Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Baxstrom, Richard

ISBN 10: 0804758913 / ISBN 13: 9780804758918

Published by Stanford University Press, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia (Cultural Memory in the Present)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804758913
• ISBN 13: 9780804758918
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia is about the transformation of urban space and the reordering of the demographic character of Brickfields, one of the oldest neighborhoods in Kuala Lumpur. Baxstrom offers an ethnographic account of the complex attempts on the part of the state and the community to reconcile techno-rational conceptions of law, development, and city planning with local experiences of place, justice, relatedness, and possibilities for belief in an aggressively changing world. The book combines classic methods of anthropological research and an engagement with the work of theorists such as Gilles Deleuze and Henri Lefebvre, and moves beyond previous studies of Southeast Asian cities by linking larger conceptual issues of ethics, belief, and experience to the concrete trajectories of everyday urban life in the region.

About the Author

Richard Baxstrom holds the position of Lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.