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    The Yellow River in transition
    Webber, M ; Barnett, J ; Wang, M ; Finlayson, B ; Dickinson, D (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2008-08)
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    Migration, modernisation and ethnie estrangement: Uyghur migration to urumqi, Xinjiang Uyghur autonomous region, PRC
    Hopper, BEN ; Webber, M (Brill, 2009-01-01)
    Abstract In the People's Republic of China, minority nationality peoples have the same formal rights as Han Chinese. However, in Xinjiang, the modernisation project is taking precedence over ethnic harmony as recruitment practices are increasingly disadvantaging the Uyghurs, despite earlier affirmative action policies. Ethnographic and survey research among Urumqi's floating population indicates that Uyghurs are excluded from certain sectors, earn lower incomes and reside in poorer accommodation than Han Chinese, from whom they remain spatially and socially segregated. As the state increasingly relies on the invisible hand of the market, so the commodification of labour relations and property is amplifying social rifts between nationalities. Uneven regional development prompts Han people to migrate into Xinjiang and Uyghurs to migrate to the cities within Xinjiang, bringing these two ethnic groups into competition within a labour market. This has resulted in an ethnic division of labour that exacerbates inter- and intra-ethnic tensions.
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    The Places of Primitive Accumulation in Rural China
    Webber, M (TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2008-10)
    abstract “Rural” is a category of enduring significance in China. The trajectories of social change in China's rural areas reflect local dynamics and new forms of economy that encroach from local or distant cities and international sources. One indicator of change is the separation of people from their means of production: the development of the preconditions for capitalist production. Using information from villages scattered across China, this article identifies the sources of this separation and poses a theoretical question: can these changes be comprehended in a nondeterministic manner? The article demonstrates that the principal means of separating rural people from their means of production have been market based and largely local (reflecting forces within China), supplemented, however, by forcible dispossession. It also shows that the processes that drive primitive accumulation do not simply reflect an economic logic; they include environmental modernization, ethnic politics, nation building, and personal motives. The extraeconomic bases of economic change imply that primitive accumulation is not a process on a path to a known end point or to a predictable geography.
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    Pricing China's irrigation water
    Webber, M ; Barnett, J ; Finlayson, B ; Wang, M (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2008-10)