Houses in Motion The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia

Name: Houses in Motion The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia
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ISBN: 9780804758918

ISBN-10: 0804758913

ISBN-13: 9780804758918

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard Baxstrom

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Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysiais 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,…

Book details

List price: $57.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 7/14/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Historical Context



The Founding of Brickfields and the Prewar Development of Kuala Lumpur



The Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur



Law, Justice, and the Experience of Everyday Life in Brickfields, 2000-2002



Law, Justice, Disappearance: The Experience of Place in a Time of Radical Transformation



Strangers, Counterfeiters, and Gangsters: Figures of Belonging and the Problem of Belief



Ambivalent Encounters in the City: Islam, Hinduism, and Urban Governmentality


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index