“Biopolitics from below?” — Lessons of Emergent Urban Governance Trend Under Covid-19 in China

This thesis interrogates COVID-19 emergent urban governance trends in China in response to the COVID-19 crisis, with a particular focus on the use of the narratives of epidemic and state emergency, as well as the governance strategies during the pandemic and in the socalled post-COVID era. More impo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shao, Yu
Other Authors: Rajagopal, Balakrishnan
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2025
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/158308