From World City to the World in One City: Liverpool through Malay Lives

From World City to the World in One City examines changing geographies of Liverpool through and across the lives of Malay seamen who arrived in the city during its final years as a major imperial port. Draws upon life histories and memories of people who met at the Malay Club in Liverpool until its closure in 2007, to examine changing urban sites and landscapes as well as the city s historically shifting constitutive connections In considering the historical presence of Malay seamen in Liverpool, draws attention to a group which has previously received only passing mention in historical and geographical studies of both that city, and of multi–ethnic Britain more widely Demonstrates that Liverpool–based Malay men sustained social connections with Southeast Asia long before scholars began to use terms such as globalization or transnationalism Based on a diverse range of empirical data, including interviews with members of the Malay Club in Liverpool and interviews in Southeast Asia, as well as archival and secondary sources Accessibly–written for non–academic audiences interested in the history and urban social geography of Liverpool INDICE: List of Figures .List of Abbreviations and Acronyms .Glossary of Non–English Terms .Acknowledgements .Prologue .1 Introduction: Locating Malay Liverpool .Worlds of Connection, Worlds in Cities .Sites and Routes of Fieldwork .Organization of the Book .2 From the Malay World to the Malay Atlantic .Liverpool in the Alam Melayu .Malays in the New York of Europe and in New York .The Malay Atlantic .3 Home Port Liverpool and Its Malay Places .Somewhere worth Staying? .Remembering Cosmopolitanism and its Limits .Home and Away .Places to Be Malay .4 Merseyside Malaise and the Remaking of British Malaya .Transationalization and Malaysianization .Student Connections: From Kirkby to the Inner City .Urban Malaise .5 Diasporic (Re)connections .In Search of Lost Ancestors .Diaspora Envy and Worldly Malay–ness .Old Malays versus the Islamized New Malay .6 Relocating Expectations of Modernity .Kuala Lumpur: Journeys to the New Centre of the Malay World .Tandas–ization: Excremental Transition in Malacca .Returning to Singapore: From Third World to First .7 Community in the Capital of Culture .The Place of Community .Glasgowing and Beyond: Towards Multicultural Regeneration .Marking Malays(ia) on the Map of the World in One City .8 The Last Hurrah: From Independence Celebrations and Interculturalism to Club Closure .Merdeka on the Mersey .Performing Malay–ness on Jermyn Street .Community Conflict and Urban Interculturalism .Death in the Place of Community .9 Conclusion: Catching up with Kuala Lumpur? .Comparative, Conceptual and Methodological Returns .Key Lifepaths .Bibliography .Index

• ISBN: 978-1-118-82774-1
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 12/04/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés