Book Series
Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies
New & Published Titles:
Gated Communities in China
Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life
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…
read moreJuly 2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47810-6 (Routledge)
Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific
Between Local and Global
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…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40414-3 (Routledge)
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Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor
A Critical Geography of Intelligent Landscapes
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… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-25634-6 (Routledge)
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Made in the Philippines
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… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70015-3 (Routledge)
Urbanisation in the Island Pacific
Towards Sustainable Development
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… read more2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-24670-5 (Routledge)
Sex Work in Southeast Asia
The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS
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… read more2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-21805-4 (Routledge)
Landscapes of Globalization
Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines
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… read more1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19159-3 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Cambodia's Neoliberal Order: Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space
By Simon Springer
To be published May 15th 2010