Globalisation and the Politics of Forgetting

ISBN-13: 9781138975255 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str.

Yong-Sook Lee;Brenda S.A. Yeoh;¬Abar

Opis

This book - previously published as a special issue of the journal Urban Studies - focuses on the politics of forgetting at work in a globalising world and the production of 'other' places, cities and regions.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The Work of Forgetting and Remembering Places 3. Urban Political Economy Beyond the 'Global City' 4. Local Memory and Worldly Narrative: The remote city in America and Japan 5. Rural Villages as Socially Urban Spaces in Malaysia 6. Whither Nationalist Urbanism?: Public life in Governor Sutiyoso's Jakarta 7. Debt Restructuring and the Politics of Exclusion: A case study of the Daewoo Motor Bupyeong plants in Incheon, South Korea 8. The Politics of Forgetting: Class politics and the restructuring of urban space in India 9. Cosmopolitanism and its Exclusions in Singapore 10. Counter-Global Cases for Place: Contesting displacement in globalising Kuala Lumpur metropolitan area 11. Planning to Forget: Informal settlement as 'forgotten places' in globalising metro Manila

O autorze

Yong-Sook Lee, Brenda S.A. Yeoh