""Spring 2006
Room CB 304
Mon & Wed 1:00-2:15pm

Professor T. R. Leinbach
1477 Patterson Office Tower
Voice: 257-1276
email: leinbach@uky.edu

OFFICE HOURS
Mon & Web 9-10am; Fri 10-noon
or by appointment

Course Description:

The course will be built around lectures, discussions and readings with the purpose of creating a greater awareness and understanding of the Southeast Asia region. A major focus will be the nature of development particularly in the contemporary period. But in addition the history and culture of the nations will be discussed as they apply to development conditions. Especially important are spatial aspects of the various development situations. Environmental settings, historical circumstances, as well as, institutions and culture are recognized as keys to the understanding of development conditions and progress.

Major emphases coincide with themes of population, urbanization, resources, agrarian structure, industrialization in the global economy and rural development. Select concepts and illustrations will be used to highlight, identify, and explain development progress or the lack thereof. The region includes Vietnam , Laos , Cambodia , Thailand , Burma , Malaysia , Singapore , Indonesia , Brunei Darussalam, Timor and the Philippines . In addition to lectures and discussions frequent use will be made of slides, videos, and films which focus on a variety of issues within these countries.

Course Requirements:

  1. The course will have two formal exams (including a final). It is important to be able to explain your understanding of particular concepts in the geography of Southeast Asia from readings and discussions and to identify the significance of places and locate these on a map of the region. Both short and longer essays will also be part of the examinations. Announced quizzes are possible throughout the semester .

  2. In addition each student will be required to prepare a short (8-10 pages) research paper on a "development problem or issue" within the Southeast Asian region. A separate handout will provide information on the required structure of the paper, the referencing system and sample topics.

  3. A critical review of a major book or movie focusing on some aspect of Southeast Asia may be completed for extra credit. The GEO 332 web site provides titles of books and movies which must be approved by the instructor.

The exams and possible quizzes will account for approximately 75 percent of the grade; the writing component (the research paper) will account for 25 percent.

CLASS ATTENDANCE IS REQUIRED AND THREE (3) UNEXCUSED ABSENCES WILL RESULT IN A GRADE REDUCTION. This course is part of the University Studies Program, which is designed to provide a comprehensive liberal arts education to all undergraduates. The course can be taken to fulfill the Cross-cultural requirement in University Studies.

REQUIRED TEXT:

Thomas R Leinbach and Richard Ulack (eds). Southeast Asia: Diversity and Development. Prentice-Hall, 2000. http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geography/dept/southeast_asia__diversity_and_.htm

  1. THE DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT (Leinbach and Ulack, Chapter 1)
    1. Southeast Asia: An Historical and Contemporary Perspective
      1. An Overview of the Region
      2. Concepts of Development
    2. Physical Bases (Kummer, Chapter 2 in Leinbach and Ulack; ; Gupta Chapters 3, 4)
      1. Landforms and their human impact
      2. Climatic Patterns: Physical and Human Consequences
        Video: Chasing India 's Monsoon
      3. Rivers of Southeast Asia (Gupta, Chapter 4)
        Video: The Mekong Basin (Douglas, Chapter 12 in Gupta)
      4. Resources: Forests, Energy and Minerals
    3. Cultural-Social Patterns (Reed, Chapter 3 in Leinbach and Ulack)
      1. The Diffusion and Impact of Religion
      2. The Incursion of the West: Legacies of Colonialism
      3. The Role of Minorities: Chinese and Indian Populations
      4. Language Mosaics
    4. Population Structure and Pattern (Hugo, Chapter 4 in Leinbach and Ulack)
      1. Spatial Distribution
      2. Structure: Age and Gender (IDB Population Pyramids)
      3. Growth and Family Planning
      4. Nutrition, Disease and Infant-Child Mortality
      5. Migration Streams and Mobility
      6. Refugee Movements and Displaced Population
    5. Urbanization (Goss, Chapter 5 in Leinbach and Ulack)
      1. Levels and Patterns of Urbanization
      2. The Mega-Cities of Southeast Asia
        Video: My Hanoi
      3. Problems of Rapid Growth: Informal Sector, Employment
      4. Transport in the Southeast Asian City
    6. Perspectives on Agriculture and Rural Development (Hafner, Chapter 6 in Leinbach and Ulack)
      1. The Nature of Agriculture: Commercial and Subsistence
      2. Land Tenure Issues and Reform
      3. The Impact of the Green Revolution
      4. Rural Development:
        1. Malaysia’s FELDA and Indonesia’s Transmigration Program
        2. Vietnam’s ‘doi moi'
    7. Southeast Asia in the Global Economy: Industry, Tourism and Trade (Leinbach and Bowen, Chapter 7 in Leinbach and Ulack)
      1. The Post-Financial Crisis Economies
      2. Trends in Industrialization
      3. MNCs and Trade
      4. The Enabling Mechanisms: Transport and Communications
      5. The Role of Tourism (Ulack, Chapter 8 in Leinbach and Ulack)
        Video: Case Study of Bali (26)
  2. NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SITUATIONS
    1. Indonesia
    2. Malaysia
    3. Singapore
    4. Vietnam
    5. Thailand

