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44 produkter
Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West
Care of the Self
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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What does it mean to be a good citizen today? What are practices of citizenship? And what can we learn from the past about these practices to better engage in city life in the twenty-first century? Ancient and Modern Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self is a collection of …
Asian Alleyways
An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization
Av Marie Gibert-Flutre, Heide Imai
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Asian Alleyways: An Urban Vernacular in Times of Globalization critically explores Global Asia and the metropolization process, specifically from its alleyways, which are understood as ordinary neighbourhood landscapes providing the setting for everyday urban life and place-based identities being …
Asian Cities: Colonial to Global
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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When people look at success stories among postcolonial nations, the focus almost always turns to Asia, where many cities in former colonies have become key locations of international commerce and culture. This book brings together a stellar group of scholars from a number of disciplines to explore …
Chiang Mai between Empire and Modern Thailand
A City in the Colonial Margins
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Urban histories tend to be dominated by large, global cities. But what does the history of the modern, colonial era look like from the perspective of smaller cities? By shifting the focus from the metropolis to the secondary city of Chiang Mai, this study provides an alternative narrative of the …
Cities in Asia by and for the People
Av Yves Cabannes, Mike Douglass m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This book examines the active role of urban citizens in constructing alternative urban spaces as tangible resistance towards capitalist production of urban spaces that continue to encroach various neighborhoods, lanes, commons, public land and other spaces of community life and livelihoods. The …
Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata
From a Colonial to a Post-Marxist City
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata offers an extended analysis of the architecture and urban planning of Kolkata from the earliest days of colonialism through independence and on into the twenty-first century, all set in the larger context of Indian cities' architecture and urban …
Constructing Kanchi
City of Infinite Temples
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Constructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples traces the emergence of the South Indian city of Kanchi as a major royal capital and multireligious pilgrimage destination during the era of the Pallava and Chola dynasties (ca. seventh through thirteenth centuries). The book presents the first-ever …
Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West
Care of the Self
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self examines urban communities and societies in Asia and the West to shed much-needed light on issues that have emerged as the world experiences its new urban turn. An urbanized world should be an improving place, one that is …
Emerging Civic Urbanisms in Asia
Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei beyond Developmental Urbanization
Av Im Sik Cho, Blaz KRIZNIK m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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In parts of Asia, citizens are increasingly involved in shaping their neighbourhoods and cities, representing a significant departure from earlier state-led or market-driven urban development. These emerging civic urbanisms are a result of an evolving relationship between the state and civil …
Future Challenges of Cities in Asia
Av Gregory Bracken, Paul Rabé m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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The ten essays in Future Challenges of Cities in Asia engage with some of the most critical urban questions of the near future across Asia. These comprise socio-economic and cultural transitions as a result of urbanization; environmental challenges, especially questions of climate change, natural …
Ideas of the City in Asian Settings
Av Henco Bekkering, Adèle Esposito m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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At a time when intense dynamics of urban development of Asian cities puzzle and disorient, Ideas of the City in Asian Settings offers knowledge about the concepts, representations, and ideas that lie beneath the historical and contemporary production of cities in Asia, in order to deepen our …
Immigration in Singapore
Av Vasu, Wen Ling Chan m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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This study traces the socio-political effects of immigration on Singapore and its population, a topic that has been the subject of intense debate in the nation as its population grows increasingly diverse. Beyond the logic of economic imperatives, the book aims to explore the larger consequences of …
Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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The largest cities in Pacific Asia are the engines of their countries' economic growth, seats of national and regional political power, and repositories of the nation's culture and heritage. The economic changes impacting large cities interact with political forces along with social cultural …
River Cities in Asia
Waterways in Urban Development and History
Av Rita Padawangi, Paul Rabé m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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River Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities and the social sciences. As rivers have shaped human settlement patterns, economies, culture and rituals, so too have humans impacted the flow and health …
Shanghai Literary Imaginings
A City in Transformation
Av Lena Scheen
Häftad, 2025
816 kr
