New publication: Globalization, City and Civil Society
It’s been too long, really. More than three years. At last, finally the book from our civic space project is out. I have my chapter there, Chapter 11, about civic spaces in Jakarta. Sadly, the book is too expensive for regular people to buy so only libraries (in developed countries) will have the book. I wish this kind of book can be cheaper. But I am trying to get my e-copy so I can put it online, just like what I have been doing with my other publications. Fingers crossed, I hope to get the file very soon.
update Dec 15, 2007: the chapter is already online here.
Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia: The Social Production of Civic Spaces
Editor(s) - Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho, Giok Ling Ooi
Series: Rethinking Globalizations
ISBN: 9780415397896
ISBN-10: 0415397898
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 10/31/2007
Pages: 312
List of Chapters:
1. Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia Mike Douglass, K.C. Ho and Giok Ling Ooi
2. Civil Society for Itself and in the Public Sphere –– Comparative Research on Globalization, Cities and Civic Space in Pacific Asia Mike Douglass
3. Governing Cities: Civic Spaces, Civil Society and Urban Politics K.C. Ho
4. State-Society Relations, the City and Civic Space Giok Ling Ooi
5. Chinese Public Space: A Brief Account Heng Chye Kiang
6. Mosques as a Type of Civic Space in Turbulent Times: A Case Study of Globalizing Kuala Lumpur Morshidi Sirat and Atikullah Hj. Abdullah
7. Civic Space and Integration in Chinese Peri-Urban Villages Michael Leaf and Samantha Anderson
8. The Pavement as Civic Space: History and Dynamics in the City of Hanoi David Koh
9. Changing Community Relations and Emerging Civic Spaces in Shanghai Hanlong Lu
10. From Street Corners to Plaza: The Production of Festive Civic Space in Central Seoul Myungrae Cho
11. Transient Civic Spaces in Jakarta Demopolis Merlyna Lim
12. Creating New Civic Realms in a Global City-State Limin Hee
13. Bangkok’s Sanam Luang (The Royal Ground): From a Historic Plaza to a Civic Space Pornparn Boonchuen
14. International Meetings and Dissent: The city as political space for global issues Joseph Boski
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WOW!GREAT!
You’re famous and I’m jealous now. No really, I’ll love to read at least your chapter.
Congratulations.
mer: haha, thanks for being jealous…
well, don’t worry, i don’t want to be famous, but would love you to read my chapter. it’s published in my publication link. thank you for your support, Colson.
By colson on 12.06.07 1:22 am
CONGRATZ Mbak Mer!! I’m looking forward to read your chapter. I am sure that I don’t have online access (as maybe it is not published as an e-book?) or because our univ might not have subscription. Keep writing and all the best!
mer: thanks, Saut. i just got a file of my chapter, will soon publish it online.
By Saut Sagala on 12.07.07 9:20 am
Congrats! Proud of you, again. But three years is too long to wait. Gotta go the freeway.
Isn’t the information already obsolete? Well, the mystery of scholarly pubs.
mer: thank you. there’s no freeway in peer-reviewed world…. unfortunately. but the essence of high quality scholarly work is to publish something that’s never obsolete. Anderson’s Imagined Communities was published in 1980s, Geertz’s Religion of Java in 1960s, both of them aren’t obsolete today. this is different that some writings that are published in a flash mode which usually become outdated really fast.
By Jen on 12.09.07 8:15 pm
That makes sense. I’m more used to works by pundits and trade information. Interestingly, some pundits are scholars too and vice versa. And many of their works are highly regarded as well.
Too bad that many university publications are not getting the attention they deserve. It’s the age of punditocracy, apparently. (They are quite fascinating by the way, because they are great communicators.)
Anthropologists call them “modern day mythmakers,” since they make big generalizations and speak in colorful tones. According to them, Samuel Huntington is a “pundit” more than a scholar.
(Source: Why American Top Pundits are Wrong http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10323/10323.intro.html)
mer: I am not against punditocracy. But I am a scholar and not a pundit, and I just simply try to be a good scholar. Samuel Huntington is genius, but unfortunately he tends to oversimplify things. His taxonomy is simplistic and arbitrary and I do think he is being caught in the politics of legitimization (of the US empire).
By Jen on 12.13.07 5:06 pm
I’m looking forward to ‘reading’ your chapter!!!! ok?
mer: you’re welcome to download the chapter. i have provided the link above. many thanks for your interest!
By Jesus on 12.18.07 8:04 pm
[...] some exciting things of coming back to office today was to find a crisp beautiful hard copy of the Globalization, the City and Civil Society in Pacific Asia in my mailbox. Even more so was to find my article inside. Oooh… I am momentarily happy. The [...]
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