Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia

CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Place, society and politics across urban and rural Asia:Eric C. Thompson, Tim Bunnell and D. Parthasarathy.- PART I: INDIA: CHAPTER 2: Rural, Urban, Regional: Re-Spatializing Capital and Politics in India: D. Parthasarathy.- CHAPTER 3: Rural youth as real estate entrepreneurs in globalizing Hyderabad: Anant Maringanti.- CHAPTER 4: Livelihoods and Development: Socio-economic Exclusion in Mumbai's Hinterland: Stephen Louw and Parthsarathi Mondal.- PART II: INDONESIA: CHAPTER 5: Regional governance in decentralizing Indonesia: Learning from the success of inter-local government cooperation in Metropolitan Yogyakarta: Fikri Zul Fahmi, Delik Hudalah and Tommy Firman.- CHAPTER 6: Urban-Rural Connections: Banda Aceh through Conflict, Tsunami and Decentralization: Michelle Ann Miller and Tim Bunnell.- CHAPTER 7: Urbanization without development: The cases of Cirebon and Gresik on Java's North Coast: Riwanto Tirtosudarmo: PART III: MALAYSIA.- CHAPTER 8: Sense of place and the politics of 'insider-ness' in villages undergoing transition: the case of city kampung on Penang island : Suriati Ghazali.- CHAPTER 9: Gender and the interplay of rural and urban: A Malaysian case: Maila Stivens.- CHAPTER 10: Urban Cosmopolitan Chauvinism and the Politics of Rural Identity: Eric C. Thompson: PART IV: THAILAND: CHAPTER 11: Gendered Nation and Classed Modernity: The Perceptions of Mia Farang (Foreigners' Wives) in Thai Society: Sirijit Sunanta.- CHAPTER 12: Redrawing Thai Political Space: The Red-shirt Movement: Chairat Charoensin-o-larn.- CHAPTER 13: The City as Promise and Ruin: The supernatural and urban change in Chiang Mai: Andrew Johnson.