Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
Transformations of a Lao landscape
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 233 mm x 165 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
Reihe: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
ISBN: 978-0-415-59662-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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 dynamic trends affecting most of the Southeast Asian mainland. In contrast to these persistent and static portrayals of Laos as a tiny landlocked backwater, with no significant urban present or past, the authors aim to document, explain and evaluate the significance of the Lao urban landscape.
Focusing on the theme of Vientiane’s ‘marginality’ in its various forms, the book interprets this apparent marginality as an historically-produced phenomenon resulting from geo-politics dating from the pre-colonial period and extending into the post-colonial period. Drawing on a wide range of research materials, Vientiane is the first work of its kind on this ignored city.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Garten- und Landschaftsarchitektur
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
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Foreword 1. Vientiane, Capital on the Margins: Urbanism, History and Lao Identity 2. Urbanism and the Lao World of the Mekong Valley 3. From Glory to Ruins 4. Land of the Lotus-Eaters: Vientiane under the French 5. Arena of the Cold War 6. The Pathet Lao Capital 7. Reshaping Vientiane in a Global age Notes Bibliography