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Vientiane - Transformations of a Lao landscape (Hardcover)
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Vientiane - Transformations of a Lao landscape (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
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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 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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