| Nowadays, China is in the great historical process of urbanization, this is an importantcontent and goal that socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics strived for. Sincereform and opening up, China’s urbanization is accelerating. According to statistics, ourcountry’s urbanization rate is about30%by the mid-90s of last century, and maybe continueto advance at an annual rate of one percent. Especially in the21st century, the focus of wholesocial life gradually shifts to a new space, i.e. city. It is estimated that the rate of China’surbanization will up to70%in the next20-30years. Referring to the world city’sdevelopmental trend, it is a stage that the level of urbanization upgrades rapidly between therate30%and70%, and a period that many social problems repeatedly occur. The emergenceand development of city is an inevitable result of spatial production status’ development ofhuman society, the essence of spatial production is spatial reconstruction of physical materialand resetting of social structure and lifestyle and so on, this process is deeply affected bypolitics. How to crack the various problems encountered in the urbanization in China hasbecome a common concern to the national government and theoretical researchers. Spatialtheory and spatial politics theory are important parts of Marxist theory, Marxist classicalwriters remained many treatises. Postmodern spatial politics theory elaborates moresystematically the ideologies of spatial production and spatial politics and spatial justice afterreflecting on the positive and negative effects of urbanization and modern city’s development.Hence, studying the theory not only has important reference meaning to socialist urbanizationwith Chinese characteristics, but also can figure out knowledge of Marxist spatial theory,enrich and advance it.This thesis insists the basic position of historical materialism, employs mainly textinterpretation and inductive analysis and combining theory and practice, makes acomprehensive and systemic carding for postmodern spatial politics theory in order to providepractical references for urbanization process of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Thethesis is divided into four parts in addition to introduction and epilogue.In part one of the thesis, there is mainly a carding on social and historical conditions produced and ideological origins and developmental process of postmodern spatial politicstheory. The emergence of postmodern spatial politics theory is a concentrated reflection onideology of internal contradictions within contemporary capitalist society, it referencedcritically to western traditional and modern spatial concept and theory.Part two is the emphasis of whole thesis, there is an analysis and generalization on maincontents and basic characteristics of postmodern spatial politics theory through textinterpretation. First of all, the main contents are generalized in more details which arephilosophical basic i.e. social space concept, important domain i.e. spatial power criticism,value orientation i.e. spatial doctrine, realization way i.e. spatial revolution; afterwards, thebasic characteristics are further analyzed which are distinctive postmodern characteristics andresearch paradigm of microcosmic politics and decentralization of political power andelimination of rationalistic space.In part three, there is an appraisal on postmodern spatial politics theory through basicprinciples of historical materialism. It is just a continuum of critical road opened up byMarxist dialectics that postmodern spatial politics theory is committed to capital and moderncriticism from spatial perspective, it meets the ultimate aim of Marxist political theory to seeka new human liberation agenda, it is consistent with the research methods of historicalmaterialism to pay attention to analysis of mode of production and social relations and so on,they are theoretical contributions of the thesis; the deficiencies are tendency to relativism,intensive utopianism, exaggeration on foundation and meaning of space in social history.Part four is the last one, theory and practice are combined closely in it, to reveal theinspirations of studying postmodern spatial politics theory on the current practice ofurbanization is the emphasis. There is a need to plan city’s public space reasonably, to valuespatial differences of urban and rural society, to reflect upon city’s spatial production andgovernance mechanisms in socialist urbanization with Chinese characteristics. |
