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Modern dreams : an inquiry into power, cultural production, and the cityscape in contemporary urban Penang, Malaysia / Beng-Lan Goh.
LIBRA HT147.M4 G64 2002
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goh, Beng-Lan.
- Series:
- Studies on Southeast Asia ; no. 31.
- Studies on Southeast Asia ; no. 31
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community power--Malaysia--George Town (Pinang).
- Community power.
- Gentrification--Malaysia--George Town (Pinang).
- Gentrification.
- Malaysia--George Town (Pulau Pinang).
- George Town (Pinang)--Politics and government.
- George Town (Pinang).
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2002.
- Contents:
- Chapter 2 Southeast Asian Modernity Reconsidered 21
- Chapter 3 Nation, Ethnicity, Class, and the Changing Cityscape in Modern Malaysia 39
- Chapter 4 From Kampung to Condominium 69
- Chapter 5 Kampung Serani Residents' Battle in Vain 97
- Chapter 6 The Politics of Portuguese-Eurasian Identity Constructions in the Kampung Serani Conflict 123
- Chapter 7 The Juggernaut of Growth and the Kampung Serani Conflict 145
- Chapter 8 Property Developers and the Kampung Serani Conflict 173.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0877277303
- OCLC:
- 49198043
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