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Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities

224 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

224 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

224 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations

by Routledge

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This book documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local capital, technology and labour flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia’s fastest growing cities. Rather than constructing occupants of the city as simply passive victims of globalisation or urbanisation, it presents ways in which people are using everyday strategies embedded in... Read more

Introduction: Cultures of Resistance in Asia’s Transforming Cities Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham 1. Seeds of Dissent: The Politics of Resistance to Beijing’s Olympic Redevelopment Anne-Marie Broudehoux 2. Negotiating Beijing’s Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Maurizio Marinelli 3. Quietly, quietly, quietly: Beijing’s Migrant Civil Society Organisations Jennifer Hsu 4. Singapore’s Public Housing Spaces: Alter - ‘native’ Spaces in Transition Limin Hee 5. ‘Talking cock’: Everyday Dissent through Complaint and Humour in Singapore Selvaraj Velayutham 6. Negotiating Urban Activism: Women, Vending and the Transformation of Streetscapes in the Urban Philippines B. Lynne Milgram 7. The Streets of Kuala Lumpur: City-space, ‘race’ and civil disobedience Yeoh Seng Guan 8. Campaigning Against its Eviction: Local Trade in New ‘world-class’ Delhi Diya Mehra 9. Re-writing Delhi: Cultural Resistance and Cosmopolitan Texts Melissa Butcher 10. Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent Shilpa Phadke, Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan