Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia

Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia focuses on the relationship between spatial dynamics of globalization and an active civil society by examining the different conditions in which civic spaces emerge in Pacific Asian cities. It makes the important argument that civic spaces are crucial to the production and meaning of liveable cities. Experiences from seven countries and at the global scale are brought together to illuminate how the engagement of civil society in the public sphere is contingent upon creating civic spaces for community life and collective action. The research brought together in this book addresses: The links between civic spaces and civil society: the different types of civic spaces and their connections to civil society efforts at organization and the controls and constraints state and capital interventions place on civic spaces. The social production of civic spaces: how the case studies speak to the formation and transformation of civic spaces in different contexts. Regulation of civic spaces: how state, capital and the community interact in and engage in contestations as well as cooperation over civic spaces. Civic spaces and community mobilization: how civic spaces are sites for the initiation of collective action and can be the outcomes of such action. This unique book provides a cogent analysis and a series of ten case studies on Pacific Asian countries, adding new research on globalization and civil society that has until now focused on the West. It will be of great interest to a broad range of disciplines including politics, urban studies, geography, sociology, globalization and Asian studies.Ho, K. C. is the author of 'Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415397896 and ISBN 0415397898.