Introduction: Place, Society and Politics Across Urban and Rural Asia

摘要: The chapters in this volume concern the politics of place four Asian nations: India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. They are about ever-evolving relationship between across rural urban places. categories deeply embedded naturalised our imagination cultural schemes places all nations discussed these chapters. One irony what Gavin Jones (1997) calls thorough-going urbanisation Asia is that even as any sharp distinction ways life has become increasingly blurred, social political implications difference have, if anything, intensified. We present here case studies many modes which ideas practices play out varied contexts.