Research Catalog

Title

Unsettling absences : urbanism in rural Malaysia / Eric C. Thompson.

Author

Thompson, Eric C., 1966-

Publication

Singapore : NUS Press, ©2007.

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Details

Description

xv, 255 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

"This book challenges city-bound urban studies by locating urbanism in a wider world that extends outside of the city, and shows the conflicted realities of rural dwellers in an overwhelmingly urban world. As others have challenged the meaning of "modernity", the author challenges the meaning of "urban" while still recognising the powerful effects of an ideology of "urbanism". The book is a call to take seriously place-based identities and cultural geographies in a world where the urban/rural divide is dissolving in practice but in cultural terms remains as powerful as ever."--Back cover.

Alternative Title

Urbanism in rural Malaysia

Subject

• Sociology, Rural > Malaysia > Case studies
• Rural-urban relations > Malaysia > Case studies
• Rural-urban relations
• Sociology, Rural
• Ländlicher Raum
• Urbanität
• Modernität
• Binnenwanderung
• Antropologi > Malaysia
• Landsbygdssociologi > Malaysia
• Urbanisering > Malaysia
• Malaysia

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- pt. I. Kuala Lumpur and kampung -- 2. Kuala Lumpur -- 3. Kampung -- pt. II. Practical urbanism -- 4. Circulation and migration -- 5. Production and labor -- 6. Social interaction -- pt. III. Mediated urbanism -- 7. Schooling -- 8. Television -- 9. Migrant narratives -- 10. Desire and identity in KL-and-kampung.

ISBN

• 9789971693367
• 9971693364

LCCN

2007316987

OCLC

• ocn143639082
• 143639082
• SCSB-1445259

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library