Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
24 produkter
Cultural Politics of Urban Development in South Korea
Art, Memory and Urban Boosterism in Gwangju
Av HaeRan Shin
Inbunden, 2020
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book analyses the cultural politics of urban development in Gwangju, South Korea, and illustrates the implementation of state-led arts-based urban boosterism efforts in the context of political trauma and the desire for economic growth.The book explores urban development that is complicated by …
Change and Continuity in the Pacific
Revisiting the Region
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific. Despite this, there are few longitudinal studies of any great depth and sophistication in the region. The contributors to this book have all conducted long-term …
Made in the Philippines
Häftad, 2019
691 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Philippines is the world's largest exporter of temporary contract labor with a huge 800,000 workers a year being deployed on either six month or two year contracts. This labor migration is highly regulated by the government, private, and non-governmental/non-private organizations. Tyner argues …
Landscapes of Globalization
Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines
Inbunden, 1999
3065 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this critical and sophisticated analysis, Philip F. Kelly challenges the conventional definition of globalization as an irresistible and inevitable force to which societies must succumb. By tracing the consequences of global economic integration in the Philippines, he argues that global …
Sex Work in Southeast Asia
The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS
Av Lisa Law
Inbunden, 2000
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism …
Urbanisation in the Island Pacific
Towards Sustainable Development
Av John Connell, John Lea
Inbunden, 2002
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Managing rapid urban growth presents a significant challenge in the small independent countries of the Pacific Islands. Although they originated in colonial times, the towns and cities are now distinctively post-colonial, with economies, environments and social structures that reflect unique island …
Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor
A Critical Geography of Intelligent Landscapes
Av Tim Bunnell
Inbunden, 2004
1521 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Based on fieldwork in Malaysia, this book provides a critical examination of the country's main urban region. The study first provides a theoretical reworking of geographies of modernity and details the emergence of a globally-oriented, 'high-tech' stage of national development. The Multimedia …
Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific
Between Local and Global
Inbunden, 2006
2744 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have …
Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor
A Critical Geography of Intelligent Landscapes
Av Tim Bunnell
Häftad, 2006
502 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Based on fieldwork in Malaysia, this book provides a critical examination of the country's main urban region. The study first provides a theoretical reworking of geographies of modernity and details the emergence of a globally-oriented, 'high-tech' stage of national development. The Multimedia …
Gated Communities in China
Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life
Inbunden, 2009
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China’s commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound …
Neoliberal Governance and International Medical Travel in Malaysia
Inbunden, 2013
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
International medical travel (IMT), people crossing national borders in the pursuit of healthcare, has become a growing phenomenon. With many of the countries currently being promoted as IMT destinations located in the ‘developing’ world, IMT poses a significant challenge to popular assumptions …
Sex Work in Southeast Asia
The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS
Av Lisa Law
Häftad, 2011
750 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism …
Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific
Between Local and Global
Häftad, 2011
910 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have …
Urbanisation in the Island Pacific
Towards Sustainable Development
Av John Connell, John Lea
Häftad, 2011
750 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Managing rapid urban growth presents a significant challenge in the small independent countries of the Pacific Islands. Although they originated in colonial times, the towns and cities are now distinctively post-colonial, with economies, environments and social structures that reflect unique island …
Gated Communities in China
Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life
Häftad, 2012
750 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China’s commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound …
Cambodia's Neoliberal Order
Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space
Inbunden, 2010
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Neoliberal economics have emerged in the post-Cold War era as the predominant ideological tenet applied to the development of countries in the global south. For much of the global south, however, the promise that markets will bring increased standards of living and emancipation from tyranny has …
Cambodia's Neoliberal Order
Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space
Häftad, 2012
910 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Neoliberal economics have emerged in the post-Cold War era as the predominant ideological tenet applied to the development of countries in the global south. For much of the global south, however, the promise that markets will bring increased standards of living and emancipation from tyranny has …
Made in the Philippines
Inbunden, 2003
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Philippines is the world's largest exporter of temporary contract labor with a huge 800,000 workers a year being deployed on either six month or two year contracts. This labor migration is highly regulated by the government, private, and non-governmental/non-private organizations. Tyner argues …
Landscapes of Globalization
Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines
Häftad, 2015
750 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this critical and sophisticated analysis, Philip F. Kelly challenges the conventional definition of globalization as an irresistible and inevitable force to which societies must succumb. By tracing the consequences of global economic integration in the Philippines, he argues that global …
Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim
Place-making in Displacement
Av Shu-Mei Huang, Elizabeth Maly
Inbunden, 2023
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region. It focuses focus on how people respond and readjust to changes and captures the long-term community development outcomes and the critical moments that facilitate …
Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim
Place-making in Displacement
Av Shu-Mei Huang, Elizabeth Maly
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region. It focuses focus on how people respond and readjust to changes and captures the long-term community development outcomes and the critical moments that facilitate …
Cultural Politics of Urban Development in South Korea
Art, Memory and Urban Boosterism in Gwangju
Av HaeRan Shin
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book analyses the cultural politics of urban development in Gwangju, South Korea, and illustrates the implementation of state-led arts-based urban boosterism efforts in the context of political trauma and the desire for economic growth.The book explores urban development that is complicated by …
Change and Continuity in the Pacific
Revisiting the Region
Inbunden, 2018
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Thousands of studies have been conducted by social scientists in the villages and islands, and increasingly in the towns, of the Pacific. Despite this, there are few longitudinal studies of any great depth and sophistication in the region. The contributors to this book have all conducted long-term …
Neoliberal Governance and International Medical Travel in Malaysia
Häftad, 2015
750 kr
Lägg i varukorg
International medical travel (IMT), people crossing national borders in the pursuit of healthcare, has become a growing phenomenon. With many of the countries currently being promoted as IMT destinations located in the ‘developing’ world, IMT poses a significant challenge to popular assumptions …
