Houses in Motion - The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia (Hardcover)

"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
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Cultural Memory in the Present
Release date:	July 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Richard Baxstrom
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 Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-5891-3
Barcode:	9780804758918

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