I am a graduate student in anthropology here at York university, Toronto and
my interests are into environmental anthropology and urban geography.
My research interests are mainly into the the contemporary politics of urban
development in the city of Bombay, India. For the past few months, I have been
following some literature on South East Asian urbanization and was quite
intrigued by the critique of western geographical models of urbanization by
the Canadian geographer,Terry McGee in his work on Malaysian cities.I am
referring to his model of "desakota" where he argues that the Asian variation
of the model of suburbanization is distinctive.
As an outsider to geography, but as some one who is interested in the
cultural critiques of western geography. I was wondering how much of his work
has been applied to explain metropolitan expansion elsewhere in Asia? Moreover
to what extent is his critique of the Eurocentric nature of western geography
applicable to other Asian contexts such as India? I would also be interested
in starting a discussion on the list if possible, on his work.
warm regards
Bharat
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