Postcolonial urbanism : Southeast Asian cities and global processes / edited by Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bishop, Ryan, 1959-

Phillips, John, 1956-

Yeo, Wei-Wei.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Southeast Asia.

Urbanization.

Cities and towns--Southeast Asia.

Cities and towns.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory and in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to inves

Contents:

1. Perpetuating cities : excepting globalization and the Southeast Asia supplement / Ryan Bishop, John Phillips, Wei-Wei Yeo

2. Global cities, terror and tourism : the ambivalent allure of the urban jungle / Kathleen Adams

3. The city as target, or perpetuation and death / Ryan Bishop and Gregory K. Clancey

4. From the hypermodern city to the gray zone of total mobilization in the Philippines / John Armitage and Joanne Roberts

5. Urban space in the French imperial past and the postcolonial present / Richard L. Derderian

6. Sharing space in the urban botanic gardens of Singapore and Malaysia, 1786-2000 / Emma Reisz

7. Gay capitals in global gay history : cities, local markets, and the origins of Bangkok's same-sex cultures / Peter A. Jackson

8. Actually existing postcolonialisms : colonial urbanism and architecture after the postcolonial turn / Anthony D. King

9. Jakarta as a site of fragmegrative tensions / James N. Rosenau and Diane Wildsmith

10. Regionalism, English narrative and Singapore as home and global city / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

11. Contemporary cities with colonial pasts and global futures : some aspects of the relations between governance, order, and decent, secure life / George E. Marcus and Angela Rivas Gamboa

12. City as theatre : Singapore, state of distraction / Wei-Wei Yeo

13. Perpetual returns : vampires and the ever-colonized city / Steve Pile

14. Benjamin's Arcades project and the postcolonial city / Rajeev S. Patke

15. Deus ex machina : evangelical sites, urbanism, and the construction of social identities / Robbie B. H. Goh.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-06050-2

0-203-61589-1

1-283-96351-5

1-136-06042-1

9780203615898

OCLC:

826854942