Gated communities in China : class, privilege and the moral politics of the good life / Pow Choon-Piew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pow, Choon-Piew, 1974-2021, author.

Series:

Routledge Pacific Rim geographies (2007) ; 7.

Routledge Pacific Rim geographies ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gated communities--China--Shanghai.

Gated communities.

Middle class--China--Shanghai.

Middle class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China's commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound up in the cultural reproduction of middle-class landscape that is entrenched in the politics of the good life - defined in terms of a highly segregated landscape secured and maintained through the territorialisation of privilege, lifestyle and private property. The study challenges

Contents:

Introduction: gated communities and the lure of the good life

Making middle-class spaces: privilege, territoriality and the moral geographies of exclusion

Urban reform, the new middle-class and the emergence of gated communities in Shanghai

Imagineering suburbia: contested representations of the Chinese dream home

Seeking privacy and seclusion: private property, individualism and neoliberal subjectivities

Maintaining order and civility: purified spaces and the paradox of gated living

Beyond the gates: a geographical-moral critique.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-02096-1

1-134-02097-X

1-282-73355-9

9786612733550

0-203-87620-2

9780203876206

OCLC:

642660934