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example, the Manchester bombing of 1996 (discussed earlier) was marked with a simple plaque on a postbox that survived the blast. Urban redevelopment was deemed sufficient for the accomplishment of the recovery, without a need for memorialisation. Similarly, the IRA’s Brighton hotel bombing that targeted the ruling Conservative Party’s conference of 1984 and nearly assassinated Prime Minister Thatcher was
ambiance of temple settings generated by the contrasting environments afforded by Singapore’s urban redevelopment in a rich, Chinese-majority city-state with a comparatively less developed and unregulated ethnic Chinese minority in an urban township, this sub-chapter will instead focus on communal rituals and community events. My intention is to convey how an emotional attachment to Yinfu Tan’s Di Ya Pek, underpinned by reciprocity and debt, has contributed to the generation of a close-knit ethno-religious community. Recognition of this temple
resemble ‘everyday forms of resistance’ against government-sanctioned urban redevelopment. Returning to the ‘Master Plan’ for the Republic of Singapore, it has undergone seven reviews since it was first approved by the government in August 1958, and multiple amendments have been, and continue to be, made. The 1972 amendments allowing for the destruction of cemeteries ultimately led to the following chain of events – events which provided the societal catalyst for the transfiguring hybridisation observed in 2017’s cemetery rituals
conditions and the shaping of workers’ identity against the backdrop of the labour–capital conflict. Acts revolving around the site of space are related to urban redevelopment, discursive spatial marginalisation and forms of spatial activism aimed at addressing the rural–urban dichotomy. While these three sites are separated for analytical reasons, they are often imbricative and mutually reinforcing in the migrant workers’ claims discussed in this book. In Part I of this book ( Chapter 1 ) I focus on the structural aspects of citizenship in China. In a
the increased security environment in the region, it also suggests that, contrary to PRC rhetoric, there was no violent ‘terrorist threat’ to the security of China at this time. However, it was also clear that the situation in the Uyghur 141 ROBERTS 9781526147684 PRINT (MUP).indd 141 11/06/2020 14:12 THE WAR ON THE UYGHURS region was increasingly tense. Han in-migration was expanding, Han-focused urban re-development was dislocating many Uyghurs and removing signs of Uyghur culture from the landscape, and the state was increasingly adopting assimilationist
boutique hotel. 67 Most of the shops and bars that my interviewees describe are now gone, with some exceptions – Lavery's, Queen's Student Union (although it now has a different name), the Ulster Hall – and while public spaces like the Cornmarket still exist, the context of the city around them is indelibly changed. In general it would appear that the little that remains of the punk scene in the built environment of the city has been enlisted into processes of top-down urban redevelopment and rebranding
the 1950s was one of decline and change, in which ‘modern mass production, increasing geographical mobility and urban redevelopment were breaking up traditional working class communities, while the “economic emancipation” of the working class was being bought at the expense of a cultural subjection to the hollow banalities of mass entertainment’. 95 For the theatre and film directors and writers who came to be
, commitment has characterised club activity. 123 The regional cine scene thrived during the 1960s. High membership enabled many groups to average several club productions per year, films often achieving commendation at regional and national level. Early material gained historical value in public film shows. As regional urban redevelopment and modernisation schemes transformed built form and social fabric, films
-winning films. Some themes and debates on suitable subject matter for filming recurred, but editorial comment, features, news and printed correspondence also reveal wider social and cultural changes. Wartime restrictions, changing colonial relations, postwar opportunities, freedoms and concomitant anxieties about concerns as diverse as conservation, Cold War politics, sex, psychosis, public safety, urban redevelopment and the effects
socio-economic hardships and prolonged uncertainties of multi-phased urban redevelopment, Brookes’s films highlight the idea that, for those that lived, worked and played there, these old neighbourhoods were much more than the mean streets perceived by contemporary professionals. Loss and regret underlie scenes that chart how local character, meaning and identity radically alter. Footage of his wife and oldest grandchild as they walk