Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies
|
Buy Now
A Different Place in the Making - The Everyday Life Practices of Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Villages (Paperback, New edition)
Loot Price: R2,513
Discovery Miles 25 130
|
|
A Different Place in the Making - The Everyday Life Practices of Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Villages (Paperback, New edition)
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
Donate to Against Period Poverty
Total price: R2,533
Discovery Miles: 25 330
|
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
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.