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Auteur(s) : Yuan, Yan (1969-....)
Titre(s) : A different place in the making [Texte imprimé] : the everyday life practices of Chinese rural migrants in urban villages / Yan Yuan
Publication : Bern : New York : Peter Lang, 2014
Description matérielle : 359 pages ; 23 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 333 - 359)
"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
Sujet(s) : Migrations intérieures -- Chine -- Société
Vie urbaine -- Chine
Géographie humaine -- Chine
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783034314923 (paperback). - ISBN 3034314922 (paperback). - ISBN 9783035107562
(erroné) (ebook)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44373676m
Notice n° :
FRBNF44373676
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