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The Other Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur, like many Southeast Asian cities, has changed very significantly in the last two or three decades expanding its size, and modernising and globalising its built environment. For many people these changes represent progress and development. This book, however, focuses on the more marginalised residents of Kuala Lumpur. Among others, it considers street hawkers and vendors, refugees, the urban poor, religious minorities and a sexuality rights group, and explores how their everyday lives have been adversely affected by these recent changes. The book shows how urban renewal, the law and ethno-religious nationalism can work against these groups in wanting to live and work in the capital city of Malaysia.

Yeoh Seng Guan is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Monash University, Malaysia.

Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

Published in association with Malaysian Social Science Association (MSSA)

Series Editors

Mohammed Hazim Shah, University of Malaya

Shamsul A.B., University Kebangsaan Malaysia

Terence Gomez, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva

The Routledge Malaysian Studies Series publishes high quality scholarship that provides important new contributions to knowledge on Malaysia. It also signals research that spans comparative studies, involving the Malaysian experience with that of other nations.

This series, initiated by the Malaysian Social Science Association (MSSA) to promote study of contemporary and historical issues in Malaysia, and designed to respond to the growing need to publish important research, also serves as a forum for debate on key issues in Malaysian society. As an academic series, it will be used to generate new theoretical debates in the social sciences and on processes of change in this society.

The Routledge Malaysian Studies Series will cover a broad range of subjects including history, politics, economics, sociology, international relations, geography, business, education, religion, literature, culture and ethnicity. The series will encourage work adopting an interdisciplinary approach.

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Ethnicity, equity and reform
Edited by Edmund Terence Gomez
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3	Governments and Markets in East Asia
The Politics of Economic Crises
Jungug Choi
4	Health Care in Malaysia
The dynamics of provision, financing and access
Edited by Chee Heng Leng and Simon Barraclough
5	Politics in Malaysia
The Malay dimension
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6	Privatization in Malaysia
Regulation, rent-seeking and policy failure
Jeff Tan
7	The State, Development and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Societies
Ethnicity, equity and the nation
Edited by Nicholas Tarling and Edmund Terence Gomez
8	Race and Multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore
Edited by Daniel P.S. Goh, Matilda Gabrielpillai, Philip Holden and Gaik Cheng Khoo
9	Media, Culture and Society in Malaysia
Edited by Yeoh Seng Guan
10	Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia
Edited by Johan Saravanamuttu
11	Malaysias Development Challenges
Graduating from the middle
Edited by Hal Hill, Tham Siew Yean and Ragayah Haji Mat Zin
12	Ethnicization and Identity Construction in Malaysia
Frederik Holst
13	Malaysia and the Developing World
The Asian tiger on the cinnamon road
Jan Stark
14	Affirmative Action, Ethnicity and Conflict
Edited by Edmund Terence Gomez and Ralph Premdas
15	The Other Kuala Lumpur
Living in the shadows of a globalising Southeast Asian city
Edited by Yeoh Seng Guan

The Other Kuala Lumpur

Living in the shadows of a globalising Southeast Asian city

Edited by
Yeoh Seng Guan

First published 2014
by Routledge
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2014 selection and editorial material, Yeoh Seng Guan; individual chapters, the contributors

The right of Yeoh Seng Guan to be identified as author of the editorial material, and of the individual contributors as authors of their chapters, has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
The other Kuala Lumpur: living in the shadows of a globalising Southeast
Asian city/edited by Yeoh Seng Guan.
pages cm.(Routledge Malaysian studies series; 15)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Marginality, SocialMalaysiaKuala Lumpur. 2. Kuala Lumpur
(Malaysia)Social conditions. 3. Sociology, UrbanMalaysiaKuala
Lumpur. I. Yeoh, Seng Guan, editor of compilation. II. Lepawsky, Josh,
1972- Globalising Kuala Lumpur and rationalising the street.
HN700.6.K78O86 2014
306.095951dc23
2013029641

ISBN: 978-0-415-73086-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-84988-1 (ebk)

Typeset in Times New Roman
by Book Now Ltd, London

Contents

YEOH SENG GUAN

JOSH LEPAWSKY AND RODNEY C. JUBILADO

RICHARD BAXSTROM

JULIAN C. H. LEE

JOHAN FISCHER

VINEETA SINHA

ALICE M. NAH

JULIAN C. H. LEE

S. NAGARAJAN AND ANDREW WILLFORD

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Richard Baxstrom is Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008), the co-author of Evidence of Things Unseen: Benjamin Christensens Hxan (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming 2014), and the coeditor of

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