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Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia / / Richard Baxstrom



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Autore: Baxstrom Richard Visualizza persona
Titolo: Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia / / Richard Baxstrom Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (304 p.)
Disciplina: 307.7609595
Soggetto topico: Sociology, Urban - Malaysia
Urban policy - Malaysia
Islam and politics - Malaysia
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Founding of Brickfields and the Prewar Development of Kuala Lumpur -- 2. The Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur -- 3. Law, Justice, Disappearance: The Experience of Place in a Time of Radical Transformation -- 4. Strangers, Counterfeiters, and Gangsters: Figures of Belonging and the Problem of Belief -- 5. Ambivalent Encounters in the City: Islam, Hinduism, and Urban Governmentality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Houses 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Houses in motion  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-7586-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828517403321
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Serie: Cultural memory in the present.