Houses in motion
Subtitle: the experience of place and the problem of belief in urban Malaysia
By: Richard Baxstrom.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9780804758918
Subjects: Sociology, Urban -- Malaysia; Urban policy -- Malaysia; Islam and politics -- Malaysia
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-275) and index.