Book Series in Geography

Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

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Cambodia's Neoliberal Order

Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space

By Simon Springer

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…

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June 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-56819-7 (Routledge)

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Gated Communities in China

Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life

By Choon-Piew Pow

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…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-47810-6 (Routledge)

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Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

Between Local and Global

Edited by John Connell, Eric Waddell

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…

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2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40414-3 (Routledge)

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Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor

A Critical Geography of Intelligent Landscapes

By Tim Bunnell

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…

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2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-25634-6 (Routledge)

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Made in the Philippines

By James A. Tyner

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…

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2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70015-3 (Routledge)

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Urbanisation in the Island Pacific

Towards Sustainable Development

By John Connell, John Lea

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…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-415-24670-5 (Routledge)

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Sex Work in Southeast Asia

The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS

By Lisa Law

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…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-21805-4 (Routledge)

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Landscapes of Globalization

Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines

By Philip F. Kelly

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…

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1999 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19159-3 (Routledge)

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