Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia / Richard Baxstrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baxstrom, Richard.

Contributor:

Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban--Malaysia.

Sociology, Urban.

Urban policy--Malaysia.

Urban policy.

Islam and politics--Malaysia.

Islam and politics.

Malaysia.

Physical Description:

ix, 283 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]

Contents:

1 Historical Context

1 The Founding of Brickfields and the Prewar Development of Kuala Lumpur 25

2 The Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur 54

II Law, Justice, and the Experience of Everyday Life in Brickfields, 2000-2002

3 Law, Justice, Disappearance: The Experience of Place in a Time of Radical Transformation 85

4 Strangers, Counterfeiters, and Gangsters: Figures of Belonging and the Problem of Belief 130

5 Ambivalent Encounters in the City: Islam, Hinduism, and Urban Governmentality 176.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [253]-275) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edith E. Clark Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

9780804758918

0804758913

OCLC:

185026545