Pacific Affairs

Volume 90 – No. 4

December 2017

SPECIAL ISSUE

Integrated Mega-Casinos as Speculative Urbanism in Southeast Asia

Guest Editor: Juan Zhang

Articles

Introduction: Integrated Mega-Casinos and Speculative Urbanism in Southeast Asia

Introduction: Integrated Mega-Casinos and Speculative Urbanism in Southeast Asia
Juan Zhang

Gambling on the Future: Casino Enclaves, Development, and Poverty Alleviation in Laos

Gambling on the Future: Casino Enclaves, Development, and Poverty Alleviation in Laos
Kearrin Sims

The State of Fun? Exclusive Casino Urbanism and Its Biopolitical Borders in Singapore

The State of Fun? Exclusive Casino Urbanism and Its Biopolitical Borders in Singapore
Juan Zhang and Brenda S.A. Yeoh

Networks of (Dis)trust and Gaming Development in the Philippines: PAGCOR and the Entertainment City

Networks of (Dis)trust and Gaming Development in the Philippines: PAGCOR and the Entertainment City
Vincente Chua Reyes, Jr.

Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld Resort and Casino

Phnom Penh’s NagaWorld Resort and Casino
Teri Shaffer Yamada

Perspectives

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Film Reviews

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Review Essays

“We as Peoples have the Right to Exist”: Threatened Nations and Climate Justice

“We as Peoples have the Right to Exist”: Threatened Nations and Climate Justice
Milla Emilia Vaha

Book Reviews

Asia General China & Inner Asia Northeast Asia South Asia & the Himalayas Southeast Asia Australasia & the Pacific Islands

Asia General

COMMODITIES, PORTS AND ASIAN MARITIME TRADE SINCE 1750 | Edited by Ulbe Bosma and Anthony Webster COMMODITIES, PORTS AND ASIAN MARITIME TRADE SINCE 1750 | Edited by Ulbe Bosma and Anthony Webster
Wim De Winter

DIVERGENT MEMORIES: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War | By Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider DIVERGENT MEMORIES: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War | By Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel Sneider
Ivo Plšek

THE BUSINESS OF CULTURE: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900–65 | Edited by Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland; foreword by Wang Gungwu THE BUSINESS OF CULTURE: Cultural Entrepreneurs in China and Southeast Asia, 1900–65 | Edited by Christopher Rea and Nicolai Volland; foreword by Wang Gungwu
Anna Belogurova

SCREEN ECOLOGIES: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region | By Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Kristen Sharp, and Linda Williams SCREEN ECOLOGIES: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region | By Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Kristen Sharp, and Linda Williams
Paul Roquet

THE POLITICS OF ISLAMIC LAW: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State | By Iza R. Hussin THE POLITICS OF ISLAMIC LAW: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State | By Iza R. Hussin
Lily Zubaidah Rahim<

China & Inner Asia

NGO GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT IN CHINA | Edited by Reza Hasmath and Jennifer Y.J. Hsu NGO GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT IN CHINA | Edited by Reza Hasmath and Jennifer Y.J. Hsu
Dingding Chen

FROM VILLAGE TO CITY: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat | By Andrew B. Kipnis FROM VILLAGE TO CITY: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat | By Andrew B. Kipnis
Gregory Veeck

GHOST PROTOCOL: Development and Displacement in Global China | Carlos Rojas and Ralph A. Litzinger, editors GHOST PROTOCOL: Development and Displacement in Global China | Carlos Rojas and Ralph A. Litzinger, editors
Nyíri Pál

ELUSIVE REFUGE: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War | By Laura Madokoro ELUSIVE REFUGE: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War | By Laura Madokoro
Diana Lary

MASCULINE COMPROMISE: Migration, Family, and Gender in China | By Susanne Y.P. Choi and Yinni Peng MASCULINE COMPROMISE: Migration, Family, and Gender in China | By Susanne Y.P. Choi and Yinni Peng
Wenqing Kang

REINVENTING CHINESE TRADITION: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism | By Ka-ming Wu REINVENTING CHINESE TRADITION: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism | By Ka-ming Wu
Yuezhi Zhao

THE AGE OF IRREVERENCE: A New History of Laughter in China | By Christopher Rea THE AGE OF IRREVERENCE: A New History of Laughter in China | By Christopher Rea
Andrew Stuckey

TAIWAN’S IMPACT ON CHINA: Why Soft Power Matters More than Economic or Political Inputs | Edited by Steve Tsang TAIWAN’S IMPACT ON CHINA: Why Soft Power Matters More than Economic or Political Inputs | Edited by Steve Tsang
Norbert Francis

Northeast Asia

JAPAN’S SECURITY RENAISSANCE: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century | By Andrew L. Oros JAPAN’S SECURITY RENAISSANCE: New Policies and Politics for the Twenty-First Century | By Andrew L. Oros
Thomas Wilkins

