Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia

The Social Production of Civic Spaces
Herausgeber: Douglass, Mike; Ooi, Giok Ling; Ho, K C

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Produktbeschreibung

Most research on globalization and civil society has focused on the West; this is the first book to bring together a tight analysis of Pacific Asian countries. It also theorizes and empirically explores the relationships between civil society and the production of urban spaces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415599597
• ISBN-10: 0415599598
• Artikelnr.: 32087896

Autorenporträt

Mike Douglass is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and the Director of the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawaii, USA. K.C. Ho is Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore. Giok Ling Ooi is Professor at the National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also Adjunct Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia 2. Civil
Society for Itself and in the Public Sphere 3. Governing Cities 4.
State-Society Relations, the City and Civic Space 5. Chinese Public Space
6. Mosques as a Type of Civic Space in Turbulent Times 7. Civic Space and
Integration in Chinese Peri-Urban Villages 8. The Pavement as Civic Space
9. Changing Community Relations and Emerging Civic Spaces in Shanghai
10. From Street Corners to Plaza 11. Transient Civic Spaces in Jakarta
Demopolis 12. Creating New Civic Realms in a Global City-State 13.
Bangkok's Sanam Luang (The Royal Ground) 14. International Meetings and
Dissent