Unsettling Absences: Urbanism in Rural Malaysia

by Eric C. Thompson

In Unsettling Absences, Eric Thompson argues that urbanism is a cultural force unbound from the city and is a pervasive presence in the Malaysian countryside. Transported to rural communities, urbanism has motivated migration, transformed the social lives of rural inhabitants, and created a deep ambivalence about personal identity. This has left rural Malays feeling out of place in both the city and the village. Kuala Lumpur epitomises modernity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9971693364
• ISBN13: 9789971693367
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: NUS Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"