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

ISBN-13: 9780367511128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 218 str.

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 Contributors  Acknowledgements  List of Figures  List of Tables and Boxes  Introduction: Why Use the Concept of Marginality Today?  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  2. Rural “Dama” in China’s Urbanisation: From Rural Left-behind to Urban Strangers  Part II: Margins in Mainland China: Shanghai  3. When a Marginal Area is Transformed into a Tourist Hot Spot: Tianzifang in Shanghai  4. Cemeteries in Shanghai: Beyond the Margins  Part III: Margins in Hong Kong  5. “My Community Doesn’t Belong to Me Anymore!” Tourism-driven Spatial Change and Radicalise Identity Politics in Hong Kong  6. Surviving the Collective Subjectivity of Choy Yuen Village: From Multiple Marginalizations to Irreversible Resistance  Part IV: Margins in India  7. Waste in the Urban Margins: The Example of Delhi’s Waste-Pickers  8. Living on the Margins of the Legal City in the Southern Periphery of Chennai: A Case of Cumulative Marginalities  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.