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Cultural Politics (cultural + politics)
Selected AbstractsAESTHETICS AND CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE AGE OF DREYFUS: MAURICE DENIS'S HOMAGE TO CÉZANNEART HISTORY, Issue 5 2007KATHERINE MARIE KUENZLIArticle first published online: 12 DEC 200 This article examines the alliance between painterly modernism and right-wing politics in France at the height of the Dreyfus Affair. Political struggles took on an aesthetic dimension in the cultural battles waged around 1900. Maurice Denis's monumental group portrait Homage to Cézanne (1900) serves as the focus of my inquiry. This painting is often cited and reproduced in histories of French modernism, but has yet to be examined within its historical and political moment. Although Homage does not directly reference contemporary political events, Denis's formal and compositional choices in Homage were informed by Adrien Mithouard's right-wing nationalist cultural politics. [source] Conditional Belonging: Farm Workers and the Cultural Politics of Recognition in ZimbabweDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 1 2008Blair Rutherford ABSTRACT This article examines Zimbabwean land politics and the study of rural interventions, including agrarian reform, more broadly, using the analytical framework of territorialized ,modes of belonging' and their ,cultural politics of recognition'. Modes of belonging are the routinized discourses, social practices and institutional arrangements through which people make claims for resources and rights, the ways through which they become ,incorporated' in particular places. In these spatialized forms of power and authority, particular cultural politics of recognition operate; these are the cultural styles of interaction that become privileged as proper forms of decorum and morality informing dependencies and interdependencies. The author traces a hegemonic mode of belonging identified as ,domestic government', put in place on European farms in Zimbabwe's colonial period, and shows how it was shaped by particular political and economic conjunctures in the first twenty years of Independence after 1980. Domestic government provided a conditional belonging for farm workers in terms of claims to limited resources on commercial farms while positioning them in a way that made them marginal citizens in the nation at large. This is the context for the behaviour of land-giving authorities which have actively discriminated against farm workers during the politicized and violent land redistribution processes that began in 2000. Most former farm workers are now seeking other forms of dependencies, typically more precarious and generating fewer resources and services than they had accessed on commercial farms, with their own particular cultural politics of recognition, often tied to demonstrating support to the ruling political party. [source] From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America by Vicki L. Ruiz The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory by Catherine S. RamírezGENDER & HISTORY, Issue 2 2010STEPHANIE LEWTHWAITE No abstract is available for this article. [source] Crisis, Identity, and Social Distinction: Cultural Politics of Food, Taste, and Consumption in Late Colonial BengalJOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY, Issue 3 2006SRIRUPA PRASAD It analyzes how the Bengali middle class, the bhadralok, attempted to construct a "doxa" of gastronomy in order to subsume a dominant position for itself and to classify hierarchically other classes and social groups. The aspirations of this class as the future guardians of an incipient nation were in reality a politics of self-identity, which was based on ideas of a cultural exclusivity. This politics of self-identity for the Bengali middle class were inextricably inter-woven with issues of modernity, nationalism, and colonialism. Through my analysis, I stress the importance of the "historical" or the "collective", particularly in the context of formation of the bhadralok, as a dominant class. [source] Critical Therapeutics: Cultural Politics and Clinical Reality in Two Eating Disorder Treatment CentersMEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Issue 4 2007Rebecca J. Lester Recent studies suggest that eating disorders are increasing in Mexico and that this seems to correspond with Mexico's push to modernization. In this respect, Mexico exemplifies the acculturation hypothesis of eating disorders, namely, that anorexia and bulimia are culture-bound syndromes tied to postindustrial capitalist development and neoliberalist values, and that their appearance elsewhere is indicative of acculturation to those values. Available evidence for this claim, however, is often problematic. On the basis of five years of comparative fieldwork in eating disorder clinics in Mexico City and a small Midwestern city in the United States, I reframe this as an ethnographic question by examining how specific clinical practices at each site entangle global diagnostic categories with local social realities in ways that problematize existing epistemologies about culture and illness. In this regard, debates about acculturation and the global rise of eating disorders foreground issues of central epistemological and practical importance to contemporary medical anthropology more generally. [source] Crossing, Creolization, and the African Roots of American CultureAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 3 2006HARRIET JOSEPH OTTENHEIMER Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm and Blues. Stuart L. Goosman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 291 pp. Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race. Maureen Mahon. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004. 317 pp. Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture. John Szwed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. 283 pp. [source] Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural PoliticsAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2004KAREN L. KELSKY Minority Rules: The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics. Louisa Schein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. 365 pp. [source] Juki Girls, Good Girls: Gender and Cultural Politics in Sri Lanka's Global Garment Industry by Caitrin LynchAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2009JEANNE MARECEK No abstract is available for this article. [source] Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto RicoAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 4 2000Kirk Dombrowski Sponsored Identities: Cultural Politics in Puerto Rico. Arlene Davila. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1997. xvii. 301 pp., figures, notes, bibliography, index. [source] Monstrous Ecology: John Steinbeck, Ecology, and American Cultural PoliticsTHE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 4 2005Lloyd Willis First page of article [source] Illegitimate Killers: The Symbolic Ecology and Cultural Politics of Coyote-Hunting Tournaments in Addison County, VermontANTHROPOLOGY & HUMANISM, Issue 2 2009Marc A. BoglioliArticle first published online: 6 NOV 200 SUMMARY Although I have conducted ethnographic research on hunting in central Vermont since 1996, one important issue has remained conspicuously absent from my field notes: organized hunting protest. That all changed one cold February day in 2005 as protesters from a home-grown animal rights group stood along a country road in Whiting, Vermont, to voice their opposition to the first annual Howlin' Hills Coyote Hunt. This coyote-hunting tournament was characterized by a broad assortment of local residents,including hunters,as a morally corrupt departure from traditional hunting ethics and from that day forward Addison County has been caught up in a social drama that may forever change the face of hunting in Vermont. As deep philosophical differences were revealed between not only hunters and antihunters, but between hunters themselves, a small window opened for a more general moral critique of hunting. Drawing on testimony from hunters, animal rights activists, Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife personnel, and my own experiences at coyote tournaments, I explain the perspectives of the various actors in this drama as they struggle to define the meaning and ethical place of hunting in the 21st century. [Keywords: human,animal relations, symbolic ecology, hunting, rural America, coyotes] [source] Carbon Nullius and Racial Rule: Race, Nature and the Cultural Politics of Forest Carbon in CanadaANTIPODE, Issue 2 2009Andrew Baldwin Abstract:, Critical geographers have paid remarkably scant attention to issues of climate change, even less so to forest carbon management policy. Building on geographic debate concerning the ontological production of nature and race, this paper argues that at stake in the climate change debate are not simply questions of energy geopolitics or green production. Also at issue in the climate debate are powerful questions of identity, the national form and race. This paper considers how a particular slice of the climate debate , forest carbon management discourse pertaining to Canada's boreal forest , enacts a political geography of racial difference, one that seeks to accommodate an imagined mode of traditional aboriginal life to the exigencies of global climate change mitigation and, importantly, to a logic of global capital now well into its ecological phase. [source] Transatlantic Cultural Politics in the late 1950s: the Leaders and Specialists Grant ProgramART HISTORY, Issue 4 2003Nancy Jachec Using recently declassified US State Department documents from the Leaders and Specialists Grant Program (LSGP), this article examines American Abstract Expressionism's success in Western Europe within the context of Euro-American foreign policy, and specifically the promotion of the European Union in the late 1950s. Our current understanding of the politics of Abstract Expressionism tends to assume that Europeans were passive in the face of American cultural expansion, as well as to overlook the specific policy objectives that may have been pursued by the individuals and governments involved in the international cultural exchanges which yielded