Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia's Cities

Melissa Butcher is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, Open University, UK.Selvaraj Velayutham is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Macquarie University, Australia.

• Introduction: Cultures of Resistance in Asia’s Transforming Cities 1. Seeds of Dissent: The Politics of Resistance to Beijing’s Olympic Redevelopment 2. Negotiating Beijing’s Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 3. Quietly, Quietly, Quietly: Beijing’s Migrant Civil Society Organisations 4. Singapore’s Public Housing Spaces: Alter - ‘native’ Spaces in Transition 5. ‘Talking cock’: Everyday Dissent through Complaint and Humour in Singapore 6. Negotiating Urban Activism: Women, Vending and the Transformation of Streetscapes in the Urban Philippines 7. The Streets of Kuala Lumpur: City-space, ‘Race’ and Civil Disobedience 8. Campaigning Against its Eviction: Local Trade in New ‘world-class’ Delhi 9. Re-writing Delhi: Cultural Resistance and Cosmopolitan Texts 10. Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent

"I find Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities empirically comprehensive, interesting, informative and a must-read for those interested in globalisation, urban conflict and protest. Most importantly, all the chapters raise crucial questions about what constitutes the vision for a better world; to that extent, this book is an engaging critique of exclusionary urban transformations." - Ipsita Chatterjee, Urban Studies, 47(3), March 2010