A different place in the making : the everyday life practices of Chinese rural migrants in urban villages /

"The last three decades have seen dramatic changes in Chinese cities. While many tend to read these changes as the result of institutional reforms, macro planning, and top-down development, the author of this study focuses on the undercurrent at the bottom, from the margin, and without voice. B...

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Main Author: Yuan, Yan, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bern : Peter Lang, [2014]
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505 0 |a Re-grounding the migratory subjects in place -- The politics of place-making and the geography of migrant settlement in urban China -- Doing ethnography in urban villages -- Street life in the urban villages -- Co-inhabitation and transformation : knowing the locality through housing -- Possession, location, connection : the place of television in home-making -- The politics of place in the spring festival -- A televised spring festival and its consumption in the urban villages -- Conclusions. 
520 2 |a "The last three decades have seen dramatic changes in Chinese cities. While many tend to read these changes as the result of institutional reforms, macro planning, and top-down development, the author of this study focuses on the undercurrent at the bottom, from the margin, and without voice. Based on immersive fieldwork, she explores how a different place was created through the everyday life practices of rural migrants in two Chinese urban villages. Readers are invited to dive into a small, marginal, yet intricate and vibrant neighbourhood, where thousands of 'rural outsiders' found their settlement in the city. In this border space between the rural and the urban, place-making was not merely the government's redevelopment plan that would sooner or later demolish the whole area, it was also a dynamic process unfolding through people's everyday doing and living, such as their housing practices, street gathering, boiler house visits, public telephone calls, television consumption, and festival celebration. Featured by its cross-disciplinary horizon and intimate documentation, the present work exhibits an exemplary locale of a 'progressive sense of place' in contemporary China and provides original insights in how people's everyday life acts as an alternative arena of the politics of place-making between multiple forces"--Provided by publisher. 
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