Entrée principale:

Baxstrom, Richard.

Titre et auteur:

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

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008.

Description:

ix, 283 pages ; 24 cm.

Série(s):

Cultural memory in the present

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.
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.

Résumé:

"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 it 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."--Jacket.

Ressources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780804758918 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804758913 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Sujet:

Sociology, Urban Malaysia.
Urban policy Malaysia.
Islam and politics Malaysia.
Sociologie urbaine Malaisie.
Politique urbaine Malaisie.
Islam and politics
Sociology, Urban
Urban policy
Stadtplanung
Gemeinschaftsgefühl
Religion
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur

Vedettes secondaires:

Cultural memory in the present.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 260813
Cote: BIB 191730
Statut: Disponible