The immigration debate; a challenge for Asian studies
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 47-56
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In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 47-56
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 61-62
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 9, Issue 2, p. 150-156
In: Urban studies, Volume 35, Issue 12, p. 2303-2321
ISSN: 1360-063X
Scholars, as area specialists, have typified south-east Asian cities as Third World cities and emphasised their uniquely south-east Asian or even national characteristics. This paper will argue that the early decades of decolonisation which gave rise to this perspective were in fact a transitional phase. In the late colonial period south-east Asian cities were already becoming more like Western cities. Since the 1980s, in the era of globalisation, this process of convergence has re-emerged. Clearly, there should now be a single urban discourse. This is not to deny that south-east Asian (or Third World) cities have distinctive elements. The problem is the paradigm which shuts out First World elements.
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 4, Issue 3, p. 103-107
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 10, Issue 1, p. 204-208
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 5, Issue 3, p. 97-102
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 5, Issue 2, p. 77-107
In: Asian studies review, Volume 15, Issue 1, p. 187-249
ISSN: 1467-8403
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 12, Issue 1, p. 111-161
In: Asian Studies Association of Australia. Review, Volume 2, Issue 2, p. 63-117