As wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their presence undid a longstanding liberal consensus that defined politics and spatial inequality there. Riding the currents of a neoliberal wave, these immigrants became the center of vigorous public controversies around planning, home building, multiculturalism, and the future of Vancouver. Because of their class status and their financial capacity to remake space in their own ways, they became the key to a reshaping of Vancouver through struggles that are necessarily both global and local in context,...
As wealthy immigrants from Hong Kong began to settle in Vancouver, British Columbia, their presence undid a longstanding liberal consensus that define...
In part a tour of California as a virtual laboratory for refining the circulation of capital, and in part an investigation of how the state's literati reconceived economy in the name of class, gender, and racial privilege, this study is for students and scholars of California's and the American West's economic, environmental, and cultural past.
In part a tour of California as a virtual laboratory for refining the circulation of capital, and in part an investigation of how the state's literati...
