"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 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.
General
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Cultural Memory in the Present |
Release date: |
July 2008 |
First published: |
2008 |
Authors: |
Richard Baxstrom
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth
|
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8047-5891-8 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
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LSN: |
0-8047-5891-3 |
Barcode: |
9780804758918 |
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