Cultural Identity and Urban Change in Southeast Asia
Cultural Identity and Urban Change in Southeast Asia

Author: William Stewart Logan

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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Collection of essays which discuss the development and role of 11 urban places in South-east Asia. Emphasises the need to consider their rich history and culture when formulating development strategies and policies. Includes an index. Marc Askew is lecturer in the department of Asian studies and languages, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne. William Logan is professor of geography and head of the graduate school of arts at Deakin University.

The City in Southeast Asia
The City in Southeast Asia

Author: Peter James Rimmer

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9789971694265

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The extended metropolitan regions of Southeast Asia are the dynamic cores of their national economies and societies and the frontiers of accelerating globalization. This title explores ways of moving beyond outmoded paradigms of the Third World City or a Southeast Asian city 'type'.

Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam
Consuming Urban Culture in Contemporary Vietnam

Author: Lisa Drummond

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-25

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1134433751

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Vietnam is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from a relatively closed society with a centrally planned economy, to a rapidly urbanising one with a global outlook. These changes have been the catalyst for an exciting ferment of activity in popular culture. This volume contains contributions from scholars engaged in the most up-to-date social research in Vietnam, as well as some of Vietnam's most popular cultural producers who are forging new ways of imagining the present whilst at the same time engaging actively in reinterpreting the past. The diverse ways that Vietnam is culturally and socially negotiating the future are examined as the book addresses issues of indigenisation of cultural influences, ambivalence surrounding change, and the consistent blurring of boundaries between informal, non-state cultural activities and formal institutional structures in the evolution of a civil society in Vietnam.

Southeast Asian Culture and Heritage in a Globalising World
Southeast Asian Culture and Heritage in a Globalising World

Author: Rahil Ismail

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 131705220X

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Southeast Asia has in recent years become a crossroads of cultures with high levels of ethnic pluralism, not only between countries, sub-regions and urban areas, but also at the local levels of community and neighbourhood. Illustrated by a series of international case studies, this book demonstrates how the forces of 'post-colonialism' in their various manifestations are accelerating social change and creating new and 'imagined' communities, some of which are potentially disruptive and which may well threaten the longer term sustainability of the region. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book brings together geographers, historians, anthropologists, architects, education specialists, planners and sociologists to make connections and new insights and to provide a truly comprehensive view of heritage, culture and identity in this dynamic region.

Southeast Asia Transformed
Southeast Asia Transformed

Author: Chia Lin Sien

Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 9812301178

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Southeast Asia, with a total population of 520 million, remains a region characterized by fragmentation, diversity, and considerable internal conflict despite the unifying influence of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), formed some thirty-five years ago. In the new millennium, it has lost the distinction of being one of the worlds faster growing group of economies since the 1997 financial crisis. While it has benefited from the winds of globalization, it has now to cope with the painful adjustments to problems that stem from the inadequacies of good governance and structural changes.

Directors of Urban Change in Asia
Directors of Urban Change in Asia

Author: Peter J.M. Nas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-03-10

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1134267363

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Bringing together a group of international scholars, Directors of Urban Change in Asia examines who the 'directors' for urban change are in an eclectic mix of Asian cities. The books discusses how, in the majority of cases, urban change has come about primarily as the result of visionary leaders, on national, regional and local levels. It also makes clear that the less successful cities have tended to lack such leaders.

Bangkok
Bangkok

Author: Marc Askew

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1134659865

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Bangkok is one of Asia's most interesting, varied, controversial and challenging cities. It is a city of contradictions, both in its present and past. This unique book examines the development of the city from its earliest days as the seat of the Thai monarchy to its current position as an infamous contemporary metropolis. Adopting insights from anthropology, urban studies and human geography, this is a powerful account of the city and its dynamic spaces. Marc Askew examines the city's variety from the inner-city slums to the rural-urban fringe, and gives us a keen insight into the daily life of the city's inhabitants, be they middle-class suburbanites or sex workers.

Becoming Places
Becoming Places

Author: Kim Dovey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-07-09

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1134117361

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This book is about the practices and politics of place and identity formation - the slippery ways in which who we are becomes wrapped up with where we are. Drawing on the social theories of Deleuze and Bourdieu, the book analyzes the sense of place as socio-spatial assemblage and as embodied habitus, through a broad range of case studies from nationalist monuments and new urbanist suburbs to urban laneways and avant garde interiors.

Unsettling Absences
Unsettling Absences

Author: Eric C. Thompson

Publisher: NUS Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9789971693367

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In Unsettling Absences, Eric Thompson argues that urbanism is a cultural force unbound from the city and is a pervasive presence in the Malaysian countryside. Transported to rural communities, urbanism has motivated migration, transformed the social lives of rural inhabitants, and created a deep ambivalence about personal identity. This has left rural Malays feeling out of place in both the city and the village. Kuala Lumpur epitomises modernity, but rural Malays who move there are often marginalised in squatter settlements on its periphery. The kampung symbolises home and the locus of Malay identity, but schoolbooks and television have projected urbanism that marks rural life as backwards and marginal in a forward-looking nation into the kampung. The book challenges city-bound urban studies by locating urbanism in a wider world that extends outside of the city, and shows the conflicted realities of rural dwellers in an overwhelmingly urban world. As others have challenged the meaning of "modernity", Thompson challenges the meaning of "urban" while still recognising the powerful effects of an ideology of "urbanism". Unsettling Absences is a call to take seriously place-based identities and cultural geographies in a world where the urban/rural divide is dissolving in practice but in cultural terms remains as powerful as ever.

Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand
Buddhism and Postmodern Imaginings in Thailand

Author: James Taylor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1351954431

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This book presents a rethink on the significance of Thai Buddhism in an increasingly complex and changing post-modern urban context, especially following the financial crisis of 1997. Defining the cultural nature of Thai ’urbanity’; the implications for local/global flows, interactions and emergent social formations, James Taylor opens up new possibilities in understanding the specificities of everyday urban life as this relates to perceptions, conceptions and lived experiences of religiosity. Changes in the centre are also reverberating in the remaining forests and the monastic tradition of forest-dwelling which has sourced most of the nation’s modern saints. The text is based on ethnography taking into account the rich variety of everyday practices in a mélange of the religious. In Thailand, Buddhism is so intimately interconnected with national identity and social, economic and ethno-political concerns as to be inseparable. Taylor argues here that in recent years there has been a marked reformulation of important conventional cosmologies through new and challenging Buddhist ideas and practices. These influences and changes are as much located outside as inside the Buddhist temples/monasteries.