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Libro 10 di 33: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

Askew, Marc

 
9780415596626: Vientiane: Transformations of a Lao landscape
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ISBN 10: 0415596629 ISBN 13: 9780415596626
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Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane’s landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao identity in the contemporary period. It is argued that the patterns of change seen through Vientiane’s past embody the key political and economic processes and transformations impacting on the people of Laos.

The Lao urban past has rarely been an object of attention by scholars. Laos, in fact, is continually portrayed as a rural backwater, marginal to the dynamic trends affecting most of the Southeast Asian mainland. In contrast to these persistent and static portrayals of Laos as a tiny landlocked backwater, with no significant urban present or past, the authors aim to document, explain and evaluate the significance of the Lao urban landscape.

Focusing on the theme of Vientiane’s ‘marginality’ in its various forms, the book interprets this apparent marginality as an historically-produced phenomenon resulting from geo-politics dating from the pre-colonial period and extending into the post-colonial period. Drawing on a wide range of research materials, Vientiane is the first work of its kind on this ignored city.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Marc Askew is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.

William Logan is Alfred Deakin Professor and holds the UNESCO Chair of Heritage and Urbanism in the School of History, Heritage and Society, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

Colin Long is a lecturer in cultural heritage at the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415596629
ISBN 13 
9780415596626
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
288
Contatto del produttore
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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