The Other Kuala Lumpur (eBook, PDF)

Living in the Shadows of a Globalising Southeast Asian City
Redaktion: Seng Guan, Yeoh

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Kuala Lumpur, like many Southeast Asian cities, has changed very significantly in the last two or three decades - expanding its size, and 'modernising' and 'globalising' its built environment. For many people these changes represent 'progress' and 'development'. This book, however, focuses on the more marginalised residents of Kuala Lumpur. Among others, it considers street hawkers and vendors, refugees, the urban poor, religious minorities and a sexuality rights group, and explores how their everyday lives have been adversely affected by these recent changes. The book shows how urban renewal, the law and ethno-religious nationalism can work against these groups in wanting to live and work in the capital city of Malaysia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317911210
• Artikelnr.: 40447212

Autorenporträt

Yeoh Seng Guan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University, Malaysia.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: The World Class City and Subaltern Kuala Lumpur 2.
Globalising Kuala Lumpur and Rationalising the Street: Hawkers and the
Aporias of Urban Renewal along Petaling Street and Jalan Masjid India 3.
Can Law do Justice? Everyday Ethics and the Transformation of Urban Life in
Kuala Lumpur 4. Citizenship and the City: Visions and Revisions of Malaysia
5. The Moderate and the Excessive: Performing Malay Consumption 6. Housing
Hindu Deities in Urban Landscapes: Insights from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
7. Seeking Refuge in Kuala Lumpur: Personal and Collective Strategies to
Relieve Vulnerability amongst Asylum Seekers, Refugees and Stateless
Persons 8. The Creation of Sexual Dissidence in Kuala Lumpur: The Case of
Seksualiti Merdeka 9. The Last Plantations in Kuala Lumpur