In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, luxurious megacasino 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-asdevelopment consolidates the differentiated treatment of citizen subjects and gives legitimacy to the biopolitical governance of citizen practices, claims, and urban participation.

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简介：东南亚的综合大型赌场和投机都市主义

在 2008 年全球金融危机之后，豪华的大型赌场度假村已成为亚洲不同目的地经济增长的奇观。赌场和休闲产业以大型综合度假村 (IR) 为重点，是经济复兴的场所，尽管它提供了道德腐败的空间。综合性大型赌场是模糊不清的发展项目，推动着为积累、社会控制和全球竞争创造场所的投机过程。本社论介绍侧重于三个主要主题。首先，大型IR项目展示了国家权力与赌博经济之间历史悠久的复杂关系。其次，东南亚的新大型赌场是投机都市主义及其实验的象征。第三，