The other global city

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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.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2009.
Edition:1st ed

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 242 pages : : illustrations, maps ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780415991940, 0415991943, 9780203887653, 0203887654, 0415882362, 9780415882361
oclc:ocn232636447
LC Classification:HT147.A2
Dewey Decimal:307.76095

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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Asia Asien Aufsatzsammlung Cities and towns Cities and towns -- Asia Cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitanism -- Asia Cosmopolitisme -- Asie Multikulturelle Gesellschaft Stadt Villes -- Asie Weltoffenheit