SHAKAI KAGAKU TOSHITE NO NIHON GAIKŌ KENKYŪ [JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH AS SOCIAL SCIENCE]: Riron to Rekishi no Tōgō o Mezashite [Integrating Theory and History] | By Tsuyoshi Kawasaki SHAKAI KAGAKU TOSHITE NO NIHON GAIKŌ KENKYŪ [JAPANESE FOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH AS SOCIAL SCIENCE]: Riron to Rekishi no Tōgō o Mezashite [Integrating Theory and History] | By Tsuyoshi Kawasaki
Sebastian Maslow

SINO-JAPANESE POWER POLITICS: Might, Money and Minds | By Giulio Pugliese, Aurelio Insisa SINO-JAPANESE POWER POLITICS: Might, Money and Minds | By Giulio Pugliese, Aurelio Insisa
Ming Wan

ITALY AND JAPAN: HOW SIMILAR ARE THEY?: A Comparative Analysis of Politics, Economics, and International Relations | Editors, Silvio Beretta, Axel Berkofsky, Fabio Rugge ITALY AND JAPAN: HOW SIMILAR ARE THEY?: A Comparative Analysis of Politics, Economics, and International Relations | Editors, Silvio Beretta, Axel Berkofsky, Fabio Rugge
Gabriele Abbondanza

THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF RAMEN: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze | By George Solt THE UNTOLD HISTORY OF RAMEN: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze | By George Solt
Joshua Evan Schlachet

RADIATION BRAIN MOMS AND CITIZEN SCIENTISTS: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima | By Aya Hirata Kimura RADIATION BRAIN MOMS AND CITIZEN SCIENTISTS: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima | By Aya Hirata Kimura
Cornelia Reiher

THE JAPANESE EMPIRE: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War | By S.C.M. Paine THE JAPANESE EMPIRE: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War | By S.C.M. Paine
Michael J. Green

HOMECOMINGS: THE BELATED RETURN OF JAPAN’S LOST SOLDIERS | By Yoshikuni Igarashi HOMECOMINGS: THE BELATED RETURN OF JAPAN’S LOST SOLDIERS | By Yoshikuni Igarashi
Sherzod Muminov

THE LIFE WE LONGED FOR: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan | By Laura Neitzel THE LIFE WE LONGED FOR: Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar Japan | By Laura Neitzel
Mark Jones

DVOCACY AND POLICYMAKING IN SOUTH KOREA: How the Legacy of State and Society Relationships Shapes Contemporary Public Policy | By Jiso Yoon DVOCACY AND POLICYMAKING IN SOUTH KOREA: How the Legacy of State and Society Relationships Shapes Contemporary Public Policy | By Jiso Yoon
Kyudong Park

SHADOW EDUCATION AND THE CURRICULUM AND CULTURE OF SCHOOLING IN SOUTH KOREA | By Young Chun Kim SHADOW EDUCATION AND THE CURRICULUM AND CULTURE OF SCHOOLING IN SOUTH KOREA | By Young Chun Kim
Julian Dierkes

IGNITING THE INTERNET: Youth and Activism in Postauthoritarian South Korea | By Jiyeon Kang IGNITING THE INTERNET: Youth and Activism in Postauthoritarian South Korea | By Jiyeon Kang
Kyong Yoon

BUILDING A HEAVEN ON EARTH: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese-Occupied Korea | By Albert L. Park BUILDING A HEAVEN ON EARTH: Religion, Activism, and Protest in Japanese-Occupied Korea | By Albert L. Park
Daniel Pieper

BURNT BY THE SUN: The Koreans of the Russian Far East | By Jon K. Chang BURNT BY THE SUN: The Koreans of the Russian Far East | By Jon K. Chang
Outi Luova

DECENTERING CITIZENSHIP: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea | By Hae Yeon Choo DECENTERING CITIZENSHIP: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea | By Hae Yeon Choo
Paul Y. Chang

DEVELOPMENTAL MINDSET: The Revival of Financial Activism in South Korea | By Elizabeth Thurbon DEVELOPMENTAL MINDSET: The Revival of Financial Activism in South Korea | By Elizabeth Thurbon
Thomas Kalinowski

IT’S MADNESS: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea | By Theodore Jun Yoo IT’S MADNESS: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea | By Theodore Jun Yoo
Mark Caprio

THE PROLETARIAN WAVE: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 | By Sunyoung Park THE PROLETARIAN WAVE: Literature and Leftist Culture in Colonial Korea, 1910–1945 | By Sunyoung Park
Travis Workman

TOURIST DISTRACTIONS: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema | By Youngmin Choe TOURIST DISTRACTIONS: Traveling and Feeling in Transnational Hallyu Cinema | By Youngmin Choe
Yongwoo Lee

