Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities (Hardcover)

Introduction: Cultures of Resistance in Asia’s Transforming Cities Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham  1. Seeds of Dissent: The Politics of Resistance to Beijing’s Olympic Redevelopment Anne-Marie Broudehoux  2. Negotiating Beijing’s Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Maurizio Marinelli  3. Quietly, quietly, quietly: Beijing’s Migrant Civil Society Organisations Jennifer Hsu  4. Singapore’s Public Housing Spaces: Alter - ‘native’ Spaces in Transition Limin Hee  5. ‘Talking cock’: Everyday Dissent through Complaint and Humour in Singapore Selvaraj Velayutham  6. Negotiating Urban Activism: Women, Vending and the Transformation of Streetscapes in the Urban Philippines B. Lynne Milgram  7. The Streets of Kuala Lumpur: City-space, ‘race’ and civil disobedience Yeoh Seng Guan  8. Campaigning Against its Eviction: Local Trade in New ‘world-class’ Delhi Diya Mehra  9. Re-writing Delhi: Cultural Resistance and Cosmopolitan Texts Melissa Butcher  10. Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent Shilpa Phadke, Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan