LEADER 03417nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910828517403321 005 20240509074937.0 010 $a0-8047-7586-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804775861 035 $a(CKB)2670000000051817 035 $a(EBL)584766 035 $a(OCoLC)669520144 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000419906 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11327364 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000419906 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10385959 035 $a(PQKB)10073586 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127594 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC584766 035 $a(DE-B1597)563862 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804775861 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL584766 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10413402 035 $a(OCoLC)1178770142 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000051817 100 $a20071212d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHouses in motion $ethe experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia /$fRichard Baxstrom 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (304 p.) 225 1 $aCultural memory in the present 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-5891-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. The Founding of Brickfields and the Prewar Development of Kuala Lumpur -- $t2. The Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur -- $t3. Law, Justice, Disappearance: The Experience of Place in a Time of Radical Transformation -- $t4. Strangers, Counterfeiters, and Gangsters: Figures of Belonging and the Problem of Belief -- $t5. Ambivalent Encounters in the City: Islam, Hinduism, and Urban Governmentality -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aHouses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. Baxstrom offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local experiences of place, justice, relatedness, and possibilities for belief in an aggressively changing world. The book combines classic methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre, and moves beyond previous studies of Southeast Asian cities by linking larger conceptual issues of ethics, belief, and experience to the concrete trajectories of everyday urban life in the region. 410 0$aCultural memory in the present. 606 $aSociology, Urban$zMalaysia 606 $aUrban policy$zMalaysia 606 $aIslam and politics$zMalaysia 615 0$aSociology, Urban 615 0$aUrban policy 615 0$aIslam and politics 676 $a307.7609595 700 $aBaxstrom$b Richard$0873269 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828517403321 996 $aHouses in motion$94091300 997 $aUNINA