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

Asia, the location of the worlds 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 te...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bunnell, Tim. (Editor), Parthasarathy, D. (Editor), Thompson, Eric C. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:ARI - Springer Asia Series ; 3
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Architecture.
Anthropology.
Human Geography.
Social Sciences.
Social Sciences, general.
Urbanism.
Sociology, general.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5482-9
Table of Contents:
  • CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Place, society and politics across urban and rural Asia:Eric C. Thompson, Tim Bunnell and D. Parthasarathy
  • PART I: INDIA: CHAPTER 2: Rural, Urban, Regional: Re-Spatializing Capital and Politics in India: D. Parthasarathy
  • CHAPTER 3: Rural youth as real estate entrepreneurs in globalizing Hyderabad: Anant Maringanti
  • CHAPTER 4: Livelihoods and Development: Socio-economic Exclusion in Mumbais Hinterland: Stephen Louw and Parthsarathi Mondal
  • PART II: INDONESIA: CHAPTER 5: Regional governance in decentralizing Indonesia: Learning from the success of inter-local government cooperation in Metropolitan Yogyakarta: Fikri Zul Fahmi, Delik Hudalah and Tommy Firman
  • CHAPTER 6: Urban-Rural Connections: Banda Aceh through Conflict, Tsunami and Decentralization: Michelle Ann Miller and Tim Bunnell
  • CHAPTER 7: Urbanization without development: The cases of Cirebon and Gresik on Javas North Coast: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo: PART III: MALAYSIA
  • CHAPTER 8: Sense of place and the politics of insider-ness in villages undergoing transition: the case of city kampung on Penang island : Suriati Ghazali
  • CHAPTER 9: Gender and the interplay of rural and urban: A Malaysian case: Maila Stivens
  • CHAPTER 10: Urban Cosmopolitan Chauvinism and the Politics of Rural Identity: Eric C. Thompson: PART IV: THAILAND: CHAPTER 11: Gendered Nation and Classed Modernity: The Perceptions of Mia Farang (Foreigners Wives) in Thai Society: Sirijit Sunanta
  • CHAPTER 12: Redrawing Thai Political Space: The Red-shirt Movement: Chairat Charoensin-o-larn
  • CHAPTER 13: The City as Promise and Ruin: The supernatural and urban change in Chiang Mai: Andrew Johnson.

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