The Pacific Rim is the world's most dynamic region. The rate of political, social, economic and cultural change is considerable. This series focuses on the issues of environmental change, urban transformation, culture and local and regional restructuring. It incorporates the best of contemporary research to provide a range of volumes that examine the key developments taking place in the region.
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
Neoliberal economics have emerged in the post-Cold War era as the predominant ideological tenet applied to the development of countries in the global south. For much of the global south, however, the promise that markets will bring increased standards of living and emancipation from tyranny has...
Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China’s commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound...
Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
Managing rapid urban growth presents a significant challenge in the small independent countries of the Pacific Islands. Although they originated in colonial times, the towns and cities are now distinctively post-colonial, with economies, environments and social structures that reflect unique island...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
This volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the Asia-Pacific region, as global issues intersect with local contexts. Such challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have...
Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
Southeast Asian sex workers are stereotypically understood as passive victims of the political economy, and submissive to western men. The advent of HIV/AIDS only compounds this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism...
Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
Based on fieldwork in Malaysia, this book provides a critical examination of the country's main urban region. The study first provides a theoretical reworking of geographies of modernity and details the emergence of a globally-oriented, 'high-tech' stage of national development. The Multimedia...
Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
The Philippines is the world's largest exporter of temporary contract labor with a huge 800,000 workers a year being deployed on either six month or two year contracts. This labor migration is highly regulated by the government, private, and non-governmental/non-private organizations. Tyner argues...
Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
In this critical and sophisticated analysis, Philip F. Kelly challenges the conventional definition of globalization as an irresistible and inevitable force to which societies must succumb. By tracing the consequences of global economic integration in the Philippines, he argues that global...
Published December 15th 1999 by Routledge
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