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Counter-global Cases for Place

Contesting Displacement in Globalising Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan Area

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ID10859428
AuthorsTim Bunnell (0000-0003-4811-3891, National University of Singapore, corresponding author), Alice M Nah (0000-0002-0253-0334, National University of Singapore, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume41
Issue12
Pages2447-2467
Publication date2004-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/00420980412331297627
OpenAlexW2023030647
LanguageEN
Citations received33
References cited24

The globalisation of greater Kuala Lumpur over the past two decades is manifested in extensive landscape transformation. This paper considers two groups affected by this 'global' landscaping: urban settlers without registered land title (conventionally termed setinggan or 'squatters'); and West Malaysia's minority indigenous Orang Asli. These groups have frequently been displaced as demand for land has risen and as emergent moral and aesthetic evaluations about suitably 'global' land use have rendered them 'out of place'. Yet the paper considers ways in which their land rights have been asserted within and beyond the courts by articulating and demonstrating in-place identities. Significantly, such socio-legal 'cases for place' have been forged through geographically extensive networks of resources and repertoires. Rather than 'local' resistance to global transformation, therefore, the cases here exemplify emergent 'counter-global' spatialities of power

Archaeology · Business · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Global city · Globalization · Indigenous · Kuala lumpur · Metropolitan area · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Right to the city · Sociology · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance

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Citations per year1,57
Citation span2005 - 2025 (21)
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