Dr Rahil Ismail is Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Dr Brian Shaw is Senior Lecturer in the School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, The University of Western Australia; and Dr Ooi Giok Ling is Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

• Chapter 1 Diverging Identities in a Dynamic Region, Brian J. Shaw; Chapter 2 ‘Di waktu petang di Geylang Serai’ Geylang Serai: Maintaining Identity in a Globalised World, Rahil Ismail; Chapter 3 Paradise Lost? Islands, Global Tourism and Heritage Erasure in Malaysia and Singapore, Ooi Giok Ling, Brian J. Shaw; Chapter 4 ‘Being Rooted and Living Globally’: Singapore’s Educational Reform as Post-developmental Governance, Mark Baildon; Chapter 5 Morphogenesis and Hybridity of Southeast Asian Coastal Cities, Johannes Widodo; Chapter 6 Nation-building, Identity and War Commemoration Spaces in Malaysia and Singapore, Kevin Blackburn; Chapter 7 Being Javanese in a Changing Javanese City, Ambar Widiastuti; Chapter 8 Re-imagining Economic Development in a Post-colonial World: Towards Laos 2020, Michael Theno; Chapter 9 When was Burma? Military Rules since 1962, Nancy Hudson-Rodd;

'The idea of Southeast Asia as a cultural "crossroads'"has a long history. This edited volume brings the crossroads leitmotif right up to the present in an eclectic collection of papers in which most scholars of contemporary social and cultural change in Southeast Asia will find rich rewards.' Jonathan Rigg, University of Durham, UK 'Historically Southeast Asia has often been portrayed as a region of "fragmented identity" between the two larger cultural realms of East Asia and the Indian sub-continent. This excellent collection of essays explores how Southeast Asian nations and people are reshaping their identity in the face of global regional and local influences by taking control of their diverse identities through the rewriting of the heritage in the landscapes of post modernism.' Terry McGee, University of British Columbia, Canada