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...
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Springer Nature Singapore
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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