the exhibitions Jackson Pollock 1912,1956 and The New American Painting, which are widely held to mark the emergence of a world-class American culture. This article argues that the success of these shows was in fact the result of the efforts of European and American cultural figures involved in the LSGP, an educational exchange programme administered by the State Department and working through the pro-American European Movement to promote gesture painting as an Atlanticist cultural practice. [source] ,A Natural and Voluntary Dependence': The Royal Academy of San Carlos and the Cultural Politics of Art Education in Mexico City, 1786,1797BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 3 2010SUSAN DEANS-SMITH In this article, I explore the controversies that characterised the foundational years of the Royal Academy of San Carlos of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Mexico City (1786,1797). They provide provocative insights into questions of competing agendas and ambitions among the artists and bureaucrats of the royal academy. They also illuminate contemporary understandings about the hierarchical relationships between a metropolitan power, Spain, and its American colonies and their visual culture and artistic production, which mirror broader political hierarchies and relationships of power and subordination. [source] Cultural Politics, Communal Resistance and Identity in Andean Irrigation DevelopmentBULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 3 2005Rutgerd Boelens This article uses two case studies to illustrate how Andean irrigation development and management emerges from a hybrid mix of local community rules and the changing political forms and ideological forces of hegemonic states. Some indigenous water-control institutions are with us today because they were consonant with the extractive purposes of local elites and Inca, Spanish and post-independence Republican states. These states often appropriated and standardised local water-management rules, rights and rituals in order to gain control over the surplus produced by these irrigation systems. However, as we show in the case of two communities in Ecuador and Peru, many of these same institutions are reappropriated and redirected by local communities to counteract both classic ,exclusion-oriented' and modern ,inclusion-oriented' water and identity politics. In this way, they resist subordination, discrimination and the control of local water management by rural elites or state actors. [source] Rubber Erasures, Rubber Producing Rights: Making Racialized Territories in West Kalimantan, IndonesiaDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 1 2009Nancy Lee Peluso ABSTRACT This article makes connections between often-disparate literatures on property, violence and identity, using the politics of rubber growing in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, as an example. It shows how rubber production gave rise to territorialities associated with and productive of ethnic identities, depending on both the political economies and cultural politics at play in different moments. What it meant to be Chinese and Dayak in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, as well as how categories of subjects and citizens were configured in the two respective periods, differentially affected both the formal property rights and the means of access to rubber and land in different parts of West Kalimantan. However, incremental changes in shifting rubber production practices were not the only means of producing territory and ethnicity. The author argues that violence ultimately played a more significant role in erasing prior identity-based claims and establishing the controls of new actors over trees and land and their claims to legitimate access or ,rightfulness'. Changing rubber production practices and reconfigurations of racialized territories and identity-based property rights are all implicated in hiding the violence. [source] Conditional Belonging: Farm Workers and the Cultural Politics of Recognition in ZimbabweDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 1 2008Blair Rutherford ABSTRACT This article examines Zimbabwean land politics and the study of rural interventions, including agrarian reform, more broadly, using the analytical framework of territorialized ,modes of belonging' and their ,cultural politics of recognition'. Modes of belonging are the routinized discourses, social practices and institutional arrangements through which people make claims for resources and rights, the ways through which they become ,incorporated' in particular places. In these spatialized forms of power and authority, particular cultural politics of recognition operate; these are the cultural styles of interaction that become privileged as proper forms of decorum and morality informing dependencies and interdependencies. The author traces a hegemonic mode of belonging identified as ,domestic government', put in place on European farms in Zimbabwe's colonial period, and shows how it was shaped by particular political and economic conjunctures in the first twenty years of Independence after 1980. Domestic