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Rural Villages as Socially Urban Spaces in Malaysia
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In this article, the authors argue that Malay kampungs are socially urban spaces, in so far as the lived experience of their residents largely conforms to characteristics of social life typically figured as urban.Abstract:
Summary. In Malaysia, Malay kampung or villages are modernity’s significant other in contemporary discourse. In contrast to this rhetoric, which reinforces a sense of rural–urban difference, this paper argues that Malay kampung are socially urban spaces, in so far as the lived experience of their residents largely conforms to characteristics of social life typically figured as ‘urban’. These include socioeconomic relationships characterised by occupational stratification, consumption and production based on commodification rather than subsistence, and social interactions marked by formal and attenuated social ties as much as informal and intimate relationships. Simultaneously nostalgic and derogatory narratives of modernity and urbanism fix kampung in social memory as sites marginal to and outside urban modernity. By contrast, the evidence presented in this paper suggests that the lives of kampung residents in contemporary Malaysia are substantially and qualitatively urban.read more
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Joining the Dots of Agrarian Change in Asia: A 25 Year View from Thailand
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace agrarian change in two settlements in Northeast Thailand over 25 years, distilled into three processes: a delocalisation of living, a disembedding of households, and a dissociation of the village-community, seen in a geriatrification of farming, the re-working of livelihood footprints, the generational drift of non-farm work, and increasing complexity in household form.
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Routledge handbook of Southeast Asian development
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Revisiting frontiers as transitional spaces in Thailand
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the notion of frontiers as 'in-between' spaces that define particular transitions and propose the frontier as both a spatial and temporal heuristic for understanding development and associated societal transitions in Thailand.
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Becoming and being urban in Hanoi: Rural-urban migration and relations in Viet Nam
TL;DR: This article developed a conceptual framework that provides five entry points to explore the process of becoming urban, and then applied the framework drawing on the experiences of migrants to Viet Nam's capital, Hanoi, and argued that even when migrants do return to their homelands they do so with altered priorities and on different terms.
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