Houses in motion: the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia
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1. Verfasser: Baxstrom, Richard (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Cultural memory in the present
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index
I. Historical Context -- 1. Founding of Brickfields and the Prewar Development of Kuala Lumpur -- 2. Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur -- II. Law, Justice, and the Experience of Everyday Life in Brickfields, 2000-2002 -- 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 Governmenraliry
Combining classic methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre, Houses in Motion 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
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ISBN:0804775869
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