Ebook: Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia
Author: Baxstrom Richard
- Tags: Sociology Urban -- Malaysia. Urban policy -- Malaysia. Islam and politics -- Malaysia. Social Science. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. Islam and politics. Sociology Urban. Urban policy. Malaysia. Stadtplanung. Gemeinschaftsgefühl. Religion. Kuala Lumpur.
- Series: Cultural memory in the present
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- City: Kuala Lumpur., Stanford, Calif., Malaysia
- Language: English
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Combining classic methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre, Houses in Motion 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 Read more...
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Tells about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. This book combines methods of Read more...
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