Table of Contents

Introduction: Cultures of Resistance in Asia’s Transforming Cities 1. Seeds of Dissent: The Politics of Resistance to Beijing’s Olympic Redevelopment 2. Negotiating Beijing’s Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 3. Quietly, Quietly, Quietly: Beijing’s Migrant Civil Society Organisations 4. Singapore’s Public Housing Spaces: Alter - ‘native’ Spaces in Transition 5. ‘Talking cock’: Everyday Dissent through Complaint and Humour in Singapore 6. Negotiating Urban Activism: Women, Vending and the Transformation of Streetscapes in the Urban Philippines 7. The Streets of Kuala Lumpur: City-space, ‘Race’ and Civil Disobedience 8. Campaigning Against its Eviction: Local Trade in New ‘world-class’ Delhi 9. Re-writing Delhi: Cultural Resistance and Cosmopolitan Texts 10. Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent