Summary: Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities. It focuses on the ways in which urban spatial forms are textual experiences, subject to interpretative strategies and the influence of […]

Has the era of globalization neutralized the institution of “nation”? This thought-provoking book focuses on attempts to build “nation” through landscape. Specifically, it explores strategies employed by Singapore, a multiracial society, to create a Singapore “nation” with an emphasis on the role of landscapes. As such, the authors cast a keen eye on religious buildings,

The dead are potent and omnipresent in modern Indonesia. Presidents and peasants alike meditate before sacred graves to exploit the power they confer, and mediums do good business curing the sick by interpreting the wishes of deceased forebears. Among non-Muslims there are ritual reburials of the bones of the dead in monuments both magnificent and

Call#: HQ1236.5 Yeo 2002 (Dis) Note: Display collection Library holdings: 1 copy ISBN: 0-415-20660-X Amidst the unevenness and unpredictability of change in the Asia-Pacific region, women’s lives are being transformed. This volume takes up the challenge of exploring the ways in which women are active players, collaborators, participants, leaders and resistors in the politics of change

Call# G155.S5 Tan 2001 / c.2 (Dis) Note: Main collection / c. 2 in Display collection Library holdings: 2 copies ISBN: 981-02-4772-9 Tourism development is not merely about boosting tourist figures and bringing in more tourist dollars. Undoubtedly, it has to do with developing tourism resources, infrastructure, products, and attractions, but it is also about

The continued growth of India’s remarkable newspaper industry is the focus of the new edition of this widely-read book. While newspapers in the West struggle and fail, circulations in India have risen steeply in 13 major languages. Does this fi ercely competitive spread of newspapers destroy standards, undermine ethics, and shatter a genuine public sphere?

Call# HT388 And 2000 Note: Main collection ISBN : 1-84064-389-7 In the post-industrial network economy, international gateway regions are becoming increasingly important. These gateway regions are the nodes (defined as a city or a city region) that act as saddle points between a region and the global economy. While gateway regions have existed ever since

In this volume Anthony Reid positions Southeast Asia on the stage of world history. He argues that the region not only had a historical character of its own, but that it played a crucial role in shaping the modern world.Southeast Asia’s interaction with the forces uniting and transforming the world is explored through chapters focusing

Though described as the ‘world’s oldest profession’, prostitution is recognized by society neither as a valid form of employment nor an acceptable activity on the part of the customer. Prostitution has a long and varied history in Indonesia, starting before the colonial era, through decades of Dutch attempts to control the practice, to the institutionalization