FINAL EXAMINATION ( Wednesday, May 3, 2006 , 1:00 pm )

SELECT REFERENCES

Barlow, Colin (ed) Institutions and Economic Change in Southeast Asia: The Context of Development from the 1960s to the 1990s. Edward Elgar, 1999

Brown, David. The State and Ethnic Politics in Southeast Asia. London and New York: Routledge, 1994

Burling, Robbins. Hill Farms and Padi Fields: Life in Mainland Southeast Asia Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965

Chia Lin Sien (ed.) Southeast Asia Transformed: A Geography of Change. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003.

Dick, Howard and Peter Rimmer. Cities, Transport, and Communications: The Integration of Southeast Asia Since 1850. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Dixon, Chris. South East Asia in the World-Economy: A Regional Geography Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991

Dwyer, D.J. (ed.). South East Asian Development: Geographical Perspectives New York: Longman Scientific & Technical, 1990

Fisher, Charles. Southeast Asia: A Social, Economic and Political Geography London: Methuen, 1964 or 1966, 2nd ed. (The classic work on the geography of Southeast Asia)

Fryer, Donald. Emerging Southeast Asia: A Study in Growth and Stagnation New York: Wiley-Halsted, 1980, 2nd ed.

Geertz, Clifford. Agricultural Involution: The Process of Ecological Change in Indonesia. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1963.

Gupta, Avijit. The Physical Geography of Southeast Asia. Oxford : Uni9versity Press, 2005 GB 295 .P49 2005

Leinbach, Thomas R. The Indonesian Rural Economy: Work, Mobility and Enterprise, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. (http://www.uky.edu/AS/Geography/research/leinbach2003.htm

Leinbach, Thomas R. and Richard Ulack (eds.). Southeast Asia: Diversity and Development. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.

Leinbach, Thomas R and Chia Lin Sien. Southeast Asian Transport: Issues in Development. Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1989

McGee, T. G. The Southeast Asia City: A Social Geography of the Primate Cities of Southeast Asia New York: Praeger, 1967

McGee, T. G. and Ira M. Robinson. The Mega-Urban Regions of Southeast Asia Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1995

Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce. 2 volumes. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1988.

Rigg, Jonathan. Southeast Asia: A Region in Transition London: Unwin Hyman, 1991.

Rigg, Jonathan. Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development. London and New York: Routledge, 2003, 2nd edition.

Rimmer, Peter. Pacific Rim Development : integration and globalization in the Asia-Pacific region. 1997.

Dick, Howard and Peter Rimmer. Cities, transport, and communications : the integration of Southeast Asia. Palgrave, 2003.

Suryadinata, Leo (ed.). Ethnic Chinese as Southeast Asians. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.

Ulack, Richard and Gyula Pauer. Atlas of Southeast Asia. New York: MacMillan, 1989.