Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper elucidates an analytical framework of the material-discursive nature of scalar struggles by interrogating how the leaders of the Chinese city of Anshun responded to their central government’s vision of building an ecological civilization. While they invoked some scales to articulate the city’s environmental commitment and leadership, thereby unlocking political advantages associated with ecological civilization construction, they prioritized other scales to justify expanding the city’s economy despite its fragile environment. To distinguish the diverse ways discourses contributed to a multi-scalar fix of Anshun’s development, this paper underscores two material aspects of scalar discourses. First, for its purpose of engagement with scale, each scalar discourse invokes a particular framing function of scale: as level of regulation, scope of analysis, or horizon of political mobilization. Second, for its strategy of engagement with scale, each scalar discourse engages differently with the inherent scalar institutions and practices, from preserving to challenging them.
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