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OverviewThis book documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local capital, technology and labour flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia’s fastest growing cities. Rather than constructing occupants of the city as simply passive victims of globalisation or urbanisation, it presents ways in which people are using everyday strategies embedded in cultural practice to challenge dominant socio-economic and political forces impacting on urban space. Taking the city as a site of contestation and a stage where social conflicts are played out, the book highlights the connections between urban power and dissent; the nature and impact of resistance; how the spatiality and built environment of the city generates conflict and, conversely, how protagonists use the cityscape to stage their everyday and public dissent. The contributors explore the conditions, strategies, and outcomes of such dissent and forms of cultural resistance, and explore the following themes: the impact of urban development, gentrification and ghetto-isation; urban counter narratives and the re-imagining of city spaces; the role of grassroots activism and social movements; cultural resistance in the creation of neighbourhoods and communities; the impact of gender, class and the politics of identity on forms of dissent; the formation of transgressive spaces. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Melissa Butcher , Selvaraj Velayutham (Macquarie University, Australia)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.570kg ISBN: 9780415491426ISBN 10: 0415491428 Pages: 210 Publication Date: 19 March 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 6. Negotiating Urban Activism: Women, Vending and the Transformation of Streetscapes in the Urban Philippines 7. 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 DissentReviews<p> I find Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia s Cities empirically comprehensive, interesting, informative and a must-read for those interested in globalisation, urban conflict and protest. Most importantly, all the chapters raise crucial questions about what constitutes the vision for a better world; to that extent, this book is an engaging critique of exclusionary urban transformations. - Ipsita Chatterjee, Urban Studies, 47(3), March 2010 I find Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities empirically comprehensive, interesting, informative and a must-read for those interested in globalisation, urban conflict and protest. Most importantly, all the chapters raise crucial questions about what constitutes the vision for a better world; to that extent, this book is an engaging critique of exclusionary urban transformations. - Ipsita Chatterjee, Urban Studies, 47(3), March 2010 <p> I find Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia 's Cities empirically comprehensive, interesting, informative and a must-read for those interested in globalisation, urban conflict and protest. Most importantly, all the chapters raise crucial questions about what constitutes the vision for a better world; to that extent, this book is an engaging critique of exclusionary urban transformations. - Ipsita Chatterjee, Urban Studies, 47(3), March 2010 Author InformationOpen University, UK Macquarie University, Australia Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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