Gated communities in China class, privilege and the moral politics of the good life

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pow, Choon-Piew, 1974- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge 2009.
Series:Routledge Pacific Rim geographies (2007) ; 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: gated communities and the lure of the good life
  • Making middle-class spaces: privilege, territoriality and the moral geographies of exclusion
  • Urban reform, the new middle-class and the emergence of gated communities in Shanghai
  • Imagineering suburbia: contested representations of the Chinese dream home
  • Seeking privacy and seclusion: private property, individualism and neoliberal subjectivities
  • Maintaining order and civility: purified spaces and the paradox of gated living
  • Beyond the gates: a geographical-moral critique.