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Globalization, Urbanization, and Civil Society is an
interdisciplinary compilation of chapters concerning civil society
in the global geopolitical context. The establishment of civil
society is essential for urbanism and the global community because
it is the sense and essence of development concerning what
humankind is, as a collective entity on the globe. This
thought-provoking book covers the multidimensional aspects, issues,
challenges, and consequences of geopolitics and globalization on
civil society, including freedom in the public sphere, alienation,
neo-fascism, social cohesion, racial inequality, political
narcissism, political-economic exceptionalism, Islamic radicalism,
social justice, and resistance. The author brings a fresh and
essentially non-Western critical perspective to bear on the
fundamental challenges faced by civil society as a result of the
globalization of corporate capitalism in the Digital Age, as well
as providing a rich perspective on colonialism. This book will
appeal to scholars and graduate students of geopolitics and
globalization, global development, sociology, international
relations, cultural studies, psychology, and philosophy, as well as
practitioners and policymakers who are interested in
interdisciplinary approaches in the field of global studies.
The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between
Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia. It presents
selected historic mosques that demonstrate local interpretations
and sociocultural assimilation, as well as a geographical
syncretism, of Islam in local societies. The book unveils the
contestations, synchronizations, assimilations, and integrations of
local and foreign elements into the contextual architecture and
sociologically institutionalized system that is the mosque: the
Islamic place of worship. The author excavates the mosque’s
historical origins and traces the iconic elements, features, and
designs from their earliest historical settings and contexts. He
then identifies, analyzes, and theorizes the outcomes of the
interaction between Islam and local traditions through Malaysian
and Indonesian case studies. The book proposes that Islam, at its
philosophical level, can be culturally acceptable anywhere because
it contains universal virtues of humanity for equality, fraternity,
and social justice. The book unfolds how a dialectical contestation
and acculturation of Dutch colonialism, Middle Eastern elements of
culture, and local customs and traditions, might then come into
dialogue, peacefully. Finally, the book considers the relationship
between Malay and Indonesian architecture within their respective
political cultures, shedding light on Islam and its practice within
rich multicultural contexts. Relevant to students and researchers
in Islamic studies, architecture, and Southeast Asian studies more
broadly, the book uncovers the issues, constraints, and
opportunities relating to the meaning of mosques for Muslims in
Malaysia and Indonesia.
This book is a fascinating, wide-reaching interdisciplinary
examination of urbanism in the context of humanities and social
sciences research, comprising cutting-edge theoretical and
empirical investigations of urban livability and sustainability.
Urban livability is explored as a phenomenon of happenings that
gather people, things, and domains in the specific spatiotemporal
context of the city; this context is the life-world of urbanism.
Meanwhile, sustainability is conceived of as the capacity of
urbanism that enables people to cultivate their sociocultural and
economic existence and development without the depletion of their
current resources in the future. In this study, phenomenology is
uniquely incorporated as a way of seeing things according to their
presence in space and time.
This book is a recollection and reflection of various
accomplishments on human endeavours; it is an attempt to attain a
comprehensive understanding on humanities. Such an attempt is in
the hope that engenders interdisciplinary discourses beyond
traditional disciplines in human and social sciences. The nature of
this study is an original inquiry into the manifold of human works.
The purpose is to broaden and deepen our understanding on the sense
and essence of human works, in various forms and functions, from
knowledge, arts, literature, sport, and technology. The manuscript
is dedicated to specialists and generalists in humanities and
social sciences, who are interested in thinking and reflection on
human endeavours for the sustainability of environment and
humanity. The manuscript is organized into nine chapters: Of
Knowledge, Of Design, Of Technology, Of Art, Of Movie, Of Sport, Of
Literature, Of Dress and Of Culture.
This ambitious text is a monograph about human experiences
concerning the potentialities, capacities, and features of
humankind from the wholeness of the collective mind body spirit.
The purpose in reframing human endeavors is for enhanced alignment
for livability and sustainability. This book departs from the
concept and practice of “design and technology” and argues that
most crises that endanger and destruct our ecological livability
and sustainability come from our way of thinking and doing with
“design and technology” based on the necessity for control. It
is the control for overcoming the fear of scarcity, starvation, and
the unknown. This book is rather an attempt to find alternate way
of decision-making thru holistic methods. It appeals to researchers
working in design, sustainability, architecture and urban studies.
This monograph brings three branches of philosophy together:
epistemology, ethics and aesthetics. It assesses the built
environment as a case study from a phenomenological perspective.
Under the notion of phenomenology, this study understands the built
environment as the hermeneutical phenomenon of being in the
life-world that is experienced by people within the socio-cultural
and historical context of habitation. Hermeneutically, the built
environment as a phenomenon is contextually interwoven with other
phenomena within the socio-cultural, historical, and environmental
network. Phenomenologically speaking, the task of the study is to
excavate, listen to, unfold, divulge, and reconstruct the
socio-culturally, environmentally, and historically constructed
relationship between people and their built environment that build,
develop, and elaborate the system of knowledge, ethics, and
aesthetics. By and large, its nature and findings are theoretical
and interdisciplinary, so it will be of interest not only for
philosophers, but also to scholars studying urban development and
anthropology.
This book is a fascinating, wide-reaching interdisciplinary
examination of urbanism in the context of humanities and social
sciences research, comprising cutting-edge theoretical and
empirical investigations of urban livability and sustainability.
Urban livability is explored as a phenomenon of happenings that
gather people, things, and domains in the specific spatiotemporal
context of the city; this context is the life-world of urbanism.
Meanwhile, sustainability is conceived of as the capacity of
urbanism that enables people to cultivate their sociocultural and
economic existence and development without the depletion of their
current resources in the future. In this study, phenomenology is
uniquely incorporated as a way of seeing things according to their
presence in space and time.
Javanese Culture and the Meanings of Locality: Studies on the Arts,
Urbanism, Polity, and Society is an examination of the social and
cultural geography of Java. This book penetrates and surveys the
Javanese world, and examines the traditions, customs, arts, urban
habitation, polity, history, and belief systems of people who speak
the Javanese language and live on Java Island in the Indonesian
archipelago. A primary focus in these essays is to analyze the
meanings of locality in the context of arts, architecture, polity,
and society, with the hope of unveiling the potential of local
culture in enriching and strengthening the diversity of the global
world.
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