Suvi Rautio is a social and cultural anthropologist working on collective memory, cultural heritage, and ethnographies of encounter in contemporary China. Having grown up in Beijing, she is passionate about understanding the social orderings of marginalised populations living in contemporary China. She is currently working as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellow at City University New York and the University of Helsinki on a project that begins with her family history and extends to the lives of Beijing’s intellectuals during the Maoist era.
Over the past four decades in China’s forward march to capitalist modernisation, the nation’s vast urban expansion has been contingent on demolition and relocation. Since Xi Jinping came to power, projects such as the ‘Traditional Village’ heritage scheme have sought to gear development towards a new era in which Chinese heritage sits at the core. […]
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