Social Conflicts And Anti-movers' Spread In Land Requisition And House Demolition

In the process of rapid urbanization in China,the suburbs surrounding urban areas will be inevitably towards urbanization.During the process,the conflicts between local government and farmers due to land acquisition has long attracted widespread attention in the academic community.When scholars focused their attention on collective actions and petition incidents,the constant anti-movers' fighting are becoming a trend that could not be ignored in land expropriation conflicts,and it is becoming increasingly fierce.This phenomenon,which can be called the spread of anti-movers,constitutes the key to understanding and analyzing the logic of farmers' behavior and the relationship between farmers and the government in land requisition and demolition.The phenomenon of anti-movers in land requisition and demolition in town A in the suburbs of Tianjin city is a typical case of this phenomenon.This paper uses the process-event analysis method to explain why there are more and more anti-movers in the ten years of demolition and relocation in town A from the perspective of social conflict theory.Taking into account the causes of conflict,development process,and strategies,the paper elaborates on the starting point of conflict and the form of conflict and the coping strategies of the village committee.As the other party to the conflict,the village committee,under the background of national governance transformation,material resources and authoritative resources are greatly weakened,and its coping strategies are represented by three countermeasures:eliminating evil by evil,collateral and spending money to buy peace.In the conflict between the land requisition and demolition,the peasants who strived for benefits as the starting point of the conflict were affected by the original anti-movers' conflict and became many new anti-movers,forming anti-movers' conflicts as the main form of conflict.The dissertation finds that the anti-movers' fighting was purely due to fiscal requirement at the very beginning,and then the reason evolved into fiscal requirement and emotional requirement afterwards.The key influencing factors are the commercialization of local governance measures.As far as the anti-movers of land requisition and demolition is concerned,it is often "righteous" to express their interests and appeals.They will habitually think that rural authority is obliged to be responsible for their survival and life,so their appeal is justified.Through analyzing the conflict practice and discourse behind the nail house conflict behavior and other farmers'comments,the village committee's strategy of "purchasing peace" to eradicate the immediate conflicts has increased the sense of being exploited by other farmers and formed The hostility to the rural committee and even the local government.This article reveals that the fundamental reason for the spread of anti-movers is the conflict between the modernity and the tradition about the logic of action and the meaning of the action.Peasants who are constantly undergoing modernization still have traditional fragmentation of their interests in their lives.This is a concentrated reflection of the rural morality that nail households exaggerated when they talked about their behavior.The conflict between the two logics is eroding the authority of the country and may inadvertently emerge in any subsequent national crisis.