dukung Tanah Dan Bahan Pondasi Tiang Pancang Pada Pembangunan Jembatan Kab. Jombang

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Ruslan Hidayat ◽  
Saiful Arfaah
Keyword(s):  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Pile Foundation ◽  
Heavy Traffic ◽  
Traffic Volume ◽  
Material Strength ◽  
Cone Penetrometer ◽  
The Village

One of the most important factors in the structure of the pile foundation in the construction of the bridge is the carrying capacity of the soil so as not to collapse. Construction of a bridge in the village of Klitik in Jombang Regency to be built due to heavy traffic volume. The foundation plan to be used is a pile foundation with a diameter of 50 cm, the problem is what is the value of carrying capacity of soil and material. The equipment used is the Dutch Cone Penetrometer with a capacity of 2.50 tons with an Adhesion Jacket Cone. The detailed specifications of this sondir are as follows: Area conus 10 cm², piston area 10 cm², coat area 100 cm², as for the results obtained The carrying capacity of the soil is 60.00 tons for a diameter of 30 cm, 81,667 tons for a diameter of 35 cm, 106,667 tons for a diameter of 40 cm, 150,000 tons for a diameter of 50 cm for material strength of 54,00 tons for a diameter of 30 cm, 73,500 tons for a diameter of 35 cm, 96,00 tons for a diameter of 40 cm, 166,666 tons for a diameter of 50 cm

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