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Making Place - State Projects, Globalisation and Local Responses in China (Paperback)
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Making Place - State Projects, Globalisation and Local Responses in China (Paperback)
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To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel
they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing
today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and
philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a
localisation of the global. However, the creation of a place is not
legible from such grand perspectives. It is also much more creative
than can be predicted by translating large-scale processes into
local cultures. Anthropologists have been sensitive to the
intimate, tragic and lyrical senses of local place. But their
theorising has been too much bound up with cosmology and
insufficiently with the intermediate scales of state and local
state. In this book, Stephan Feuchtwang and his contributors offer
a set of historical, anthropological and scale-mediated studies
from China - a country that includes a subcontinental variety of
cultures and landscapes. In the twentieth century it experienced
collapse in civil war and was then reasserted as a particularly
strong state. Now it is managing the fastest growing capitalist
economy in the world. These intriguing Chinese studies contribute
to the anthropology of place and space, providing an historical
perspective on processes of change and of accommodation to
disruption. The stories they tell are fascinating in their own
right, but in addition, the result is a critical reformulation of
previous theories of place that geographers, philosophers,
historians, and anthropologists will find of great interest.
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