Aspiration in urban(izing) Southeast Asia

Bunnell, Tim; Goh, Daniel P. S.; Ng, Huiying

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“…These expectations and standards have affected both policymakers and societies, resulting in a mix of nationalist sentiments and colonial debris that can also lead to double standards between denouncing colonialism in monumental projects and holding colonial systems in high esteem in infrastructure development projects (Kusno, 2017b). Academic research and publications on urbanization in Southeast Asia in the early postcolonial period also followed this pattern, largely drawing on "Western experiences of urbanization, foregrounding economic motivations for rural-urban migration" (Bunnell, Goh & Ng, 2019), which reinforced the image of the aspirational city in reference to the colonial, European, or Western world in general.…”

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“…Studies of urbanization in Southeast Asia rarely address aspirations, despite their importance for many urban development-related phenomena (Bunnell et al, 2019): they "drive urban transformation, usually incrementally but sometimes also in revolutionary ways" (Goh et al, 2015: 291). Aspiration, explains Arjun Appadurai (2004), is not just an individual's desire or choice for a desired future but a "system of ideas" that comprises perceptions of "good life, health and happiness" (Bunnell et al, 2019: 54).…”

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“…Addressing aspirations in Southeast Asia's urban development highlights the importance of human imaginings of a better life and a good cityand how both context and power relations shape these (Bunnell et al, 2019). Focusing on aspirations offers a useful perspective for uncovering nuances in and influences on visions of urban futures; these visions are not fixed but continuously negotiated, and they involve struggles, resistance, and advocacy.…”

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Urban Development in Southeast Asia

Padawangi

2022

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Urbanization as a process is rife with inequality, in Southeast Asia as anywhere else, but resistance and contestation persist on the ground. In this element, the author sets out to achieve three goals: 1) to examine the political nature of urban development; 2) to scrutinize the implications of power inequality in urban development discussions; and 3) to highlight topical and methodological contributions to urban studies from Southeast Asia. The key to a robust understanding is groundedness: knowledge about the everyday realities of urban life that are hard to see on the surface but dominate how the city functions, with particular attention to human agency and the political life of marginalized groups. Ignoring politics in research on urbanization essentially perpetuates the power inequities in urban development; this element thus focuses not just on Southeast Asian cities and urbanization per se, but also on critical perspectives on patterns and processes in their development.

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Urban Development in Southeast Asia

Padawangi

2022

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“…Yet, the Southern problems of poor state funding, inadequate resources, fragmented governance may very well impede the final outcome. Nonetheless, the desire to become Creative remains strong from Nigeria to Indonesia, thus imploring scholars to take seriously the role of non-traditional actors (Cohen, 2015) and sheer aspirations as resources (Bunnell and Goh, 2012; Bunnell et al, 2018; Roy and Ong, 2011). In the case of Thailand, although the government initiated the Creative District project, it was led predominantly (and enthusiastically) by a wider base of actors.…”

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Learn from elsewhere: A relational geography of policy learning in Bangkok’s Creative District

Rugkhapan

2021

Environ Plan A

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The article investigates Charoengkrung Creative District as a site of cross-border policy learning. Heralded as Thailand's first creative district and a “prototype” for many more to come, Charoenkrung Creative District promises to rejuvenate the city through a participatory, broad-based approach. Rather than analyzing the creative district as a local intervention, the article foregrounds the transnational character of policymaking. It shows that while the policy intervention is local, it is globally inspired by the imaginaries of “successful” elsewheres. The paper analyzes the state's discourse of creativity as a global–local negotiation, whereby the local understanding of creativity is contingent upon (and therefore curtailed by) its selective perception of foreign successes. Building upon the notion of assemblage, it points to a collage of policy ideas and imaginaries of success, which are mobilized to promote the vision of the creative district at home.

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Semiotic timescapes

Lazar

2022

Lang. Soc.

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In linguistic/semiotic landscape (LSL) studies, overall, time and temporalities have occupied a curious space between visibility and invisibility, resulting in time and temporalities being treated as an optional, additive, subordinate, or separate dimension in the linguistic and semiotic study of place-making. The term semiotic timescape serves as a heuristic concept which endeavours to centre time and its imbrication with space/place, with an explicit focus on the semiosis of ‘temporalized place-making’. The five articles in this special issue highlight the ‘complex and multiplex’ dimensions of time (Adam 2008) interconnected with spaces/places, as important aspects in understanding social realities and practices, via entanglements with multimodal meaning-making, materialities, embodiment, and politics of social actors and communities. (Semiotic timescapes, interconnectedness of time and space, complexities and multiplexities, multimodality, materialities)*

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Aspiration in urban(izing) Southeast Asia

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Urban Development in Southeast Asia

Urban Development in Southeast Asia

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