All 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. (2021). An Anthropological Study of Zhai in Contemporary Urban China [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00036123

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.