| ID | 156690 |
| Title Proper | Integrated mega-casinos and speculative Urbanism in Southeast Asia |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Zhang, Juan |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, luxurious mega-casino resorts have become spectacles of economic growth across diverse destinations in Asia. With its emphasis on large-scale integrated resorts (IR), the casino and leisure industry is a site of economic rejuvenation even as it offers spaces of moral corruption. Integrated mega-casinos are ambiguous projects of development, driving the speculative processes of place-making for accumulation, social control, and global competition. This editorial introduction focuses on three main themes. First, mega-IR projects show the historical and complicated relations between state power and the gambling economy. Second, Southeast Asia’s new mega-casinos are emblematic of speculative urbanism and its experiments. Third, casino-as-development consolidates the differentiated treatment of citizen subjects and gives legitimacy to the biopolitical governance of citizen practices, claims, and urban participation. |
| `In' analytical Note | Pacific Affairs Vol. 90, No.4; Dec 2017: p.651-674 |
| Journal Source | Pacific Affairs Vol: 90 No 4 |
| Key Words | Southeast Asia ; Urban Development ; Gambling ; Speculation ; Casinos ; Integrated Resorts ; Neoliberal Urbanism |