Description
The study of urbanization in Southeast Asia has been a growing field of research over the past decades. The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization in Southeast Asia offers a collection of the major streams and themes in the studies of the cities in the region. A focus on the urbanization process rather than the city as an object opens the topic more broadly to bring together different perspectives. This timely handbook presents these diverse views to build a clearer understanding of theoretical contributions of urban studies in Southeast Asia and to provide a complete collection of scholarly works that are thematically structured and a useful tool for teaching urbanization in Southeast Asia.
Following the introduction by the editor, the handbook is structured along central, emerging themes. It contains six parts, which are each introduced by the editor:
- Theorizing Urbanization in Southeast Asia
- Migration, Networks and Identities
- Development and Discontents
- Environmental Governance
- The Social Production of the Urban Fabric
- Social Change and Alternative Development
This handbook will be an essential reference work for scholars interested in Urban Studies, cities and urbanization in Asia, and Southeast Asian Studies.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Rita Padawangi
Part I: Theorizing Urbanization in Southeast Asia
Overview: Theorizing Urbanization in Southeast Asia, Rita Padawangi
1. Gateways, Corridors and Peripheries, Peter J. Rimmer and Howard Dick
2. Peri-Urban Transformations in Southeast Asia, Yap Kioe Sheng
3. Knowledge, Creativity and the City, Dean Forbes
4. Aspirations in Urban(izing) Southeast Asia, Tim Bunnell, Daniel P.S. Goh and Ng Huiying
5. The Politics of Increments in Collective Urban Action, AbdouMaliq Simone
6. Provisional Notes on Semi-Urbanization, Abidin Kusno
7. Some Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Studying Urbanization in Southeast Asia, Gavin W. Jones
8. Challenges and Opportunities of Comparative Research: The Case of Brunei-Miri and Singapore-Iskandar Malaysia, Sin Yee Koh
9. Debilitating City-Centricity: Urbanization and Urban-Rural Hybridity in Southeast Asia, Stephen Cairns
Part II: Migration, Networks and Identities
Overview: Migration, Networks and Identities, Rita Padawangi
10. Longing and Belonging in a Global City: Skilled Migrants in Singaporean Urban Space, Michiel Baas
11. Marginalized Migrants and Urbanization in Southeast Asia, Laavanya Kathiravelu and George Wong Boon Keng
12. Women Workers and Urban Imagination in Indonesia’s Industrial Town, Nicolaas Warouw
13. God’s Many Faces: Religious Pluralism in Urban Southeast Asia, Teresita Cruz-del Rosario
14. Between Tradition and Modernity: The Ritual Politics of Indigenous Cultural Heritage in Urbanizing Sabah, East Malaysia, Yunci Cai
15. Networks Beyond the Nation: Urban Histories of Northern Thailand and Beyond, Taylor Easum
Part III: Development and Discontents
Overview: Development and Discontents, Rita Padawangi
16. Mega-Regionalization of a Nation: Philippine Mega-Regions and the Impulse to Globalize, Arnisson Andre C. Ortega
17. Kota Kinabalu: Checkered Past, Present Challenges, Bright Future?, Simone Shu-Yeng Chung and Robin Chung
18. Transforming Kuala Lumpur: Hybrid Urbanisms in Motion, Yeoh Seng Guan
19. From Socialist Modernism to Market Modernism? Master-Planned Developments in Post-Reform Vietnam, Hoai Anh Tran
20. Peri-Urbanization in the Surabaya Metropolitan Area: An Industrial Transformation Perspective, Delik Hudalah, Tania Benita and Ikrar Eka Praya Gumilar
21. Contesting Development: Youth and Industrial Labor in Peri-Urban Banten, Indonesia, Suzanne Naafs
22. Transportation Development and Urbanization in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Saksith Chalermpong
23. Phnom Penh's Diamond Island: City of Spectacle, Teri Shaffer Yamada
Part IV: Environmental Governance
Overview: Environmental Governance, Rita Padawangi
24. An Assessment of Disaster Risk and Resilience in Rapidly Urbanizing ASEAN Cities, Karl Kim and Lily Bui
25. The Political Ecology of Uneven Development and Vulnerability to Disasters, Danny Marks
26. Political Ecologies of Urbanizing Natures in Southeast Asia, Kristian Saguin
27. Urbanization and Multiple-Scales Environmental Challenges in Malaysia, Adnan A Hezri
28. The Urban Transformation in Southeast Asia: From Cosmic Cities to Urban Centers, Victor R. Savage
Part V: The Social Production of the Urban Fabric
Overview: The Social Production of the Urban Fabric, Rita Padawangi
29. Historical Morphology of Coastal Cities in Southeast Asia, Johannes Widodo
30. In Search of Urban Identities in Myanmar, Jayde Lin Roberts
31. Contested Heritage in Luang Prabang, Phill Wilcox
32. Alleyway Neighborhoods in Hồ Chí Minh City, Marie Gibert
33. Informality, Advocacy, and Governmentality in Urbanizing Northern Philippine Cities: Baguio, Benguet and Dagupan, Pangasinan, Ty Matejowsky and B. Lynne Milgram
Part VI: Social Change and Alternative Development
Overview: Social Change and Alternative Development, Rita Padawangi
34. Community-based Food Production, Piyapong Boossabong
35. Community-led Processes for Inclusive Urban Development, Diane Archer
36. Citywide Participatory Community Mapping, John Taylor
37. Disciplining Dissent: Freedom, Control, and Digital Activism in Southeast Asia, Merlyna Lim
