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Practising future-making: Anticipation and translocal politics of Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai as assemblage

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作者Han, Xiao3,4; Liu, Weidong2; Jiang, Tianhe1
刊名TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS
出版日期2023-10-10
页码17
关键词assemblage China electric vehicle futurity Tesla
ISSN号0020-2754
DOI10.1111/tran.12645
通讯作者Han, Xiao(xiao.han1@unimelb.edu.au)
英文摘要Human geographers are increasingly concerned with how 'futures' are imagined and rendered governable, yet mostly their methods lack the sensitivity to explore the functioning of complex relations between heterogeneous actors across places. The world's electric vehicle (EV) sector is booming, presaging a widely expected decarbonised future, associated with a restructuring of the automobile industry as anticipated by proactive players. This paper interrogates the spatiality and politics of the EV future-making through disentangling the translocal practices involved in realising Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai (TGS) as assemblage. Informed by interviews with industrial insiders and opensource information in Chinese and English, the article finds that, first, TGS's imagined future embodies a multiplicity of interdependent but divergent expectations, the coherence of which underlies the formation and operation of the TGS assemblage by virtue of the concerted actions of its member-actors. Second, such coherence is conditional as designed by TGS's central planners-namely, Tesla and Chinese government agencies at central and local levels-for their differentiated but overlapping interests. The TGS's imagined future is rendered actionable, enrolling other agents at certain moments, through anticipatory practices of regulatory changes, strategic arrangements interweaving land and financing, firm acquisition and intra-firm reorganisation linking up places in and outside China, as well as the selection of key suppliers and technological use of critical raw materials. Concluding after a sketch on the TGS's 'possible futures' and broader implications, the paper contributes an assemblage-informed approach to disentangle futuremaking practices and generates timely insights into the 'future-oriented' restructuring of the automobile industry.
WOS关键词AUTO INDUSTRY ; CHINA ; TESLA ; POWER
资助项目This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42101234), The authors are grateful to all the people they talked to during the fieldwork. They also thank Professor Michael Webber for detailed comments on an earlier d[42101234] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
WOS研究方向Geography
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:001081757200001
出版者WILEY
资助机构This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42101234), The authors are grateful to all the people they talked to during the fieldwork. They also thank Professor Michael Webber for detailed comments on an earlier d ; National Natural Science Foundation of China
源URL[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/198890]  
专题中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者Han, Xiao
作者单位1.Nanjing Univ Posts & Telecommun, Nanjing, Peoples R China
2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing, Peoples R China
3.Univ Melbourne, Asia Inst, Parkville, Vic, Australia
4.Hohai Univ, Sch Publ Adm, Nanjing, Peoples R China
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Han, Xiao,Liu, Weidong,Jiang, Tianhe. Practising future-making: Anticipation and translocal politics of Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai as assemblage[J]. TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS,2023:17.
APA Han, Xiao,Liu, Weidong,&Jiang, Tianhe.(2023).Practising future-making: Anticipation and translocal politics of Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai as assemblage.TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS,17.
MLA Han, Xiao,et al."Practising future-making: Anticipation and translocal politics of Tesla's Gigafactory in Shanghai as assemblage".TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS (2023):17.

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