Outputs (2)

Developing Indifference: Youth, Place-making and Belonging in a Transforming Urban China (2021)
Journal Article
Nolan, M. (2021). Developing Indifference: Youth, Place-making and Belonging in a Transforming Urban China. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 11(3), 1029-1044. https://doi.org/10.1086/717515

This article examines the social impacts of urban change among a generation of people for whom it is the norm: youth in Beijing, where decades of redevelopment have led to large-scale demolition of older neighborhoods and a perpetually changing citys... Read More about Developing Indifference: Youth, Place-making and Belonging in a Transforming Urban China.

An Anthropological Study of Zhai in Contemporary Urban China (2021)
Thesis
Nolan, M. B. An Anthropological Study of Zhai in Contemporary Urban China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is based on an ethnographic study of a phenomenon, zhai, which has emerged in urban China. Zhai, which can be literally translated as ‘residence’, refers to a tendency towards staying indoors. Approximately ten years ago, Chinese media be... Read More about An Anthropological Study of Zhai in Contemporary Urban China.