Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities

ISBN-13: 9780415491426 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 210 str.

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Opis

This title documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia's fastest growing cities.

Recenzje

"I find Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities empirically comprehensive, interesting, informative and a must-read for those interested in globalisation, urban conflict and protest. Most importantly, all the chapters raise crucial questions about what constitutes the vision for a better world; to that extent, this book is an engaging critique of exclusionary urban transformations." - Ipsita Chatterjee, Urban Studies, 47(3), March 2010

Spis treści

Introduction: Cultures of Resistance in Asia’s Transforming Cities  1. Seeds of Dissent: The Politics of Resistance to Beijing’s Olympic Redevelopment  2. Negotiating Beijing’s Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century  3. Quietly, Quietly, Quietly: Beijing’s Migrant Civil Society Organisations  4. Singapore’s Public Housing Spaces: Alter - ‘native’ Spaces in Transition  5. ‘Talking cock’: Everyday Dissent through Complaint and Humour in Singapore  6. Negotiating Urban Activism: Women, Vending and the Transformation of Streetscapes in the Urban Philippines  7. The Streets of Kuala Lumpur: City-space, ‘Race’ and Civil Disobedience  8. Campaigning Against its Eviction: Local Trade in New ‘world-class’ Delhi  9. Re-writing Delhi: Cultural Resistance and Cosmopolitan Texts  10. Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent