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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Glavni avtor: Yuan, Yan, 1969- (Author)
Format: Elektronski eKnjiga
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Bern : Peter Lang, [2014]
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Kazalo:
  • 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.