The power of place contentious politics in twentieth-century Shanghai and Bombay
"The Power of Place Riots, strikes, and protests broke out in the streets of Shanghai and Bombay, renamed Mumbai in 1995, with impressive frequency during the twentieth century. Many of the landmark protests and social movements had close connections with the neighborhoods, workplaces, and civi...
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Cambridge, New York, Port Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore
Cambridge University Press
2019
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The Power of Place Riots, strikes, and protests broke out in the streets of Shanghai and Bombay, renamed Mumbai in 1995, with impressive frequency during the twentieth century. Many of the landmark protests and social movements had close connections with the neighborhoods, workplaces, and civic space of each city. By the late twentieth century, as the political geography of each city changed rapidly with the commodification of urban land, so too did the patterns of political contention. Using a comparative historical lens, Frazier chronicles the political biographies of these two metropolises and leading centers of manufacturing and finance. Debates over ideology, citizenship, and political representation took material form through clashes over housing, jobs, police violence, public space, among much else in the lived experience of urban residents. Frazier puts contemporary debates over informal housing, eviction of inner-city residents, scarcities of manufacturing jobs, and questions of unequal citizenship in illuminating historical context"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 267-284 |
| Beschreibung: | xv, 296 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9781108481311 978-1-108-48131-1 9781108722193 978-1-108-72219-3 |