Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 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
Summary
This book seeks document urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local flows that converge and intersect in some of Asias fastest growing cities
