Coastal urbanities: mobilities, meanings, manoeuvrings

"This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. Drawing inspiration from case studies spanning Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and New Caledonia, the volume rethinks the place of th...

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Weitere Verfasser: Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Rapti (HerausgeberIn), Low, Kelvin E. Y. (HerausgeberIn), Abdullah, Noorman (HerausgeberIn), Hornidge, Anna-Katharina 1978- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Social sciences in Asia Volume 42
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Zusammenfassung:"This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. Drawing inspiration from case studies spanning Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and New Caledonia, the volume rethinks the place of the sea in coastal cities, through a mobility-inspired understanding of urbanity itself. How might conceptualisations of contemporary coastal urbanisms be approached from the sea, in ways that complicate singularly terrestrial, fixed framings of the city? What connections, contradictions, and dissonances can be found between sea change and urban change? While addressing these questions, the authors re-centre more marginal voices of those who dwell and work in islanded metropoles, offering new insights on the futures and contested nature(s) of littoral urban transformation"--
Beschreibung:XII, 236 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9789004511088

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