Vientiane
Transformations of a Lao landscape
Providing insights into this neglected Southeast Asian city, this interesting book interprets Vientiane's landscape - physical as well as imagined - as a reflection of key aspects of Lao geo-political history, the nature of Lao urbanism, and its critical relation to constructions of Lao identity in the contemporary period. It is argued that the patterns of change seen through Vientiane's past embody the key political and economic processes and transformations impacting on the people of Laos. The Lao urban past has rarely been an object of attention by scholars. Laos, in fact, is continually portrayed as a rural backwater, marginal to the dyna…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Long, Colin / Logan, William
- ISBN: 978-1-134-32364-7
- EAN: 9781134323647
- Produktnummer: 14828882
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'683 KB
- Abbildungen: 37 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen, 31 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 6 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen, 5 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Marc Askew is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia.William Logan is Alfred Deakin Professor and holds the UNESCO Chair of Heritage and Urbanism in the School of History, Heritage and Society, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.Colin Long is a lecturer in cultural heritage at the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
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