Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baxstrom, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
Subjects:
Sociology, Urban > Malaysia.
Urban policy > Malaysia.
Islam and politics > Malaysia.
Sociologie urbaine > Malaisie.
Politique urbaine > Malaisie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Islam and politics
Sociology, Urban
Urban policy
Stadtplanung
Gemeinschaftsgefühl
Religion
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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