Influencing Factors for Spatial Conflicts in the Resettled Community for Landless Peasants: A Perspective of Space Ternary Dialectics

The urbanization process in China has been extremely compressed in time and space, resulting in serious conflicts over any given time period. Resettled communities for landless peasants is a kind of transitional community between urban and rural communities. The behaviors with rural life habits are quite common in resettled communities, leading to serious spatial conflicts among residents in the community which is a big challenge to the community governance. The existing studies does not provide a rigorous and structured identification of these factors. Therefore, in order to provide theoretical guidance for the governance of the spatial conflicts of this kind of community, this paper proposed an analytical framework on factors influencing spatial conflicts. Firstly, this paper developed a three-dimensional theoretical framework for the influencing factors of spatial conflicts in resettled community based on Lefebvre’s ternary dialectical space view. Secondly, on the basis of three-dimensional theoretical framework, 26 influencing factors for spatial conflicts in resettled community were extracted through the collation of literature and content analysis. Finally an analytical framework on influencing factors of spatial conflicts in the resettled community for both conflict governance and government policy is developed. Also, suggestions are proposed to reduce the spatial conflicts in the resettled community for landless peasants. This paper helps to provide inspiration for the governance of resettled communities and the study on community spatial conflicts.