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Building The City elaborates new critical insights into the everyday lives of migrant workers in cities around the world.
Sommario
1. Introduction 2. Building context: territorial, relational, comparative 3. Traversing precarity 4. Mundane (im)mobilities 5. Undoing
manual labour 6. The labour of love 7. Embodied, emotional, and affective counter-topographies 8. Consumption, pleasure, and leisure 9. Fashioned and sexual identities 10. Digital lives 11. Epilogue
Info autore
Mark Jayne is Professor of Human Geography and Deputy-Dean of the International School of Geography at Sun Yat-Sen University, The People's Republic of China. Mark is an urban social and cultural geographer who has published 11 books and over 100 journal articles, book chapters, and official reports. Mark is author of
Cities and Consumption (Routledge, 2005), co-author of
Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces (Routledge, 2011),
Childhood, Family, Alcohol (Routledge, 2016) and
Building the City: Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers (Routledge, 2025). Mark has also edited
City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City (Routledge, 2004),
Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis (Routledge, 2006),
Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities (Routledge, 2012),
Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2016), and
Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2018).
Wu Siying is a doctoral student in the Institute of Geography at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland whose critical interests include mobilities, migration, affect, decolonising geographical imaginations and archives. Siying's research is focused on Anglo-Chinese relations and the post second world war forced deportation of Chinese seafarers from Liverpool.
Wu Chenhui is a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Tourism Management at Sun Yat-Sen University, The People's Republic of China. Chenhui's scholarly endeavours are focused on heritage, migration, and maritime studies with papers published in journals including
Social & Cultural Geography, and
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
