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Urbanization and civic space in Asia / Mike Douglass and Amrita Daniere -- Communities in retreat : civic spaces and state-society relations in globalizing Singapore / K.C. Ho -- Machizukuri, civil society, and community space in Japan / André Sorensen, Hideki Koizumi and Ai Miyamoto -- Foreign workers and spaces for community life : Taipei's Little Philippines / Liling Huang and Mike Douglass -- Tangible and intangible civic spaces in Bangkok's slums / Amrita Daniere and Anchana Naranong -- The meaning of voice in Kuala Lumpur's changing urban communities / Yi Jin Woo -- Kampung spaces and the future of Indonesian urbanism : reflections from Jogjakarta / Michael Leaf and Bakti Setiawan -- Boundaries and belonging in Guangzhou : changing the nature of residential space in urban China / Alana Boland and Jiangang Zhu -- Neighbourhood associations as civic space in Kathmandu : progressive and regressive possibilities / Sabin Ninglekhu and Katharine N. Rankin -- Uses and understandings of public space among young : people in Hanoi, Vietnam / Lisa Drummond and Nguyen Thi Lien -- Policy implications and conclusion / Amrita Daniere and Mike Douglass

"The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks and associations), in diverse parts of Asia. Addressing the pressing need for improved governance within the spatial, political and cultural realities in the rapidly transforming landscapes of Asia, the contributors to the book bring together interdisciplinary work that focuses on the ways in which civic engagement can link with social capital building efforts, particularly in terms of enhancing the interaction between state and community efforts, to create vibrant societies."--Publisher's description.

Recent transformative resilience research calls for urban climate interventions that better meet the needs of low-income and other marginalized groups. Such initiatives, it is suggested, must move beyond technocratic and superficial solutions to address the systems and structures that create climate vulnerability. While these are important theoretical developments, there is still much to be learned about how to support transformative resilience on the ground. This paper situates transformative resilience theory in practice with lessons from a five-year research partnership in Southeast Asian cities. We argue that for resilience research to advance rights and justice, knowledge production and mobilization efforts must be conceptualized as active parts of the transformation process. Bringing together conceptual and methodological insights from resilience, political ecology and governance learning research, we offer three pathways for transformative resilience and present examples of how they can be operationalized in Southeast Asia and beyond.