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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Bern :
Peter Lang,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.