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1. Gated Communities in China

   Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life

   By Choon-Piew Pow

   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 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Urbanisation in the Island Pacific

   Towards Sustainable Development

   By John Connell, John Lea

   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
3. Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

   Between Local and Global

   Edited by John Connell, Eric Waddell

   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
4. Sex Work in Southeast Asia

   The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS

   By Lisa Law

   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 9th 2011 by Routledge
5. Cambodia's Neoliberal Order

   Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space

   By Simon Springer

   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 June 23rd 2010 by Routledge
6. Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor

   A Critical Geography of Intelligent Landscapes

   By Tim Bunnell

   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
7. Made in the Philippines

   By James A. Tyner

   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
8. Landscapes of Globalization

   Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines

   By Philip F. Kelly

   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