This 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.
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