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Title Cleavage, connection and conflict in rural, urban and contemporary Asia / Tim Bunnell, D. Parthasarathy, Eric C. Thompson, editors
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2013

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Series ARI-- Springer Asia Series ; v. 3
ARI-Springer Asia series ; v. 3.
Contents INDIA -- Rural, Urban, and Regional: Re-spatializing Capital and Politics in India / D. Parthasarathy -- Rural Youths as Real Estate Entrepreneurs in Globalizing Hyderabad / Anant Maringanti -- Livelihoods and Development: Socioeconomic Exclusion in Mumbai's Hinterland / Stephen John Louw, Parthasarathi Mondal -- INDONESIA -- Regional Governance in Decentralizing Indonesia: Learning from the Success of Urban-Rural Cooperation in Metropolitan Yogyakarta / Delik Hudalah, Fikri Zulfahmi, Tommy Firman -- Urban-Rural Connections: Banda Aceh Through Conflict, Tsunami, and Decentralization / Michelle Ann Miller, Tim Bunnell -- Urbanization Without Development: The Cases of Cirebon and Gresik on Java's North Coast / Riwanto Tirtosudarmo -- MALAYSIA -- Sense of Place and the Politics of "Insider-ness" in Villages Undergoing Transition: The Case of City Kampung on Penang Island / Suriati Ghazali -- Gender and the Interplay of Rural and Urban: A Malaysian Case / Maila Stivens -- Urban Cosmopolitan Chauvinism and the Politics of Rural Identity / Eric C. Thompson -- THAILAND -- Gendered Nation and Classed Modernity: The Perceptions of Mia Farang (Foreigners' Wives) in Thai Society / Sunanta Sirijit -- Redrawing Thai Political Space: The Red Shirt Movement / Chairat Charoensin-o-larn -- The City as Promise and Ruin: The Supernatural and Urban Change in Chiang Mai / Andrew Alan Johnson
Summary Asia, the location of the world's fastest-growing economies, is also home to some of the fastest rates of urbanization humanity has ever seen, a process whose speed renders long-term outcomes highly unpredictable. This volume contrasts with much published work on the rural/urban divide, which has tended to focus on single case studies. It provides empirical perspectives from four Asian countries: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, and includes a wealth of insights that both critique and expand popular notions of the rural-urban divide. The volume is relevant not just to Asian contexts but to social scientific research on population dynamics more generally. Rather than deploying a single study to chart national trends, three chapters on each country make possible much more complex perspectives. As a result, this volume does more than extend our understanding of the interplay between cities and hinterlands within Asia. It enhances our notions of rural/urban cleavages, connections and conflicts more generally, with data and analysis ready for application to other contexts. Of interest to diverse scholars across the social sciences and Asian studies, this work includes accounts ranging from rural youth real estate entrepreneurs in Hyderabad, India, to social development in Aceh province in Indonesia, devastated by the 2004 tsunami, to the relationship between urban space and commonly held notions of the supernatural in Thailand's northern city of Chiang Mai
Analysis Social sciences
Architecture
Human Geography
Urbanism
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Sociology, Urban -- Asia
Sociology, Rural -- Asia
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Droit.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Politics and government
Social conditions
Sociology, Rural
Sociology, Urban
SUBJECT Asia -- Politics and government -- 21st century
Asia -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Subject Asia
Asie -- Conditions sociales -- 21e siècle.
Form Electronic book
Author Bunnell, Tim.
Parthasarathy, D.
Thompson, Eric C.
ISBN 9789400754829
9400754825