ISBN10: 9971693364, ISBN13: 9789971693367, [publisher: National University of Singapore Press] Softcover New
[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 9971693364, ISBN13: 9789971693367, [publisher: National University of Singapore Press] Softcover Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 1.1
[Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 9971693364, ISBN13: 9789971693367, [publisher: Singapore Univ Pr] Softcover 255 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 9971693364, ISBN13: 9789971693367, [publisher: University of Hawaii Press, Singapore] Softcover Paperback. In Unsettling Absences, Eric Thompson argues that urbanism is a cultural force unbound from the city and is a pervasive presence in the Malaysian countryside. Transported to rural communities, urbanism has motivated migration, transformed the social lives of rural inhabitants, and created a deep ambivalence about personal identity. This has left rural Malays feeling out of place in both the city and the village. Kuala Lumpur epitomises modernity, but rural Malays who move there are often marginalised in squatter settlements on its periphery. The kampung symbolises home and the locus of Malay identity, but schoolbooks and television have projected urbanism that marks rural life as backwards and marginal in a forward-looking nation into the kampung. The 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"", Thompson challenges the meaning of ""urban"" while still recognising the powerful effects of an ideology of ""urbanism"". Unsettling Absences 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 ...
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ISBN10: 9971693364, ISBN13: 9789971693367, [publisher: National University of Singapore Press] Softcover Like New condition. Great condition, but not exactly fully crisp. The book may have been opened and read, but there are no defects to the book, jacket or pages. 1.1
[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

NUS Press, Date: 2007-03-28. Paperback. Used:Good. 2007. NUS Press ISBN 9971693364 9789971693367 [US]

ISBN10: 9971693364, ISBN13: 9789971693367, [publisher: National University of Singapore Press] Softcover Very Good condition. Shows only minor signs of wear, and very minimal markings inside (if any). 1.1
[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 9971693364, ISBN13: 9789971693367, [publisher: National University of Singapore Press] Softcover Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers. 1.1
[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 9971693364, ISBN13: 9789971693367, [publisher: National University of Singapore Press] Softcover Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library. 1.1
[Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

Singapore: NUS Press, Date: 2007. Paperback. New. Eric Thompson argues that urbanism has spread from the city to the countryside, motivating migartion to the city and treating the village (kampung) as backwards. In this book, he challenges the meaning of 'urban'. This issue is discussed in three parts which are Kuala Lumpur and kampung, practical urbanism and mediated urbanism. 255 pages with notes, glossary, bibliography and index. Weight: 0.6kg. Post free within Malaysia 2007. NUS Press ISBN 9971693364 9789971693367 [MY]