Asian Research

Neoliberal Governance and International Medical Travel in Malaysia

By Meghann Ormond

Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

International medical travel (IMT), people crossing national borders in the pursuit of healthcare, has become a growing phenomenon. With many of the countries currently being promoted as IMT destinations located in the ‘developing’ world, IMT poses a significant challenge to popular assumptions...

Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge

Cambodia's Neoliberal Order

Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space

By Simon Springer

Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

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 much of the global south, however, the promise that markets will bring increased standards of living and emancipation from tyranny has...

Published June 23rd 2010 by Routledge

Gated Communities in China

Class, Privilege and the Moral Politics of the Good Life

By Choon-Piew Pow

Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

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 on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, Pow critically demonstrates how gated communities are bound...

Published July 6th 2009 by Routledge

Environment, Development and Change in Rural Asia-Pacific

Between Local and Global

Edited by John Connell, Eric Waddell

Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

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 challenges, from climatic change and volcanic eruption to population growth and violent civil unrest, have...

Published November 23rd 2006 by Routledge

Malaysia, Modernity and the Multimedia Super Corridor

A Critical Geography of Intelligent Landscapes

By Tim Bunnell

Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

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 geographies of modernity and details the emergence of a globally-oriented, 'high-tech' stage of national development. The Multimedia...

Published March 24th 2004 by Routledge

Made in the Philippines

By James A. Tyner

Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

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 two year contracts. This labor migration is highly regulated by the government, private, and non-governmental/non-private organizations. Tyner argues...

Published December 17th 2003 by Routledge

Urbanisation in the Island Pacific

Towards Sustainable Development

By John Connell, John Lea

Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

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 and cities are now distinctively post-colonial, with economies, environments and social structures that reflect unique island...

Published February 13th 2002 by Routledge

Sex Work in Southeast Asia

The Place of Desire in a Time of AIDS

By Lisa Law

Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

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 this image. Sex Work in Southeast Asia is a cultural critique of HIV/AIDS prevention programmes targetting sex tourism...

Published June 21st 2000 by Routledge

Landscapes of Globalization

Human Geographies of Economic Change in the Philippines

By Philip F. Kelly

Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

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 succumb. By tracing the consequences of global economic integration in the Philippines, he argues that global...

Published December 15th 1999 by Routledge