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Dissent and Cultural Resistance
in Asias Cities

This book documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local flows of capital technology and labour that converge and intersect in some of Asias fastest growing cities. Rather than constructing occupants of the city as simply passive victims of globalisation or urbanisation, it presents ways in which people are using everyday strategies embedded in cultural practice to challenge dominant socio-economic and political forces impacting urban space.

Taking the city as a site of contestation and a stage where social conflicts are played out, the book highlights the connections between urban power and dissent; the nature and impact of resistance; how the spatiality and built environment of the city generate conflict and, conversely, how protagonists use the cityscape to stage their everyday and public dissent.

The contributors explore the conditions, strategies and outcomes of such dissent and forms of cultural resistance, and explore the following themes:

• the impact of urban development, gentrification and ghetto-isation;
• urban counter narratives and the re-imagining of city spaces;
• the role of grassroots activism and social movements;
• cultural resistance in the creation of neighbourhoods and communities;
• the impact of gender, class and the politics of identity on forms of dissent;
• the formation of transgressive spaces.

Complementing established work on Asian cities, social change and transformation in the Asia Pacific and cultural politics in Asia, this work will be of interest to students, researchers and academics in the field of Asian studies, Asian cultural studies, urban geography, urban studies, anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.

Melissa Butcher is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, the Open University, UK.

Selvaraj Velayutham is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Macquarie University, Australia.

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• 14 Dissent and cultural resistance in Asias cities
• Edited by Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham

Dissent and Cultural
Resistance in Asias Cities

Edited by Melissa Butcher and
Selvaraj Velayutham

First published 2009
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009.

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2009 Editorial selection and matter, Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham. Individual chapters, the contributors.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dissent and cultural resistance in Asias cities / edited by
Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham.
p. cm.
1. DissentersAsia. 2. Protest movementsAsia. 3. City and town
lifeAsia. I. Butcher, Melissa, 1966 II. Velayutham, Selvaraj, 1968
HN655.2.S62D57 2009
303.484095091732dc22
2008041593

ISBN 0-203-88015-3 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 10: 0-415-49142-8 (hbk)
ISBN 10: 0-203-88015-3 (ebk)

ISBN 13: 978-0-415-49142-6 (hbk)
ISBN 13: 978-0-203-88015-9 (ebk)

Cover image by Cybermohalla Ensemble

List of figures

The Li home with Zhang Dalis graffiti figure, July 2007

The Li home with its new lawn, during the 2008 summer Olympics

Dialogue, Forbidden City, Beijing 1998

Demolition, Forbidden City, Beijing 1998

Demolition and Dialogue, Chaoyangmenwai Avenue 1998

Migrant housing in Beijing

Timeline depicting development of new towns in Singapore

Movement sequence in a typical HDB new town

The concept of public time, as illustrated by the overlapping of space and schedules

Defiant practices

Women sell secondhand clothing on a Baguio City street during their allotted 12.00 noon to 1.00 p.m. time period for vending, 2008

A Baguio City street vendor sells boiled peanuts and cooked rice cakes wrapped in banana leaves, 2008

Images of the 50th Anniversary poster

Online reporting of the Hindraf Rally

Traders at a street-side meeting

A trader after his arrest at a demonstration

Carrying space

Waiting at a Mumbai bus stop

Hanging out at Marine Drive, Mumbai

List of contributors

Anne-Marie Broudehoux is assistant professor at the School of Design in the University of Quebec at Montreal. She is the author of The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing (2004), which was awarded the 20042005 International Planning History Society book prize in 2006. She is currently working on a new book on the socio-spatial impacts of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Melissa Butcher is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, the Open University, UK. The focus of her research is the impact of transnational mobility on urban space, cultural change and conflict, with an emphasis on questions of identity and belonging. Before joining the Open University, she taught at universities in Ireland and Australia. She presents and writes regularly on issues relating to globalisation, migration, popular culture and global human resources management.

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