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Author Goh, Beng-Lan.

Title Modern dreams : an inquiry into power, cultural production, and the cityscape in contemporary urban Penang, Malaysia / Beng-Lan Goh
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Southeast Asia Program Publications, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 2002

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Description 214 pages : illustrations maps ; 26 cm
Series Studies on Southeast Asia ; no.31
Studies on Southeast Asia ; no.31
Summary An ethnographic study of the cultural politics of urban redevelopment in one Malaysian community in the 1990s, looking at changing notions of culture, identity, and urban space. [from publisher's advertisement]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Community power -- Malaysia -- Pulau Pinang (State) -- George Town
Gentrification -- Malaysia -- Pulau Pinang (State) -- George Town
Portuguese -- Malaysia -- Pulau Pinang (State) -- George Town
Political culture -- Malaysia -- Pulau Pinang (State) -- George Town
Power (Social sciences) -- Malaysia -- Pulau Pinang (State) -- George Town
Eurasians -- Malaysia -- Pulau Pinang (State) -- George Town
City planning -- Malaysia -- Pulau Pinang (State) -- George Town
Urban renewal -- Malaysia -- Pulau Pinang (State) -- George Town
Community power -- Malaysia -- George Town (Pinang)
Gentrification -- Malaysia -- George Town (Pinang)
Gentrification -- Malaysia -- George Town (Pulau Pinang)
Community power -- Malaysia -- George Town (Pulau Pinang)
SUBJECT Kampung Serani (George Town, Pinang) -- Social conditions
George Town (Pinang) -- Politics and government
George Town (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81034919 -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011436
Author Cornell University. Southeast Asia Program.
LC no. 2003268261
ISBN 0877277303