Suchergebnisse

1. Indigenizing the colonial city : the Ceylonese transformation of nineteenth-century Colombo -- 2. Feminizing the white male city : women gaining access to colonial Colombo -- 3. Spaces of survival : people's adaptation of a war zone in Sri Lanka -- 4. From resisting to familiarizing impositions : living in the world heritage site at Galle Fort, Sri Lanka / with Sanjeewani Habarakada -- 5. Beginning spaces : young people's struggles for dwellings in Tashkent, Uzbekistan / with Hikoyat Slimova -- 6. Spaces of recovery : rebuilding lives after the tsunami in Kalametiya -- 7. Protecting the habitat : redevelopment, illegibility, and the strength of Dharavi -- 8. Spaces of modernity : Daanchi between vernacular and modern / with Gaurab Kc -- 9. Everyday building : the production of the middle-class built-environment in Gangtok, India / with Sweata Pradhan -- 10. People's neighborhood center : Handiya in Sri Lanka / with Nirmani Liyanage -- 11. Conclusions : production of social space : from coping with provided and imposed spaces to creating their own.

"Draws attention to how Asians produce their contemporary urban practices, identities and spaces as part of, resisting, responding to and avoiding larger global and national processes. The individual chapters illustrate that "global" spaces are more (trans)local, traditional environments are more modern, and Asian spaces are better defined than acknowledged. The aim is to develop room for understandings of Asian cities from Asian standpoints, especially acknowledging how Asians observe, interpret, understand, and create space in their cities"--

In between and besides official plan-making, ordinary people produce more quantity and variety of spaces than the authorities and professionals. They both adapt to and adjust extant spaces for their daily activities and cultural practices, thus producing lived spaces out of abstract space. Yet we know very little about these basic space-making processes. This article aims to acknowledge and `understand' the processes of familiarizing space employed by ordinary people to create milieus that can support their everyday activities and cultural practices. Relying on subjects' vantage points of critique, it examines the space-making processes of four social actors in late 19th-century Colombo, then Ceylon, now Sri Lanka.

Anuradhapura, the most ancient and revered Buddhist city in Sri Lanka, underwent a major transformation at the turn of the 20th century. By analyzing the complex interplay of nationalism, religion, and colonialism, and paying special attention to local agency, this article examines how the local leaders of the Buddhist revival movement brought the ancient city into the center of the Sinhala-Buddhist universe. They struggled against the colonial archeologization and museumization of Anuradhapura, especially where highly significant Buddhist monuments are located, and to eliminate non-Buddhist activities from the sacred city. Simultaneously, they fought against the continuing dominance of the Buddhist order established in the last native kingdom (Kandy-based Up-Country) which fell in 1815. Combined with the rise of the Low-Country elite, the restructuring of Ceylon that followed displaced both Kandy and the colonial capital of Colombo, making them find accommodation in the new Sinhala-Buddhist spatiality defined by Anuradhapura's centrality.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Marking Times and Territories -- I FIGURING GENDERS IN THE COLONY AND NATION: NATIVE AND FOREIGN -- Designing Woman, Designing North Borneo -- The Cordon Sanitaire: Mobility and Space in the Regulation of Colonial Prostitution -- Feminizing the City: Gender and Space in Colonial Colombo -- Failure of the Imaginary: Gendered Excess of the Indonesian Nation -- Gender, Paradoxical Space, and Critical Spectatorship in Vietnamese Film: The Works of Dang Nhat Minh -- II TRANSPORTING GENDERS BETWEEN THE VILLAGE AND CITY: REPRESENTATIONS AND RESISTANCES -- Traveling High and Low: Verticality, Social Position, and the Making of Pahari Genders -- Nurturing, Gender Ideologies, and Bangkok's Foodscape -- Place and Displacement: Figuring the Thai Village in an Age of Rural Development -- The City between the Global State: Architecture and the People in Singapore's Gendered Imaginations -- III GENDERING LOCAL-GLOBAL CIRCUITS: LABOR, CAPITAL, AND SUBJECTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE -- South Asian Women in the Gulf: Families and Futures Reconfigured -- Diasporic Alienness and Belonging: Selected Indian-American Cultural Expressions -- Jewish Diaspora through Colonial Spaces: Negotiating Identity and Forging Community -- Unruly Subjects: Cornelia Sorabji and Ravinder Randhawa -- Immigrant Dreams and Nightmares: South Asian Domestic Workers in North America in a Time of Global Mobility -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index