government provided a conditional belonging for farm workers in terms of claims to limited resources on commercial farms while positioning them in a way that made them marginal citizens in the nation at large. This is the context for the behaviour of land-giving authorities which have actively discriminated against farm workers during the politicized and violent land redistribution processes that began in 2000. Most former farm workers are now seeking other forms of dependencies, typically more precarious and generating fewer resources and services than they had accessed on commercial farms, with their own particular cultural politics of recognition, often tied to demonstrating support to the ruling political party. [source] THE BORDER CROSSED US: EDUCATION, HOSPITALITY POLITICS, AND THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE "ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT"EDUCATIONAL THEORY, Issue 3 2009Dennis CarlsonArticle first published online: 6 OCT 200 In this essay, Dennis Carlson explores some of the implications of Derrida's "hospitality politics" in helping articulate a progressive response to a rightist cultural politics in the United States of policing national, linguistic, and other borders. He applies the concept of hospitality politics to a critical analysis of the social construction of the "problem" of "illegal immigrants" in U.S. public schools. This entails a discussion of three interrelated discourses and practices of hospitality: a universalistic discourse of philosophical and religious principles, a legalistic-juridical discourse, and a discourse and practice grounded in the ethos of everyday life. Derrida suggested that a democratic cultural politics must interweave these three discourses and also recognize the limitations of each of them. Moreover, a democratic cultural politics must be most firmly rooted in the praxis of ethos, and in the ethical claims of openness to the other. [source] English, literacy, rhetoric: changing the project?ENGLISH IN EDUCATION, Issue 1 2006Bill Green Abstract In this paper I begin to trace two movements in the curriculum history and cultural politics of English teaching: on the one hand, a shift from ,literature' to ,literacy', as organizing principles for the field, and on the other, from ,language' to ,rhetoric'. I do so within a particular understanding of history, as embracing past present and future dimensions. My aim is two-fold: to open up questions about the subject's historical legacy, and to draw attention to some of the emerging challenges and prospects for English teaching today and tomorrow. [source] ,Aus so prosaischen Dingen wie Kartoffeln, Straßen, Traktoren werden poetische Dinge!': Brecht, Sinn und Form, and Strittmatter's KatzgrabenGERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS, Issue 1 2003Matthew Philpotts This article takes as its starting,point an essay written by Bertolt Brecht in praise of the GDR playwright Erwin Strittmatter and his Socialist Realist drama, Katzgraben, which was staged by the Berliner Ensemble in May 1953. Published in the late summer of 1953 in Sinn und Form, this rather neglected essay is of significance because Brecht adopts in it a highly orthodox GDR position at a time when he was otherwise making dissenting interventions in GDR cultural politics. Publication of the essay, at a time when political pressure on Brecht had eased, is evidence that his interest in Strittmatter's play was not merely a short,term tactical manoeuvre to placate the SED regime. Rather, it was part of a consistent belief in the necessity of demonstrating what Brecht perceived to be the genuine achievements of the GDR. The events of 17 June, and the fascist mindset which Brecht saw underlying them, only served to reinforce this necessity in his mind. Brecht's pre,occupation with Katzgraben has a broader significance in highlighting the tendency in Brecht criticism to over,privilege tactical explanations for his behaviour in the GDR and in demonstrating that his cultural,political dissent was vitiated all the time by consistent ideological assent. [source] The difference that difference makes in the mobilization of workersINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 4 2002Nancy Ettlinger Drawing conceptually from feminist, post,development, cultural politics and radical political science literatures, this essay integrally relates differences among contexts (relationally defined) and people. I suggest that prospects for the mobilization of workers across space requires critical thinking about difference, entailing recognition of different work experiences associated with different industrial processes and avenues of exploitation, as well as possible friction among different groups of people across axes of difference. Although frictions of difference related both to economic and non,economic logics may pose complex problems for connecting workers within and across space, I argue that inclusive organizing strategies are critical to achieving pervasive and long,run social change. Tirant ces concepts de documents sur le post,féminisme et le post,développement, et de textes de politique