探索与争鸣 ›› 2023, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (2): 89-101.

• 文明型构与技术创新 • 上一篇    下一篇

工程国家:一个理解现代国家权力运作的理论框架

王浩宇
  

  • 出版日期:2023-02-20 发布日期:2023-04-10
  • 作者简介:西南交通大学公共管理学院副研究员。(成都 610031)

The Engineeristic State: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Operation of Modern State Power

Wang Haoyu
  

  • Online:2023-02-20 Published:2023-04-10

摘要:

工程国家指基础设施与政治活动双向塑造的一种现代国家形态。相较古代和传统国家,现代国家的基础设施建设获得了政治力量的大规模推动,国家政治也围绕基础设施而构建。工程国家凭借强大的国家能力,利用基础设施工程实现了对国土空间的规训,为国家意志的延伸提供了必要条件。基础设施也为工程国家创造了可视化的政治语言,在庞大的人口基数背景下有效促进了国民意识的形塑,使国家权力向基层社会的持久渗入成为可能。但是,基础设施运作的复杂性也给人类社会及其权力秩序带来了诸多不确定性,尤其是新型基础设施的“去领土化”冲击以及国家治理负荷的持续增长,使工程国家的发展正面临着一系列新挑战。

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Abstract:

The engineeristic state refers to a modern state shaped by infrastructure and political activities. Compared with ancient and traditional countries, the infrastructure construction of modern countries has been promoted by the political power on a large scale, and the national politics has built itself around the infrastructure. With strong national capacity, the engineeristic state has realized the discipline of national spatial by taking advantage of infrastructure engineering, providing necessary conditions for the extension of national will. Infrastructure also creates a visual political language for the engineeristic state, effectively promotes the shaping of national consciousness under the background of a large population base, and makes it possible for the lasting infiltration of state power into the grassroots society. However, the complexity of infrastructure operation also brings a lot of uncertainties to the human society and its power order, especially the impact of the “de-territorialization” of new infrastructure and the continuous growth of national governance load, so that the development of the engineeristic state is facing a series of new challenges.

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