1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910592293803321

Autore

Wu Fulong

Titolo

Creating Chinese urbanism : urban revolution and governance changes / / Fulong Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : UCL Press, , 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 283 pages)

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

City and town life

Urbanization - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: leaving the soil -- 1 Changing residential landscape: a new urban social geography -- 2 The end of (neo-)traditionalism -- 3 Transient space with a new moral order -- 4 Residential enclosure without private governance -- 5 Rethinking urban China in an urban debate -- Conclusion: a visible state emerging from urban revolution -- References -- Index -- Back Matter.

Sommario/riassunto

Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance changes at the grassroots level. During the imperial and socialist periods, state and society were embedded. However, as China has been becoming urban, the territorial foundation of 'earth-bound' society has been dismantled. This metaphorically started an urban revolution, which has transformed the social order derived from the 'state in society'. The state has thus become more visible in Chinese urban life. Besides witnessing the breaking down of socially integrated neighbourhoods, Fulong Wu explains the urban roots of a rising state in China. Instead of governing through autonomous stakeholders, state-sponsored strategic intentions remain. In the urban realm, the desire for greater residential privacy does not foster collectivism. State-led rebuilding of residential communities has sped up the demise of traditionalism and given birth



to a new China with greater urbanism and state-centred governance. Taking the vantage point of concrete residential neighbourhoods, Creating Chinese Urbanism offers a cutting-edge analysis of how China is becoming urban and grounds the changing state governance in the process of urbanization. Its original and material interpretation of the changing role of the state in China makes it suitable reading for researchers and students in the fields of urban studies, geography, planning and the built environment.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788718103321

Autore

Jøker Bjerre Henrik

Titolo

The subject of politics [[electronic resource] ] : Slavoj Žižek's political philosophy / / Henrik Jøker Bjerre & Carsten Bagge Laustsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tirril [England], : Humanities-Ebooks, 2010

ISBN

1-282-52645-6

9786612526459

1-84760-169-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (124 p.)

Collana

Philosophy insights

Altri autori (Persone)

LaustsenCarsten Bagge

Disciplina

320.092

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Licence and Use ""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""CONTENTS ""; ""A Note on the Authors""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1. Lacanian interventions: Psychoanalysis as a theory of society""; ""The unconscious""; ""Back to Lacan""; ""Discourse analysis or critique of ideology""; ""You remind me of Emmanuel Ravelli!""; ""Chapter 2. The ideological fantasm: Zizek's sociology""; ""We know very well""; ""The mirror stage as critique of ideology""; ""Fetishism as a political form""; ""The two sides of the social bond""

""Chapter 3. A world out of joint:  Zizek's diagnosis of contemporary society""""The fall of the Father""; ""Nationalism and ethnic conflicts""; ""Multiculturalism and racism""; ""Terrorism and 11 September""; ""Chapter 4. The revolutionary subject:  Zizek's ethical and political



horizon""; ""I think not, therefore I am""; ""The Proletarian""; ""It is the economy, stupid!""; ""Postmodernism as the new ideological superstructure of capitalism""; ""St. Paul on the barricade""; ""Communism, of course!""; ""Chapter 5. Did somebody say totalitarianism: Zizek's critics.""

""The rebellion against the father""""Passions of the real""; ""The useful idiot""; ""Bibliography""

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816043503321

Autore

Kapoor Ilan

Titolo

Confronting desire : psychoanalysis and international development / / Ilan Kapoor [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-5017-5174-3

1-5017-5175-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Cornell scholarship online

Disciplina

150.195

Soggetti

Social sciences and psychoanalysis

Economic development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Psychoanalysis and International Development -- 2. Post-Development’s Surrender to Global Capitalism: A Psychoanalytic Critique -- 3. Antagonism: The Universalist Dimensions of Antagonism -- 4. Drive: What “Drives” Capitalist Development? -- 5. Envy: Capitalism as Envy-Machine -- 6. Fetishism: Fetishism in International Development: Domination, Disavowal, and Foreclosure -- 7. Gaze: The “Gaze” in Participatory Development: Panoptic or Traumatic? -- 8. Gender/Sex: When Sex = (Socially Constructed) Gender, What Is Lost, Politically? Psychoanalytic Reflections on Gender and Development -- 9. Perversion/Hysteria: The Politics of Perversion and Hysteria in the Tunisian Revolution and Its Aftermath -- 10. Queerness: The Queer Third World -- 11. Racism: The Racist Enjoyments and Fantasies of International Development -- 12. Symptom: Development and the Poor:



Enjoy Your Symptom! -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

By applying psychoanalytic perspectives to key themes, concepts, and practices underlying the development enterprise, 'Confronting Desire' offers a new way of analyzing the problems, challenges, and potentialities of international development. Ilan Kapoor makes a compelling case for examining development's unconscious desires, and in the process inaugurates a new field of study: psychoanalytic development studies.