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Guarding the Neighbourhood: The New Landscape of Control in Malaysia

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  • Peter Aning Tedong
  • Jill Linda Grant
  • Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz
  • Faizah Ahmad
  • Noor Rosly Hanif

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While securitised enclaves have become a global phenomenon, case studies of particular nations reveal the unique interplay between local conditions and international influences. This article presents the first major empirical study of gated developments in Malaysia. We found two types of enclosures being produced in urban Malaysia. Market-produced gated communities, attracting affluent households to live within elegant walls, dominate new growth areas in major cities. Guarded neighbourhoods are a post-market product: that is they result from resident-initiated actions to impose makeshift boundaries and controls in older neighbourhoods. Although concerns about safety and security permeate the national discourse around gates and guards, new structures of enclosure reinforce and reproduce shifting structures of inequality, class and ethnicity in urban Malaysia.

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  • Peter Aning Tedong & Jill Linda Grant & Wan Nor Azriyati Wan Abd Aziz & Faizah Ahmad & Noor Rosly Hanif, 2014. "Guarding the Neighbourhood: The New Landscape of Control in Malaysia," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(8), pages 1005-1027, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:29:y:2014:i:8:p:1005-1027
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.923089
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    1. Khoo, Boo Teik, 2010. "Social movements and the crisis of neoliberalism in Malaysia and Thailand," IDE Discussion Papers 238, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).
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    1. Woei-Chyuan Wong & Adilah Azhari & Nur Adiana Hiau Abdullah & Chee Yin Yip, 2019. "Estimating the impact of crime risk on housing prices in Malaysia," International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 13(5), pages 769-789, November.

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