Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia /
Baxstrom, Richard.
Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia / Richard Baxstrom. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (ix, 283 pages) - Cultural memory in the present . - Cultural memory in the present. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.
I. Historical Context -- 1. Founding of Brickfields and the Prewar Development of Kuala Lumpur -- 2. Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur -- 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 -- 4. Strangers, Counterfeiters, and Gangsters: Figures of Belonging and the Problem of Belief -- 5. Ambivalent Encounters in the City: Islam, Hinduism, and Urban Governmenraliry.
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Combining classic methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre, Houses in Motion 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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
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2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780804775861 (electronic bk.) 0804775869 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
22573/ctvqrmc7k JSTOR
Sociology, Urban--Malaysia.
Urban policy--Malaysia.
Islam and politics--Malaysia.
Sociologie urbaine--Malaisie.
Politique urbaine--Malaisie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Islam and politics.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban policy.
Stadtplanung
Gemeinschaftsgefühl
Religion
Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HT147.M325 / B39 2008eb
307.7609595
Houses in motion : the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia / Richard Baxstrom. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (ix, 283 pages) - Cultural memory in the present . - Cultural memory in the present. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-275) and index.
I. Historical Context -- 1. Founding of Brickfields and the Prewar Development of Kuala Lumpur -- 2. Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur -- 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 -- 4. Strangers, Counterfeiters, and Gangsters: Figures of Belonging and the Problem of Belief -- 5. Ambivalent Encounters in the City: Islam, Hinduism, and Urban Governmenraliry.
Use copy
Combining classic methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre, Houses in Motion 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.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
English.
9780804775861 (electronic bk.) 0804775869 (electronic bk.) (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)
22573/ctvqrmc7k JSTOR
Sociology, Urban--Malaysia.
Urban policy--Malaysia.
Islam and politics--Malaysia.
Sociologie urbaine--Malaisie.
Politique urbaine--Malaisie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
Islam and politics.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban policy.
Stadtplanung
Gemeinschaftsgefühl
Religion
Malaysia.
Kuala Lumpur
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HT147.M325 / B39 2008eb
307.7609595