Globalization, the city, and civil society in Pacific Asia
Subtitle: the social production of civic spaces
By: edited by Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi.
Contributors: Douglass, Mike.; Ho, Kong-Chong, 1955-; Ooi, Giok Ling.
Series: Rethinking globalizations -- 6
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780415397896; 9780203939383
Subjects: Public spaces -- Political aspects -- Southeast Asia; Public spaces -- Social aspects -- Southeast Asia; Civil society -- Southeast Asia; Political participation -- Southeast Asia; Spatial behavior -- Southeast Asia; Culture and globalization -- Southeast Asia
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalization, the city, and civil society in Pacific Asia / Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho, and Giok Ling Ooi; title: Civil society for itself and in the public sphere : comparative research on globalization, cities, and civic space in Pacific Asia / Mike Douglass; title: Governing cities : civic spaces, civil society, and urban politics / K.C. Ho; title: State-society relations, the city, and civic space / Giok Ling Ooi; title: Chinese public space : a brief account / Heng Chye Kiang; title: Mosques as a type of civic space in turbulent times : a case study of globalizing Kuala Lumpur / Morshidi Sirat and Atikullah Hj. Abdullah; title: Civic space and integration in Chinese peri-urban villages / Michael Leaf and Samantha Anderson; title: The pavement as civic space : history and dynamics in the city of Hanoi / David Koh; title: Changing community relations and emerging civic spaces in Shanghai / Hanlong Lu; title: From street corners to plaza : the production of festive civic space in central Seoul / Myungrae Cho; title: Transient civic spaces in Jakarta demopolis / Merlyna Lim; title: Creating new civic realms in a global city-state / Limin Hee; title: Bangkok's Sanam Luang (the royal ground) : from a historic plaza to a civic space / Pornparn Boonchuen; title: International meetings and dissent : the city as political space for global issues / Joseph Boski.