Overview
- Considers the socio-political processes of urban contestations centered on housing in Asia
- Examines the importance of housing policies for the political legitimacy of Asian states
- Explores how the global pressure of neoliberalization has influenced the shaping of national housing questions
Part of the book series: The Contemporary City (TCONTCI)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Asian cities and neoliberalization
- Housing issues and urban contestation
- Housing and the political legitimacy of Asian states
- The shaping of national housing policies
- interaction of urban planning and social change in Asia
- Urban social movements and housing protests
- Urban movements and identity politics
- Economic neoliberalization and housing policy in Asia
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Reviews
“This book is an important milestone in the establishment of new urban and housing theories from Asia. Therefore, I proudly recommend this book for the must-read list of urban housing scholars.” (Tomoko Kubo, International Journal of Housing Policy, October 11, 2019)
“The fast-growing cities of Asia present problems of analysis that do not fit easily into the framework adopted by scholars examining cities in the West. While Asian cities are also undergoing neoliberalization, the strong hand of the state in shaping development within them causes institutional processes and distributive outcomes to differ from those in North America and Europe. Nowhere is this more significant than in the housing sector. In its examination and comparison of a range of Asian cities, this edited volume makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the interactions of the state and real-estate capital under conditions of rapid development, neoliberalization, and state sponsorship.” (Susan S. Fainstein, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard graduate School of Design, USA, and author of The City Builders, The Just City)“It is great to have this edited volume to critically address recent housing questions in Aisan cities. By showing how housing has become a key contested field in Asian cities, the contributions in this book nicely challenge the property hegemony of Asian societies, and enliven the debates on how to construct progressive alternatives for Asian urbanism. This engaging work definitely deserves a wide audience.” (Bae-Gyoon Park, Professor, Seoul National University, South Korea)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yi-Ling Chen is Associate Professor in International Studies and Geography at the University of Wyoming, USA. Her research examines the interaction of urban planning and social change, focusing on urban social movements, particularly those concerning housing access. Her published works are on housing, gender, urban movements, identity politics and regional development in Taiwan. She recently expanded her research to compare East Asian cities, Amsterdam, and Denver in their implementations of social housing.
Hyun Bang Shin is Professor of Geography and Urban Studies and the Director of Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Between 2017 and 2019, he is also Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. His research focuses on the critical analysis of the political economic dynamics of speculative urbanization, the politics of displacement, gentrification, mega-events, and the right to the city, with particular attention to Asian cities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Neoliberal Urbanism, Contested Cities and Housing in Asia
Editors: Yi-Ling Chen, Hyun Bang Shin
Series Title: The Contemporary City
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55015-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-51750-0Published: 24 April 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55015-6Published: 23 April 2019
Series ISSN: 2634-5463
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5471
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 216
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Globalization, Urban Studies/Sociology, Asian Culture, Political Sociology, Development Economics