Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Founding of Brickfields and the Prewar Development of Kuala Lumpur 25
6. 2. The Malayan Emergency, Islamic Reform, and the Trajectory of Urban Governmentality in Kuala Lumpur 54
7. 3. Law, Justice, Disappearance: The Experience of Place in a Time of Radical Transformation 85
8. 4. Strangers, Counterfeiters, and Gangsters: Figures of Belonging and the Problem of Belief 130
9. 5. Ambivalent Encounters in the City: Islam, Hinduism, and Urban Governmentality 176
10. Conclusion 217
11. Notes 223
12. Bibliography 253
13. Index 277