Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

Herausgeber: Huyssen, Andreas

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Produktbeschreibung

Collection of essays that examines the effects of globalization on non-Western cities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 154mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342717
• ISBN-10: 0822342715
• Artikelnr.: 23881693

Autorenporträt

Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His books include Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory and Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia. He is a founding member and co-editor of New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities / Andreas Huyssen 1
Latin America
Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture / Beatriz
Sarlo 27
From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and
Its Citizens / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 51
Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization / Néstor García Canclini 79
Africa
The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanites and the Larger Urban World /
AbdouMaliq Simone 99
Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City / Hilton Judin 121
Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form / Okwui
Enwezor 147
Asia
Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins / Gyan Prakash 181
Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai
/ Rahul Mehrotra 205
Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema / Yingjin Zhang 219
Faking Globalization / Ackbar Abbas 243
Middle East
Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt / Farha Ghannam
267
Hüzün—Melancholy—Tristesse of Istanbul / Orhan Pamuk 289
Bibliography 307
Contributors 321
Index 325