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sociology into the analytical framework allows macro-level societal stimuli, including nationalism, urban redevelopment, legislative directives, ethnic prejudice and transnational cultural flows, via technologies of religious synthesis, to be connected to specific religious developments, the effects of which can be observed on the micro level, manifested in the ritual and material cultures of each religious landscape. The following example is illustrative of this process. Historically, whips were the first man-made object to cross the sound
synthesis and the inversion of tradition in the context of Confucian and Buddhist influences on contrasting ethical codes in Singapore’s contemporary Underworld tradition. The case-study temples As well as the creation and expansion of Underworld temple networks based on reciprocity by individual tang-ki , and distinctive to Singapore’s religious landscape, ritual connections based on temples’ prior locations pre-urban redevelopment have been constructed in Singapore by the post-relocation generation of tang-ki . This
power has led to cities playing a central role in the global capitalist economy. Urban spaces are not only a location in which wealth, especially intellectual property, is produced; they are also outlets for capitalist accumulation. The process of gentrification and urban redevelopment is part of a broader capitalist project to recirculate wealth via rebuilding and constructing space. As economic power in cities grows, they become central nodes in global capital. The ability to occupy, control, and disrupt these spaces therefore has a ripple effect that impacts the
commonality through their shared sense of ‘local’, ‘Mancunian’ and ‘working-class’ identity. During fieldwork, I explored the effects of urban regeneration, from the perspective of these residents, who remained living in East Manchester through deindustrialisation and numerous waves of urban redevelopment. Camilla Lewis 175 This chapter offers a selection of ethnographic vignettes which reveal some of the complexities of my informants’ experiences. The accounts presented have been chosen as they illustrate some of the specific issues at hand in East Manchester. They are
weighs up the effects of urban redevelopment and governmental promotion of religious harmony as catalysts to unique forms of temple networking and to Tua Di Ya Pek’s far-reaching reinvention to explain why, in Singapore’s contemporary religious landscape, Hell’s enforcers are perceived as the most appropriate deities to approach for assistance both to the living and to the souls of the recently deceased. Chapter 6 connects the Underworld tradition to graveyards through Lunar Seventh Month (Ghost Month) ‘salvation rituals’ performed in
, gentrification or urban redevelopment. Conversely, economic decline, or state disinvestment in particular areas, may create conditions of unemployment, factory closures or inner-city decline. Hence, the uneven articulation of economic and state power – at the macrolevel – geographically differentiates the grievance structures of social movements (Nicholls, 2007). State power is articulated unevenly across space which presents different sets of political opportunities for actors in different locations (Nicholls, 2007). Both between states and within them, geographical
by nearly half from 1975 to 1988, while the number of upscale hotel rooms nearly doubled (Hartman, Carnochan, & Hartman, 2002: 368). Likewise, urban redevelopment at the Yerba Buena Center and in the Mission district expanded office space and new middle-class condos but destroyed over ten thousand low-income apartments and single occupancy rooms.3 The low-income units were never rebuilt and the condos that replaced them are deeply implicated in the exponential rent increases in San Francisco. Feinstein’s neoliberal policies not only shrunk the availability of low
civilizing ‘New’ East Manchester”. Area 35 (2): 116–127. — 2003b. “The limits to contemporary urban redevelopment: ‘Doing’ entrepreneurial urbanism in Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester”. City 7 (2): 199–211. Wedel, Janine R. 2011. Shadow Governing: What the Neocon Core Reveals about Power and Influence in America. Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power. New York: Berghahn Books. 38 Inclusion without incorporation While, Aidan, Andrew E.G. Jonas, and David Gibbs. 2004. “The environment and the entrepreneurial city: searching for the urban
Throughout Germany, there is a host of recent examples of urban (re)development and reconstructive architecture, from the new ‘old towns’ of Dresden and Frankfurt am Main mimicking pre-World War II appearances to Berlin's much-debated recreation of an imperial palace. Inaugurated in December 2020 on the former site of the GDR parliamentary building, the newly-built Humboldt Forum – a museum complex behind a neo-Prussian facade – and some of the artefacts exhibited there are subject to criticism from activists and academics alike (e.g. Appadurai, 2017 ; Heller and
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