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主题：Anxious Homes: Inflexible Demand and China’s  Housing Market

时间：2024年11月29日（周五）10:00-12:00

地点：浙江大学紫金港西区成均苑8幢1017

摘要：This research analyzes the ideas and practices surrounding “刚需/inflexible demand,” a vernacular concept that Chinese people draw on to refer to—and construct—a need for homeownership as an indispensable criterion for fulfilling dreams of urban citizenship. During twenty months of fieldwork in a low-end housing market at Nanjing’s urban periphery from 2013 to 2015, I conducted semi-structured interviews and participant-observation with a group of real estate brokers who specialized in selling properties to low-income families who are presumed to have an “inflexible demand” for a first home. The research, recasting “刚需/inflexible demand” as an ethnographic and analytical term, argues that China’s urban accumulation has been motivated by the formation of homeownership ideologies through which diverse actors—buyers, brokers, developers, and the government—negotiated and contested the meaning of homeownership in the country’s state capitalist market of housing. These ideologies expose homeownership as an affective, economic, and political entitlement constructed in relation to the regime of urban accumulation, the moral economy of housing, and the building of legitimacy for the developmental state. 

主讲人：王梦琪，昆山杜克大学助理教授

Mengqi Wang is a cultural anthropologist based at Duke Kunshan University. Her primary research interests include economic anthropology, urban anthropology, political economy, the social studies of the market, housing, urban studies, and China. Her works have appeared on Urban Studies, the Journal of Cultural Economy, Positions: Asia Critique, and Hau: the Journal of Ethnographic Methods. Her book project explores the cultural politics of home-buying in a low-end housing market at east Nanjing's urban fringe.

评议人：周沐君，浙江大学社会学系长聘副教授

布朗大学博士，曾任加州大学伯克利分校中国研究中心博士后研究员。其研究领域为政治社会学、发展社会学、社会运动、文化社会学、社会理论、民族志方法等。相关研究论文发表在Social Science History, POLITICS & SOCIETY, 《社会发展研究》等刊物。

主持人：戴良灏，浙江大学社会学系百人计划研究员

哥廷根大学社会学博士，研究领域包括科学社会学，科学与技术研究（STS），社会网理论，认知图等。当下重点关注科学知识生产过程中的跨学科合作问题和学术劳动问题。相关研究论文和报告发表在Nature，Natureindex，ACM-KDD，EASST Review，Social Network Analysis: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Case Studies等刊著上。