Reluctant Capital: Essays on Kuala Lumpur

Reluctant Capital: Essays on Kuala LumpurReluctant Capital traces Kuala Lumpur's uneasy transformation through essays that weave critical urban theory with grounded research. Badrul Hisham Ismail examines how state developmentalism, neoliberal reform, and ethnic governance shape the city's form and its inequalities. From abandoned masterplans to contested megaprojects, and from official visions of progress to the everyday realities of displaced and marginalised communities , the book reveals

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One of the few genuinely comic novels since Lucky Jim

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The Death and Life of Gentrification sheds critical light on the changing meaning of gentrification in contemporary life

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No Name in the Street grapples with the failed promises of global liberation movements in fearless

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