Houses in motion the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia
Tells about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. This book combines methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre...
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Stanford, CA
Stanford University Press
2008
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| Series: | Cultural memory in the present
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Table of Contents:
- pt.1. Historical Context
- The Founding of Brickfields and the Prewar Development of Kuala Lumpur
- The Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur
- pt.2. Law, Justice, and the Experience of Everyday Life in Brickfields, 2000-2002
- Law, Justice, Disappearance: The Experience of Place in a Time of Radical Transformation
- Strangers, Counterfeiters, and Gangsters: Figures of Belonging and the Problem of Belief
- Ambivalent Encounters in the City: Islam, Hinduism, and Urban Governmenraliry