Social and Cultural Geographies of South-East Asia

• Main Authors: Bunnell, Tim, Kong, Lily, Law, Lisa
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: social geography; cultural geography; politics of social and cultural change; identity construction; Southeast Asia; Asian Studies; Human Geography; Urban Studies
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1709; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2966/viewcontent/SocCulturalGeog_SEA_2005.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The paper is an overview of English language publications that discuss what might be considered 'social' and 'cultural' geographies in Southeast Asia over the past two decades. We have strategically chosen two major themes that help us shape the mass of material into digestible strands: (1) the politics of social and cultural change; and (2) constructing identities. The former addresses various politics: the politics of nationhood; the politics of national development; the politics of cultural sites; the politics of urban change; and the politics of the global-local.