Choon-Piew Pow

Gated Communities in China (eBook, ePUB)

Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the nature and dynamics of gated communities within the specificities of reform Shanghai, a city that arguably has been at the forefront of China's new urban/consumer revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134020966
• Artikelnr.: 42641548

Autorenporträt

Pow Choon-Piew is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Gated Communities and the Lure of the Good Life 2. Making
Middle-Class Spaces: Privilege, Territoriality and the Moral Geographies of
Exclusion 3. Urban Reform, the New Middle-Class and the Emergence of Gated
Communities in Shanghai 4. Imagineering Suburbia: Contested Representations
of the Chinese Dream Home 5.Seeking Privacy and Seclusion: Private
Property, Individualism and Neoliberal Subjectivities 6. Maintaining Order
and Civility: Purified Spaces and the Paradox of Gated Living 7. Beyond the
Gates: A Geographical-moral Critique 8. Conclusion