The Other Global City
What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the "other global" cities of Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the well-known contributors highlight cartographies of the Other Global City. The volume contends that thinking about the …
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What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the "global cities" literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial "global network." Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the "other global" cities of Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the well-known contributors highlight cartographies of the Other Global City. The volume contends that thinking about the city in the longue duree and as part of a topography of interconnected regions contests both imperial and nationalist ways of reading cities that have occasioned the many and particularly violent territorial partitions in Asia and the world.
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- Publication Date:©2009
- Edition:1st ed
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- Publisher(s):Taylor and Francis
- Place of Publication:Florence
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2009
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (259 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203887653, 0203887654
- oclc:on1058515403
- LC Classification:HT147.A2 ǂb O84 2009eb
- Dewey Decimal:307.76095
Table of Contents
Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps -- Photographs -- Prologue and Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Rereading Global Cities: Topographies of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism in Asia -- Section I Cosmopolitanism and the State -- 2 Beneficence and Difference: Ottoman Awqaf and "Other" Subjects -- 3 Living Together in Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism -- 4 Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic Evolutionism -- Section II Cosmopolitanism Compromised/Denied -- 5 Impossible Cosmopolises: Dislocations and Relocations in Beirut and Delhi -- 6 Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife "Little India," Kuala Lumpur -- 7 Invisibility and Cohabitation in Multiethnic Tokyo -- Section III Cosmopolitan Microprocesses -- 8 Cairo Cosmopolitan: Living Together through Communal Divide, Almost -- 9 Cosmopolitanism and the City: Interaction and Coexistence in Bukhara -- Contributors -- Index.
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