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Between authoritarian governance and urban citizenship: Tree-felling protests in Hanoi

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  • John Gillespie

    (Monash University, Australia)

  • Quang Hung Nguyen

    (NH Quang and Associates, Vietnam)

Abstract

Little is known about how claims for urban citizenship in transitional states influence urban governance. Advancing the literature, this article draws on empirical research about a tree-felling dispute in Hanoi. It argues that social media are transforming how citizens project power over city officials. Interviews showed how a combination of street protests and criticism on social media disrupted state expectations about how citizens should behave. This opened political space that enabled citizens to voice their concerns. Although officials reacted emotionally to moral coercion, they refused to engage with deliberative claims for urban citizenship and the right to participate in governance. The article concludes that social media provide a space where urban citizenship can evolve, disseminate and eventually influence the state.

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  • John Gillespie & Quang Hung Nguyen, 2019. "Between authoritarian governance and urban citizenship: Tree-felling protests in Hanoi," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 56(5), pages 977-991, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:56:y:2019:i:5:p:977-991
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098018784865
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    Cited by:

    1. Turner, Sarah, 2020. "Informal motorbike taxi drivers and mobility injustice on Hanoi's streets. Negotiating the curve of a new narrative," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    2. Gray Brakke, 2023. "Ambivalent insurgencies: Citizenship, land politics and development in Hanoi and its periurban fringe," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 60(6), pages 1123-1138, May.
    3. Sandra Kurfürst, 2023. "Shared Streets: Choreographed Disorder in the Late Socialist City," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 11(2), pages 305-314.

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