%0 Journal Article
%T Zone Analog: The State¨CMarket Problematic and Territorial Economies in China
%A Carolyn Cartier
%J Critical Sociology
%@ 1569-1632
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0896920517712367
%X The subject of economic zones has proliferated in scholarship on Asia and beyond as a relational approach to social and economic geographies linked to the world economy. Signifying co-locations and mobile capacities of labor and capital, ¡®zone¡¯ has circulated as a concept whose ¡®exceptional¡¯ conditions deterritorialize from national landscapes. This article contends that ¡®zone¡¯ and the territorial processes it represents have receded from critical analysis, and develops a state¨Cmarket problematic to examine how analog circulation of ¡®zone¡¯ and ¡®zoning technologies¡¯ reproduces notional space of neoliberal marketization even where state capitalism defines territorial economies. The fundamental aporia emerges in the People¡¯s Republic of China where a ¡®zone¡¯ is one and every type of subnational territory: the party-state guides economic development by changing the system of administrative territory to produce multiple types of jurisdictional units with varied state-defined rationales including the emblematic Shenzhen ¡®zone¡¯. Zone analog, drawing on models from spatial science, paradoxically reveals ¡®zoning technologies¡¯ to be not a general argument for neoliberalism as incremental marketization but rather state territorialization of the economy in general
%K analog models
%K China
%K economic zones
%K geography
%K Shenzhen
%K spatial science
%K territorial economies
%K territory
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0896920517712367