Re-visioning the Public in Post-reform Urban China Poetics and Politics in Guangzhou /

• Main Author: Qian, Junxi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Human geography.; Cultural studies.; Culture.; Human Geography.; Cultural Studies.; Sociology of Culture.

This book offers a theoretical intervention into the normative ideals of public space that are deeply rooted in Western urbanism. It disrupts the binaries of presence/absence, inclusion/exclusion by presenting a series of case studies that vividly convey the complexity and vicissitude of grassroots...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Public Space: Ideals, Predicaments, Practices
• Public Space Beyond the West: Practices of Publicness and the Socio-Spatial Entanglement
• Performing the Public Man: Mapping Culture and Identities in China's Grassroots Leisure Class
• Closeted Heterotopia: Public Space, Gay Sexuality and Self-disciplining Subject in People's Park
• From Performance to Politics? Constructing Public and Counter-public in the Singing of Red Songs
• No Right to the Street: Motorcycle Taxi, Discourse Production and the Regulation of Unruly Mobility
• Conclusion.