Research Catalog

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Description

1. xv, 255 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

1. "This book challenges city-bound urban studies by locating urbanism in a wider world that extends outside of the city, and shows the conflicted realities of rural dwellers in an overwhelmingly urban world. As others have challenged the meaning of "modernity", the author challenges the meaning of "urban" while still recognising the powerful effects of an ideology of "urbanism". The book is a call to take seriously place-based identities and cultural geographies in a world where the urban/rural divide is dissolving in practice but in cultural terms remains as powerful as ever."--Back cover.

Alternative title

1. Urbanism in rural Malaysia

Subject

1. Sociology, Rural > Malaysia > Case studies
2. Rural-urban relations > Malaysia > Case studies
3. Rural-urban relations
4. Sociology, Rural
5. Ländlicher Raum
6. Urbanität
7. Modernität
8. Binnenwanderung
9. Antropologi > Malaysia
10. Landsbygdssociologi > Malaysia
11. Urbanisering > Malaysia
12. Malaysia

Genre/Form

1. Case studies.

Contents

1. 1. Introduction -- pt. I. Kuala Lumpur and kampung -- 2. Kuala Lumpur -- 3. Kampung -- pt. II. Practical urbanism -- 4. Circulation and migration -- 5. Production and labor -- 6. Social interaction -- pt. III. Mediated urbanism -- 7. Schooling -- 8. Television -- 9. Migrant narratives -- 10. Desire and identity in KL-and-kampung.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-241) and index.