Full Description
This interdisciplinary work discusses the construction, maintenance, evolution, and destruction of home and community spaces, which are central to the development of social cohesion. By examining how people throughout the world form different communities to establish a sense of home, the volume surveys the formation of identity within the context of rapid development, global and domestic neoliberal and political governmental policies, and various societal pressures. The themes of cooperation, conflict, inclusion, exclusion, and balance require negotiation between different actors (e.g., the state, professional developers, social activists, and residents) as homes and communities develop.
Contents
Part I1. The Home-making Trajectories and Challenges of Chinese Immigrants in Canada2. Latino Experience in the Barrios of the South Bronx, New York City: the Other Side of the American Dream3. Cultural Memory in Mainland Immigrants' Settlement of Taiwan: a Case Study of Zuoying Naval Veterans' VillagesPart II: Preservation, Reconstruction, and Development4. Homes in Transition: Youths' Experiences in Singapore's Rental Housing5. Lessons from Post-disaster Home Reconstruction: Dujiangyan City, China6. The Narrative Construction of (Fang-Nu) - an Urban Identity in Post-Modern China7. Challenges of Heritage Development Projects in Macau and Penang: Preservation and Anti-preservationPart III: Collaboration, Belonging, and National Identity8. Longing and Belonging in Greater Accra: Making Home and Queer Community9. Home Formation and the Use of Violence in Zimbabwe10. Building Consensus?: Russian Nationalism as Social Cohesion and Division11. Epilogue: Transforming Catacombs and the City of Paris: The Spatial Relationship between the home for the Living and the Dead
