Houses in motion
the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia
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Author
Publication
2008 - Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, California
Language
English
Word Count
70,750 words, Guess
Page Count
283 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehousesinmotionex0000baxs_z1d7
- Internet Archivehousesinmotionex0000baxs_s1i3
- Internet Archivehousesmotionexpe00baxs
- ISBN-100804758913
- ISBN-139780804758918
and 4 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2007050725
- OCLC Control Number185026545
- Better World Books9780804758918
- Open LibraryOL22657173M
Classifications
- DDC307.7609595
- LCCHT147.M325 B39 2008
- LCCHT147
Description
"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 it 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects
Topics
Places
Series Statement
- Cultural memory in the present
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