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Gated Communities in China : Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life.
This book examines the nature and dynamics of gated communities within the specificities of reform Shanghai, a city that arguably has been at the forefront of China's new urban/consumer revolution.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2009.
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| Colección: | Routledge Pacific Rim geographies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Gated communities and the lure of the good life; 2 Making middle-class spaces: Privilege, territoriality and the moral geographies of exclusion; 3 Urban reform, the new middle class and the emergence of gated communities in Shanghai; 4 Imagineering suburbia: Contested representations of the Chinese dream home; 5 Seeking privacy and seclusion: Private property, individualism and neoliberal subjectivities; 6 Maintaining order and civility: Purified spaces and the paradox of gated living.
- 7 Beyond the gates: A geographicalmoral critique8 Conclusion; Appendix: Notes on research methodologies and fieldwork; Notes; Bibliography; Index.