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This book draws on a wide range of methods-including approaches from literary studies, cultural studies, and urban sociology-to analyse the transformation of Shanghai through rapid growth and widespread urban renewal. Lena Scheen explores the literary imaginings of the city, its past, present, and …
Hard State, Soft City of Singapore
Av Simone Shu-Yeng Chung, Mike Douglass
Häftad, 2025
710 kr
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With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and associated practices that make up our lived environment, and conceptualized space engineered into …
Urban Development in the Margins of a World Heritage Site
In the Shadows of Angkor
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap. While previous work on heritage sites has mainly focused on protected areas, this book shifts the attention to the margins, where detrimental, tourism-driven urban …
Urban Traditions and Historic Environments in Sindh
A Fading Legacy of Shikarpoor, Historic City
Av Anila Naeem
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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Shikarpoor Historic City, in Sindh, Pakistan, has a rich historical heritage: as a central point on caravan trade routes, it served as the gateway to Afghanistan and Central Asia. In recognition of that history, in 1998 the government of Sindh named it a protected heritage site-but that status …
Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China
Urbanized Interface
Av Minna Valjakka, Meiqin Wang
Häftad, 2025
731 kr
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This edited volume provides a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and urbanization in contemporary Mainland China with a focus on unseen representations and urban interventions brought about by the transformations of the urban space and the various problems …
Future Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West
Care of the Self (Volume III)
Av Gregory Bracken, Paul Rabé m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2124 kr
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This volume investigates some of the greatest challenges facing society in the twenty-first century, including the struggle for rights and recognition by indigenous peoples, women, migrants, and the young, as well as the dampening effects some government responses to COVID-19 have had on artistic …
Housing, Nation-Building, and Malays in Singapore
Av Nurhidayahti Mohammad Miharja
Inbunden, 2027
2466 kr
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This book explores Singapore’s celebrated postcolonial state-building, revealing that the creation of the ‘housing nation’ is inseparable from a longer, quieter history of un-homing whose costs have been borne in particular ways by its Malay minority.Through the housing biographies of five …
Making and Unmaking of Multicultural Colombo
A History of Urban Development at the (Post-)Colonial Periphery
Inbunden, 2026
2576 kr
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This book historicizes the complex and dynamic relationship between urban development and the multicultural communities that make up the historic center of Colombo, Sri Lanka.By focusing on the oldest part of Colombo, currently the epicenter for urban regeneration, it succinctly traces how …
Shanghai Literary Imaginings
A City in Transformation
Av Lena Scheen
Inbunden, 2015
2326 kr
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Explores the literary imaginings of Shanghai, its past, present, and future, in order to understand the effects of that urban transformation on both the psychological state of Shanghai's citizens and their perception of the spaces they inhabit.
Immigration in Singapore
Inbunden, 2014
2124 kr
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This study traces the socio-political effects of immigration on Singapore and its population, a topic that has been the subject of intense debate in the nation as its population grows increasingly diverse.
Asian Cities: Colonial to Global
Inbunden, 2015
2501 kr
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When people look at success stories among postcolonial nations, the focus almost always turns to Asia, where many cities in former colonies have become key locations of international commerce and culture. This book brings together a stellar group of scholars from a number of disciplines to explore …
Colonizing, Decolonizing, and Globalizing Kolkata
From a Colonial to a Post-Marxist City
Inbunden, 2017
2208 kr
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The richly illustrated book carefully situates architecture, design, and urban planning within Kolkata's political economy and social milieu.
Urban Traditions and Historic Environments in Sindh
A Fading Legacy of Shikarpoor, Historic City
Av Anila Naeem
Inbunden, 2017
2564 kr
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Shikarpoor Historic City, in Sindh, Pakistan, has a rich historical heritage: as a central point on caravan trade routes, it served as the gateway to Afghanistan and Central Asia. In recognition of that history, in 1998 the government of Sindh named it a protected heritage site-but that status …
Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China
Urbanized Interface
Av Minna Valjakka, Meiqin Wang
Inbunden, 2018
2208 kr
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This book offers a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and representation interdependent to urban spaces in China.
Urban Development in the Margins of a World Heritage Site
In the Shadows of Angkor
Inbunden, 2018
2208 kr
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This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the margins of heritage sites where detrimental, tourism-driven urban development may take place.
Neighbourhoods for the City in Pacific Asia
Inbunden, 2019
2144 kr
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The largest cities in Pacific Asia are the engines of their countries’ economic growth, seats of national and regional political power, and repositories of the nation’s culture and heritage. The economic changes impacting large cities interact with political forces along with social cultural …
