1st Edition
Making Place State Projects, Globalisation and Local Responses in China
Edited By Stephan Feuchtwang
Copyright 2004
220 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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To make a place is to create a location where its creators can feel they belong. Processes of place-making are still very much ongoing today. Geographers, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers of advanced capitalism have said that place is a localisation of the global. However, the creation of a place is not legible from such grand perspectives. It is also much more creative than... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Theorising Place, Stephan Feuchtwang; Part 1 Urban Places; Chapter 2 Mapping ‘Chaos’, Wang Mingming; Chapter 3 Breathing New Life into Beijing Culture, Florence Graezer; Chapter 4 Establishing ‘Home’ Away from Home, Graham E Johnson; Chapter 5 Traditional Territories in a Contemporary City, Elizabeth Lominska Johnson; Part 2 Rural Places; Chapter 6 ‘The Place where the Sage Wouldn’t Go’ and ‘The Place where the Sage was born’, Zhao Bingxiang; Chapter 7 Hmong Places and Locality, Nicholas Tapp; Chapter 8 Senses of Local Place and the Temples of West Hunan, Mary Rack; Chapter 9 Curves and the Urbanisation of Meifa Village, Stephan Feuchtwang; Part 3 Afterword; Chapter 10 Space and Place, Laurie Kain Hart;
Biography
Stephan Feuchtwang
