Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia - Couverture rigide

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Baxstrom, Richard

 
9780804758918: Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia
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ISBN 10 : 0804758913 ISBN 13 : 9780804758918
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

Richard Baxstrom holds the position of Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804758913
ISBN 13 
9780804758918
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
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Personne responsable
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