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This book analyses the cultural politics of urban development in Gwangju, South Korea, and illustrates the implementation of state-led arts-based urban boosterism efforts in the context of political trauma and the desire for economic growth.

With the economic growth of the Asia-Pacific region in the twentieth century came environmental change. Using case studies from mainland Southeast Asia and the Island Pacific, this book examines the processes of development and disruption that have led to concern over the use and sustainability of the region's natural resources.

Interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China's commodity housing enclaves. Drawing on fieldwork and survey conducted in Shanghai, this book demonstrates how gated communities are bound up in the cultural reproduction of middle-class landscape that is entrenched in the politics of the good life.

Labour migration is regulated by the government private, and non-governmental/non-private organizations. Tyner argues that migrants are socially constructed by these parties and that migrants in turn become political resources.

In this critical and sophisticated analysis, Philip F. Kelly challenges the conventional definition of globalization as an irresistible and inevitable force to which societies must succumb.

Bringing together case studies from across mainland Southeast Asia and the Island Pacific, this volume examines the economic, political, social and environmental challenges facing rural communities in the region.

The contributors to this book have all conducted long term research in the islands of the Pacific. During their visits and revisits they have witnessed first-hand the many changes that have occurred in their field sites as well as observing elements of continuity.