Schools as Drivers of Capitalist Accumulation Conditional Socialized Reproduction in Shenzhen

Abstract Based on fieldwork in an urbanized village of Shenzhen, this paper analyzes the place schools reproduction Chinese state capitalism. It retraces circuit socialized capital that allows for social native elite and exclusion many migrant workers context Shenzhen’s development as a special economic zone its efforts to upgrade economy. The villagers, now forming urban upper-class rentiers, have capitalized their overseas connections accumulation finance school, allowing elite’s upward mobility after, but also already under Mao. After China’s transition capitalism, school has served asset generating value redevelopment real estate-driven upgrading Property ownership is major criterion points-based systems accessing places. I make two interrelated arguments. First, there closer relationship between secondary larger than what literature implies. Second, conditionality quality education upon generation amounts separating population deemed worthy surplus left out. connects diverse strands theory, Althusser’s interpellation ideological apparatuses, feminist agentive theories, Bourdieu’s conversion recuperated within Marxian framework, provide integrated approach