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
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| 出版日期 | 2023-10-10 |
| 页码 | 17 |
| 关键词 | assemblage China electric vehicle futurity Tesla |
| ISSN号 | 0020-2754 |
| DOI | 10.1111/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 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | 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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