A Different Place in the Making - The Everyday Life Practices of Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Villages (Paperback, New edition)

The last three decades have seen dramatic changes in Chinese cities. While many tend to read these changes as the result of institutional reforms, macro planning, and top-down development, the author of this study focuses on the undercurrent at the bottom, from the margin, and without voice. Based on immersive fieldwork, she explores how a different place was created through the everyday life practices of rural migrants in two Chinese urban villages. Readers are invited to dive into a small, marginal, yet intricate and vibrant neighbourhood, where thousands of 'rural outsiders' found their settlement in the city. In this border space between the rural and the urban, place-making was not merely the government's redevelopment plan that would sooner or later demolish the whole area, it was also a dynamic process unfolding through people's everyday doing and living, such as their housing practices, street gathering, boiler house visits, public telephone calls, television consumption, and festival celebration. Featured by its cross-disciplinary horizon and intimate documentation, the present work exhibits an exemplary locale of a 'progressive sense of place' in contemporary China and provides original insights in how people's everyday life acts as an alternative arena of the politics of place-making between multiple forces.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	August 2014
First published:	2014
Authors:	Yan Yuan
Dimensions:	225 x 150 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	359
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-431492-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > Political geography Promotions
LSN:	3-03-431492-2
Barcode:	9783034314923

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