South Asia & the Himalayas

CASTE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA | By Surinder S. Jodhka CASTE IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA | By Surinder S. Jodhka
Andrew Wyatt

RECOVERING FROM A DISASTER: A Study of the Relief and Reconstruction Process in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami | Edited by Arne Olav Øyhus RECOVERING FROM A DISASTER: A Study of the Relief and Reconstruction Process in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami | Edited by Arne Olav Øyhus
Michele Gamburd

WARZONE TOURISM IN SRI LANKA: Tales from Darker Places in Paradise | By Sasanka Perera WARZONE TOURISM IN SRI LANKA: Tales from Darker Places in Paradise | By Sasanka Perera
Nira Wickramasinghe

Southeast Asia

SHI‘ISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: ‘Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions | Edited by Chiara Formichi and R. Michael Feener SHI‘ISM IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: ‘Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions | Edited by Chiara Formichi and R. Michael Feener
Howard M. Federspiel

VIET NAM: Tradition and Change | By Hữu Ngọc; edited by Lady Borton and Elizabeth F. Collins VIET NAM: Tradition and Change | By Hữu Ngọc; edited by Lady Borton and Elizabeth F. Collins
Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox

MAN OR MONSTER: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer | By Alexander Laban Hinton MAN OR MONSTER: The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer | By Alexander Laban Hinton
D. Gordon Longmuir

THAI POLITICS: Between Democracy and Its Discontents | By Daniel H. Unger and Chandra Mahakanjana THAI POLITICS: Between Democracy and Its Discontents | By Daniel H. Unger and Chandra Mahakanjana
Kevin Hewison

BUDDHISM, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN MYANMAR | By Matthew J. Walton BUDDHISM, POLITICS, AND POLITICAL THOUGHT IN MYANMAR | By Matthew J. Walton
Bruce Matthews

FROM WORLD CITY TO THE WORLD IN ONE CITY: Liverpool Through Malay Lives | By Tim Bunnell FROM WORLD CITY TO THE WORLD IN ONE CITY: Liverpool Through Malay Lives | By Tim Bunnell
Anthony D. King

THE IMPACT OF STATE RESTRUCTURING ON INDONESIA’S REGIONAL ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE | By Adiwan Fahlan Aritenang THE IMPACT OF STATE RESTRUCTURING ON INDONESIA’S REGIONAL ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE | By Adiwan Fahlan Aritenang
Robert L. Curry Jr.

THE UPROOTED: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890–1980 | By Christina Elizabeth Firpo THE UPROOTED: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890–1980 | By Christina Elizabeth Firpo
Mai Bui Dieu Linh

DYNAMICS OF DEMOCRACY IN TIMOR-LESTE: The Birth of a Democratic Nation, 1999–2012 | By Rui Graça Feijó DYNAMICS OF DEMOCRACY IN TIMOR-LESTE: The Birth of a Democratic Nation, 1999–2012 | By Rui Graça Feijó
Douglas Kammen

Australasia & the Pacific Islands

CHRISTIANITY, CONFLICT, AND RENEWAL IN AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC | Edited by Fiona Magowan and Carolyn Schwarz CHRISTIANITY, CONFLICT, AND RENEWAL IN AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC | Edited by Fiona Magowan and Carolyn Schwarz
Stephanie Hobbis

DECOLONISATION AND THE PACIFIC: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire | By Tracey Banivanua Mar DECOLONISATION AND THE PACIFIC: Indigenous Globalisation and the Ends of Empire | By Tracey Banivanua Mar
Max Quanchi

WEAVING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY IN SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES | By Miranda Forsyth and Sue Farran WEAVING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY IN SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES | By Miranda Forsyth and Sue Farran
Toon van Meijl

MOTHERS’ DARLINGS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC: The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II | Edited by Judith A. Bennett and Angela Wanhalla MOTHERS’ DARLINGS OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC: The Children of Indigenous Women and U.S. Servicemen, World War II | Edited by Judith A. Bennett and Angela Wanhalla
Rodolfo Maggio

MEMORIALIZING PEARL HARBOR: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance | By Geoffrey White MEMORIALIZING PEARL HARBOR: Unfinished Histories and the Work of Remembrance | By Geoffrey White
Andrew J. Connelly

UNEARTHING THE POLYNESIAN PAST: Explorations and Adventures of an Island Archaeologist | By Patrick Vinton Kirch UNEARTHING THE POLYNESIAN PAST: Explorations and Adventures of an Island Archaeologist | By Patrick Vinton Kirch
John Barker

MAKING THE MODERN PRIMITIVE: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands | By Michelle MacCarthy MAKING THE MODERN PRIMITIVE: Cultural Tourism in the Trobriand Islands | By Michelle MacCarthy
Diane Losche