Living in the Margins in Mainland China, Hong Kong and India

ISBN-13: 9780367480783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 218 str.

Wing Chung Ho; Florence Padovani

Opis

With a range of case studies from Asia, this book sheds light on empirical realizations of marginality in a globalized context using first-hand original research.

Spis treści

List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresList of Tables and Boxes Introduction: Why Use the Concept of Marginality Today? (Wing Chung Ho and Florence Padovani) Part Ⅰ: Margins in Mainland China: The Rural-Urban Interface 1. Home for Fewer People: The Demolishment of the Sun Palace Farmers’ Market and Its Long-term Effect on Lower-skilled Population in Beijing (Yulin Chen, Fei Yan, Yue Yang, and Hengyu Liu)2. Rural “Dama” in China’s Urbanisation: From Rural Left-behind to Urban Strangers (Jing Song and Lulu Li)Part II: Margins in Mainland China: Shanghai3. When a Marginal Area is Transformed into a Tourist Hot Spot: Tianzifang in Shanghai (Florence Padovani)4. Cemeteries in Shanghai: Beyond the Margins (Maylis Bellocq)Part III: Margins in Hong Kong5. “My Community Doesn’t Belong to Me Anymore!” Tourism-driven Spatial Change and Radicalise Identity Politics in Hong Kong (Alex Chen Siu Kin and Wing Chung Ho)6. Surviving the Collective Subjectivity of Choy Yuen Village: From Multiple Marginalizations to Irreversible Resistance (Linda Tjia Yin-nor) Part IV: Margins in India 7. Waste in the Urban Margins: The Example of Delhi’s Waste-Pickers (Rémi de Bercegol and Shankare Gowda)8. Living on the Margins of the Legal City in the Southern Periphery of Chennai: A Case of Cumulative Marginalities (Véronique Dupont and R. Dhanalakshmi) Index

O autorze

Wing Chung Ho is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University of Hong Kong.

Florence Padovani is Director of the Sino-French Research Centre in Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; and Associate Professor at Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris, France.