The other Kuala Lumpur : living in the shadows of a globalising Southeast Asian city /

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Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge 2014.
Description:	xiii, 220 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge Malaysian studies series ; 15 Routledge Malaysian studies series ; 15.
Subject:	Marginality, Social -- Malaysia -- Kuala Lumpur. Sociology, Urban -- Malaysia -- Kuala Lumpur. Marginality, Social. Social conditions Sociology, Urban. Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) -- Social conditions. Malaysia -- Kuala Lumpur.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9952370

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Other uniform titles:	Yeoh, Seng Guan, Lepawsky, Josh, 1972- Globalising Kuala Lumpur and rationalising the street.
ISBN:	9780415730860 (hardback) 0415730864 (hardback) 9781315849881 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Kuala Lumpur, like many Southeast Asian cities, has changed very significantly in recent decades--expanding its size, "modernising" and "globalising". For many people these changes represent "progress". This book, however, focuses on the more marginalised sections of society, especially those people whose lives have been adversely affected by recent changes. It considers how the everyday lives of the marginalised in society have been affected by recent changes, showing how urban renewal, the law, and Malay nationalism and Islamicisation often work against many of these marginal groups, and examining how they struggle to survive"--

Table of Contents:

List of illustrations
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: The World Class City and subaltern Kuala Lumpur
2. Globalising Kuala Lumpur and rationalising the street: Hawkers and the aporias of urban renewal along Petaling Street and Jalan Masjid India
3. Can the law do justice? Everyday ethics and the transformation of urban life in Kuala Lumpur
4. Citizenship and the city: Visions and revisions of Malaysia
5. The moderate and the excessive: Performing Malay consumption
6. Housing Hindu deities in urban landscapes: Insights from Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
7. Seeking refuge in Kuala Lumpur: Self-help strategies to reduce vulnerability amongst refugees
8. The creation of sexual dissidence in Kuala Lumpur: The case of Seksualiti Merdeka
9. The last plantations in Kuala Lumpur
Index

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