Infrastructural Urbanism in Contemporary China
Volunteering, Infrastructures and Civic Imaginations
This book examines how Chinese citizens negotiate their everyday experiences with urban spaces, improved city infrastructure, and an increasingly tight surveillance regime through volunteering.
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| ISBN/EAN | 9789087285098 |
| Auteur | Ka-Ming Wu |
| Uitgever | Universiteit Leiden hodn Leiden Universi |
| Taal | Engels |
| Uitvoering | Gebonden in harde band |
| Pagina's | 170 |
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Ka-ming Wu is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a cultural anthropologist of contemporary China, and her work is interdisciplinary in approach at the intersection of Cultural Studies, Anthropology and China Studies. Ka-ming’s first monograph is Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism (UIP 2015). Her second book Feiping Shenghuo: Lajichang De Jingji, Shequn Yu Kongjian (CUHK 2016) (Living with Waste: Economies, Communities and Spaces of Waste Collectors in China) discusses the socio-cultural impacts of waste. Ka-ming’s research and scholarship have developed in concomitance with the field of environmental humanities, with waste studies and critical urban studies as the major pillars.
