The Power of Place

Contentious Politics in Twentieth-Century Shanghai and Bombay

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Asia, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
Cover of the book The Power of Place by Mark W. Frazier, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Mark W. Frazier ISBN: 9781108642811
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: May 31, 2019
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Mark W. Frazier
ISBN: 9781108642811
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: May 31, 2019
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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 an illuminating historical context.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 an illuminating historical context.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Ecology of Industrial Pollution by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book From Asian to Global Financial Crisis by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book Transnational Climate Change Governance by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book The Private World of Soviet Scientists from Stalin to Gorbachev by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book Probability, Random Processes, and Statistical Analysis by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book The Fate of Young Democracies by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book Lifetime Disadvantage, Discrimination and the Gendered Workforce by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book Disability and the Good Human Life by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book The Sources of Social Power: Volume 3, Global Empires and Revolution, 1890–1945 by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book Modern Treaty Law and Practice by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book A Primer on String Theory by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book Cancer Pain by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book Travel Narrative and the Ends of Modernity by Mark W. Frazier
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel by Mark W. Frazier
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy