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  • From World City to the World in One City

    Liverpool through Malay Lives

    de Tim Bunnell ...
    Series series IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Tim Bunnell's book featured in the movie Pulang - the author has recently spoken in several interviews and programmes about how his fascination with the tales of Malay seamen in the UK led to writing this volume:https://www.nst.com.my/lifestyle/groove/2018/07/387898/showbiz-sailing-sea-heartwarming-taleshttp://www.thesundaily.my/news/2018/07/05/coming-home-last Coming home at lasthttps://www ... Leer más

    $29.00 USD

  • Asian Cities in an Era of Decentralisation

    Edición de Michelle Ann Miller, Tim Bunnell ...
    This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The contributions thus highlight how the term ‘empowerment’ in the context of decentralization regimes masks a competing array of intentions and agendas. Who and what are ‘empowered’, given a ‘voice’ and allowed to ‘participate’ via the processes and ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia

    Edición de Tim Bunnell, Eric C. Thompson, D. Parthasarathy ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Asia, the location of the world’s fastest-growing economies, is also home to some of the fastest rates of urbanization humanity has ever seen, a process whose speed renders long-term outcomes highly unpredictable. This volume contrasts with much published work on the rural/urban divide, which has tended to focus on single case studies. It provides empirical perspectives from four Asian countries: ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor

    A Critical Geography of Intelligent Landscapes

    de Tim Bunnell ...
    Series series Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
    Based on fieldwork in Malaysia, this book provides a critical examination of the country's main urban region. The study first provides a theoretical reworking of geographies of modernity and details the emergence of a globally-oriented, 'high-tech' stage of national development. The Multimedia Super Corridor is framed in terms of a political vision of a 'fully developed' Malaysia before the author ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

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    de Marc Askew ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
    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, ... Leer más

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  • Singapore Malays

    Being Ethnic Minority and Muslim in a Global City-State

    de Hussin Mutalib ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    The Malay population makes up Singapore's three largest ethnic groups. This book presents holistic and extensive analysis of the 'Malay Muslim story' in Singapore. Comprehensively and convincingly argued, the author examines their challenging circumstances in the fields of politics, education, social mobility, economy, leadership, and freedom of religious expression. The book makes a significant ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • The Other Kuala Lumpur

    Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City

    Edición de Yeoh Seng Guan ...
    Series series Routledge Malaysian Studies Series
    Kuala Lumpur, like many Southeast Asian cities, has changed very significantly in the last two or three decades – expanding its size, and 'modernising' and 'globalising' its built environment. For many people these changes represent 'progress' and 'development'. This book, however, focuses on the more marginalised residents of Kuala Lumpur. Among others, it considers street hawkers and vendors, ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Tourism and Postcolonialism

    Contested Discourses, Identities and Representations

    Edición de Michael C. Hall, Hazel Tucker ...
    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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  • Indonesia-Malaysia Relations

    Cultural Heritage, Politics and Labour Migration

    de Marshall Clark, Juliet Pietsch ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
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  • A Short History Of Malaysia:Linking East And West

    Linking East and West

    de Virginia Matheson Hooker ...
    New in the Short History of Asia series, edited by Milton Osborne, this is a readable, well-informed and comprehensive history of Malaysia from ancient past to hyper-modern present day. One of the last British colonies to achieve independence, Malaysia has been developed by its leaders as a model of rapid modernisation. From an earlier image as a romantic tropical backwater, it is now a self ... Leer más

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  • Tourism and Sustainability

    Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World

    de Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt ...
    By January 2015 the world’s richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per cent of the world’s population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in-migration of Third World migrants to wealthy First World nations go ever higher, while the barriers to travel in the reverse direction are all but extinct.So how exactly does tourism contribute to narrowing this glaring ... Leer más

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  • Floating on a Malayan Breeze

    de Hong Kong University Press ...
    What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed along their own paths. Malaysia has given preference to the majority Malay Muslims—the bumiputera, or sons of the soil. Singapore, meanwhile, has tried to build a meritocracy—ostensibly colour-blind, yet more encouraging perhaps to some Singaporeans than ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD