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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Bunnell, Tim (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Parthasarathy, D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Thompson, Eric C. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: ARI - Springer Asia Series ; 3
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Anthropology.; Sociology.; Human geography.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Urbanism.; Human Geography.; Sociology, general.

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 te...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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 Mumbai’s 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 Java’s 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.