culturelle et de science politique fondamentale, cet essai associe toutes les différences de contextes (définis en termes de relation) et d'individus. Il suggère que mobiliser des salariés à travers l'espace nécessite une réflexion critique sur la différence, ce qui implique la reconnaissance d'expériences professionnelles diverses combinées à des approches et processus industriels d'exploitation différents, ainsi que d'éventuels points de friction entre divers groupes de personnes d'un bout à l'autre des axes de différence. Même si ces points de friction, liés à une logique tant économique que non,économique, sont susceptibles de créer d'importantes difficultés pour relier des salariés dans l'espace, il faut appliquer des stratégies d'organisation globales si l'on veut obtenir un changement social capable de s'imprégner durablement. [source] The Muenster City LibraryJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 3 2007Place, The Politics of Identity This article examines the understanding of territory, place, and identity as dynamic and sometimes disruptive processes and critiques the cultural politics that attempt to shape and hinder these processes in favor of clear and often nostalgic definitions. Controlling the appearance of the physical environment to ensure its correlation to history and the dominant cultural identity is one such powerful cultural political practice. Elaborating upon data collected from questionnaires, interviews, and a cognitive mapping exercise in an original case study of Muenster and its City Library conducted in 2001, this work demonstrates that place and identity are neither locked into nor the result of simply the appearances of already existing built forms, but are deeper, dynamic, and generative forces that have produced historical appearances and can produce others, dependent on time, context, and the people who engage a place. [source] State-led Democratic Politics and Emerging Forms of Indigenous Leadership Among the Ye'kwana of the Upper OrinocoJOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2006Matthew LauerArticle first published online: 28 JUN 200 En este artículo analizo la política Ye'kwana del Alto Orinoco para revelar como sus nociones de liderazgo, autoridad, y comunidad han sido transformadas con la intrusión política nacional de Venezuela. Comparo las respuestas de indigenistas, misioneros, políticos regionales, e indígenas Ye'kwana sobre la ascensión al poder político de Jaime Turón, un líder polémico Ye'kwana y alcalde del municipio Alto Orinoco. Sostengo que la política de descentralización y democratización conducida por muchos estados de América Latina son procesos que simultáneamente excluyen e incorporan a líderes indígenas y plantean desafíos complicados para aquellos que buscan legitimidad entre los pueblos indígenas y organizaciones indigenistas. Ésta situación es especialmente pertinente al caso de Venezuela, un país petrolero donde líderes indígenas entran a la esfera política nacional como políticos elegidos con presupuestos municipales relativamente grandes bajo su control y no como lideres asociados a federaciones interétnicas. Este estudio revela los aspectos emergentes del liderazgo indígena contemporáneo y los criterios híbridos necesarios para la legitimidad política entre indígenas Amazónicas. Además, agrega a una comprensión más plural y multi-vocal de la política indígena en América Latina. PALABRAS CLAVES: indígenas Amazónicas, política de etnicidad, liderazgo, cambio política,Venezuela. KEYWORDS: Amazonian Indians, cultural politics, leadership, political change,Venezuela. [source] Ongoing Struggles: Mayas and Immigrants in Tourist Era TulumJOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2002Ana M. Juárez In Quintana Roo, Mexico, an area once controlled by Maya descendants of the mid,19th -century Caste Wars of the Yucatan, the global tourist economy has led to radical changes. This study analyzes relations between local Mayas and Yucatec and Mexican immigrants in Tulum Pueblo, located south of Cancun and just outside a popular archeological site. Struggles between Mayas and immigrants have centered on cultural, marital and religious practices and physical control of the town's central church and plaza, eventually resulting in the establishment of dual, competing town centers. Questions of cultural politics and the control of space continue to be central to contemporary political movements around the world. This research shows that the fashioning, of cultural places and practices is inherently tied to materially based differences in power and inequality differences are minimized when few disparities in power exist, but conflicts over places and identities are maximized when power differentials increase. [source] Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on the Indigenous Rights Movement in Africa and the AmericasAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 4 2002Dorothy L. Hodgson Using ethnographic case studies, these "In Focus" articles explore the indigenous rights movements in two regions, Africa and the Americas, where the histories, agendas, and dynamics of the movements are at once