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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baxstrom, Richard.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. Baxstrom offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local experiences of place, justice, relatedness, and possibilities for belief in an aggressively changing world. The book combines classic methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre, and moves beyond previous studies of Southeast Asian cities by linking larger conceptual issues of ethics, belief, and experience to the concrete trajectories of everyday urban life in the region.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

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

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

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

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

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9780804775861

0804775869

OCLC:

669520144