Re-visioning the Public in Post-reform Urban China Poetics and Politics in Guangzhou /

This book offers a theoretical intervention into the normative ideals of public space that are deeply rooted in Western urbanism. It disrupts the binaries of presence/absence, inclusion/exclusion by presenting a series of case studies that vividly convey the complexity and vicissitude of grassroots...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Qian, Junxi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Singapore : Springer Singapore , 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schlagworte:
ISBN:9789811059902
Online-Zugang: Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction
  • Public Space: Ideals, Predicaments, Practices
  • Public Space Beyond the West: Practices of Publicness and the Socio-Spatial Entanglement
  • Performing the Public Man: Mapping Culture and Identities in China's Grassroots Leisure Class
  • Closeted Heterotopia: Public Space, Gay Sexuality and Self-disciplining Subject in People's Park
  • From Performance to Politics? Constructing Public and Counter-public in the Singing of Red Songs
  • No Right to the Street: Motorcycle Taxi, Discourse Production and the Regulation of Unruly Mobility
  • Conclusion.