similar and different. They consider a range of relevant questions about the politics of representation, recognition, resources, and rights as these movements engage shifting political and economic landscapes; transnational discourses, alliances, and organizations; and the complicated cultural politics of inclusion and exclusion invoked by the term indigenous. As such, they offer a critical, comparative perspective on the issues of culture, power, representation, and difference inherent in the complicated alliances, articulations, and tensions that have produced and transformed the transnational indigenous rights movement. This introduction provides a brief history of the movement, highlights some major themes in previous anthropological work, reviews the insights of the section articles, and explores some of the ways in which anthropologists have engaged with the movement. [Keywords: indigenous peoples, social movements, cultural politics, ethnography] [source] Museums: Adult education as cultural politicsNEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION, Issue 127 2010Carmel Borg This chapter explores the potential of museums as sites for critical "public pedagogy." It foregrounds the role of adult educators as co-interrogators with adult learners of what is generally perceived as politically innocent and neutral knowledge. [source] Titus Andronicus and the cultural politics of translation in early modern EnglandRENAISSANCE STUDIES, Issue 3 2005Liz Oakley-Brown This essay argues that the material invocation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in The Most Lamentable Roman Tragedie of Titus Andronicus (c. 1594) initiates an interrogation of the cultural politics of translation in early modern England. By comparing Shakespeare's play with Edward Ravenscroft's seventeenth-century revision, Titus Andronicus, or the Rape of Lavinia (first performed 1678, first published 1687), the discussion focuses on ways in which the processes and products of translation construct the gendered subject. [source] Of crustacean blood and ant infection: Life in the migration exclusion zone, Christmas Island, AustraliaTHE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2009Simone Dennis This paper is framed by the cultural politics of nationhood in contemporary Australia and particularly by the ways in which the nation has sought to produce borders that have manifested themselves as altered cartographic boundaries and exclusion zones. The paper itself is concerned with life on Christmas Island, and is focused on the ways in which multiethnic Christmas Island locals use blood metaphors drawn from the Island's native Christmas Island red crabs and alien, predatory yellow ants, to articulate patterns of human movement and migration into island space. The metaphors reveal coalescences between the body of the self, the other, nature, and the island place. I explore these coalescences to present a picture of migration and movement from the perspective of those who live within the migration exclusion zone. [source] The Cultural Politics of Mixed-Income Schools and Housing: A Racialized Discourse of Displacement, Exclusion, and ControlANTHROPOLOGY & EDUCATION QUARTERLY, Issue 3 2009Pauline LipmanArticle first published online: 9 SEP 200 In this article, I examine the contested and racially coded cultural politics of creating mixed-income schools in mixed-income communities. Policymakers claim deconcentrating low-income people will reduce poverty and improve education. However, based on activist research in Chicago, I argue these policies are grounded in "culture of poverty" theories that pathologize Black1urban space. They legitimate displacement and gentrification and further the neoliberal urban agenda while negating that urban communities of color and their schools are spaces of community.[mixed income, race, neoliberalism, cultural politics] [source] Neoliberalism and the Aestheticization of New Middle-Class LandscapesANTIPODE, Issue 2 2009Choon-Piew Pow Abstract:, If according to Terry Eagleton (The Ideology of the Aesthetic 1990:28), the aesthetic is from the start "a contradictory, double-edged concept", how are seemingly innocent acts of viewing and consuming aesthetically pleasing landscapes implicated in the neoliberal politics of urban restructuring? Using contemporary Shanghai as a case study, this paper critically examines the role of the aesthetic in the politics of exclusion and urban segregation in post-Socialist Shanghai where the restructuring and commodification of erstwhile public welfare housing have led to the rapid development of private "middle-class" gated enclaves. A central objective of this paper is to excavate the underlying cultural politics of neoliberalism and demonstrate how the aestheticization of urban spaces in Shanghai has become increasingly intertwined with and accentuated by neoliberal ideologies and exclusionary practices in the city. Imbricated in the pristine neighborhoods of Shanghai's gated communities are the fault lines of social division and class distinction that are rapidly transforming urban China. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||