Affiliation:
1. CEFC Hong Kong, the journal China Perspectives, jaudin@cefc.com.hk
Abstract
This chapter studies the politics of everyday life and social change in the
Beijing hutong (胡同) through an ethnographic lens. Unlike the political
experience of the urban middle class in new housing compounds, the
hutong presents specific localized power configurations inherited from a
long-term evolution of everyday social interactions with the urban fabric.
Coping with the alteration of the social fabric – the loss of local references
in the face of growing anonymity – hutong residents invent tactics of
resistance through discrete ‘arts of making’ to resist the biopolitics of
urban redevelopment, while at the same time, participate in the official,
state-led, neighbourhood political life in the context of growing anonymity.
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
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