ISBN:
1282064916
,
0415491428
,
9781282064911
,
9780415491426
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 207 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary Asia series 14
Parallel Title:
Print version Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities
DDC:
303.48/4095091732
Keywords:
Dissenters
;
Protest movements
;
City and town life
Abstract:
This book seeks document urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia's fastest growing cities
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Cultures of resistance in Asia's transforming cities; 1 Seeds of dissent: The politics of resistance to Beijing's Olympic redevelopment; 2 Negotiating Beijing's identity at the turn of the twentieth century; 3 Quietly, quietly, quietly: Beijing's migrant civil society organisations; 4 Singapore's public housing spaces: Alter-'native' spaces in transition; 5 'Talking cock': Everyday dissent through complaint and humour in Singapore
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Negotiating urban activism: Women, vending and the transformation of streetscapes in the urban Philippines7 The streets of Kuala Lumpur: City-space, 'race' and civil disobedience; 8 Campaigning against its eviction: Local trade in new 'world-class' Delhi; 9 Re-writing Delhi: Cultural resistance and cosmopolitan texts; 10 Why loiter? Radical possibilities for gendered dissent; Index
Note:
Includes index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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