Money from Nothing explores the dynamics surrounding South Africa's national project of
financial inclusion—dubbed" banking the unbanked"—which aimed to extend credit to black …

Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this
book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China's commodity housing …

Neoliberalism as a hegemonic global ideology and framework of governance has been the
subject of extensive critical analyses in geography and urban studies. Despite the …

The article explores how people in Kunming have interpreted and acted upon food-related
environmental health threats, particularly within the contexts of everyday food shopping. It is …

China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to
very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been …

“My husband doesn't have a head for business,” complained Ngoc, the owner of a children's
clothing stall in Ben Thanh market.“Naturally, it's because he'sa man.” When the women who …

Despite massive changes to its economic policies, China continues to define itself as
socialist; since 1949 and into the present, the Maoist slogan" Serve the People" has been a …

Since the late 1970s, China's move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the
world's fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic …

During the lead-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the censorious attitude that characterized
China's post-1989 official response to contemporary art gave way to a new market-driven …

This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking
about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of …