1st Edition
Living in the Margins in Mainland China, Hong Kong and India
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables and Boxes
Introduction: Why Use the Concept of Marginality Today? (Wing Chung Ho and Florence Padovani)
Part Ⅰ: Margins in Mainland China: The Rural-Urban Interface
1. Home for Fewer People: The Demolishment of the Sun Palace Farmers’ Market and Its Long-term Effect on Lower-skilled Population in Beijing (Yulin Chen, Fei Yan, Yue Yang, and Hengyu Liu)
2. Rural “Dama” in China’s Urbanisation: From Rural Left-behind to Urban Strangers (Jing Song and Lulu Li)
Part II: Margins in Mainland China: Shanghai
3. When a Marginal Area is Transformed into a Tourist Hot Spot: Tianzifang in Shanghai (Florence Padovani)
4. Cemeteries in Shanghai: Beyond the Margins (Maylis Bellocq)
Part III: Margins in Hong Kong
5. “My Community Doesn’t Belong to Me Anymore!” Tourism-driven Spatial Change and Radicalise Identity Politics in Hong Kong (Alex Chen Siu Kin and Wing Chung Ho)
6. Surviving the Collective Subjectivity of Choy Yuen Village: From Multiple Marginalizations to Irreversible Resistance (Linda Tjia Yin-nor)
Part IV: Margins in India
7. Waste in the Urban Margins: The Example of Delhi’s Waste-Pickers (Rémi de Bercegol and Shankare Gowda)
8. Living on the Margins of the Legal City in the Southern Periphery of Chennai: A Case of Cumulative Marginalities (Véronique Dupont and R. Dhanalakshmi)
Index
Biography
Wing Chung Ho is Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences at City University of Hong Kong.
Florence Padovani is Director of the Sino-French Research Centre in Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; and Associate Professor at Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne University, Paris, France.
