{"product_id":"anxious-homes-9781501786815","title":"Anxious Homes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnxious Homes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a study of the power that shapes the forms of the homes Chinese citizens strive for and the possible paths they may take to realize their home ownership dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e Mengqi Wang discusses how the Chinese real estate industry functions in the everyday, welding aspirational middle-class families, especially migrant families, to the property-owning class and the urban growth machine. Urban housing was a socialist benefit in China until the market reforms and privatization in the 1990s. Today, most Chinese citizens consider homeownership a necessity rather than an economic privilege. Wang analyzes the making of homeownership ideologies through \"inflexible demand\" (\u003ci\u003egangxu\u003c\/i\u003e) – a concept that real estate brokers, developers, homebuyers, and the government in China use to craft homeownership as indispensable for fulfilling dreams of urban citizenship. The ethnography shows that \u003ci\u003egangxu\u003c\/i\u003e helps to articulate diverse attempts to accumulate value through housing at China's urbanizing city periphery, while giving shape to a housing-based, postsocialist right to the city. \u003ci\u003eAnxious Homes\u003c\/i\u003e argues that homeownership does not necessarily engender independence but suggests further inclusion of citizens within the dominant regime of accumulation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mengqi Wang","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56481215709526,"sku":"9781501786815","price":29.26,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781501786815.jpg?v=1793872804","url":"https:\/\/www.englishbook.fi\/products\/anxious-homes-9781501786815","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}