The other global city

The other global city

by Mayaram, Shail

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What is a Global City? Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the contributors of this book highlight cartographies of the 'Other Global City'.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The other global city / edited by Shail Mayaram.

Summary

What is a Global City? Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the contributors of this book highlight cartographies of the 'Other Global City'.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2009.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:New York, NY
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2009.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages) : : illustrations, maps

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:0203887654, 9780203887653
  • oclc:ocn318879743
  • LC Classification:HT147.A2
  • Dewey Decimal:307.76095 22

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rereading Global Cities: Topographies of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism in Asia / Shail Mayaram -- Cosmopolitanism and the State -- Beneficence and Difference: Ottoman Awqaf and "Other" Subjects / Engin F. Isin -- Living Together in Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism / Emily T. Yeh -- Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic Evolutionism / Aihwa Ong -- Cosmopolitanism Compromised/Denied -- Impossible Cosmopolises: Dislocations and Relocations in Beirut and Delhi / Yasmeen Arif -- Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife "Little India, " Kuala Lumpur / Yeoh Seng Guan -- Invisibility and Cohabitation in Multiethnic Tokyo / John Lie -- Cosmopolitan Microprocesses -- Cairo Cosmopolitan: Living Together through Communal Divide, Almost / Asef Bayat -- Cosmoplitanism and the City: Interaction and Coexistence in Bukhara / Caroline Humphrey, Magnus Marsden, Vera Skvirskaja.

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Subjects

Asia Asien Cities and towns Cities and towns -- Asia Cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitanism -- Asia Cosmopolitisme -- Asie Multikulturelle Gesellschaft SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology Stadt Villes -- Asie Weltoffenheit

Writers

Mayaram, Shail

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