The Other Global City (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mayaram, Shail

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What is a Global City? 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 contributors of this book highlight cartographies of the Other Global City.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135851491
• Artikelnr.: 38262336

Autorenporträt

Shail Mayaram is a Professor and Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, India. She is the author of Against History, Against State: Counterperspectives from the Margins (Columbia University Press, 2003); Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity (Oxford University Press, 1997); and the co-author of Creating a Nationality: The Ramjanambhumi Movement and the Fear of Self (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue and Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Re-Reading Global Cities:
Topographies of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism in Asia Shail Mayaram
Section I: Cosmopolitanism and the State 2. Beneficence and Difference:
Ottoman Awqaf and "Other" Subjects Engin F. Isin 3. Living Together in
Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism
Emily T. Yeh 4. Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic
Evolutionarism Aihwa Ong Section II: Cosmopolitanism Compromised/Denied 5.
Impossible Cosmopolis: Dislocations and Relocations in Beirut and Delhi
Yasmeen Arif 6. Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife "Little India," Kuala
Lumpur Yeoh Seng Guan 7. Invisibility and Cohabitation in Multiethnic Tokyo
John Lie Section III: Cosmopolitan Microprocesses 8. Cairo Cosmopolitan:
Living Together through Communal Divide, Almost Asef Bayat 9.
Cosmopolitanism and the City: Interaction and Co-existence in Bukhara
Caroline Humphrey, Magnus Marsden and Vera Skvirskaja