The Other Global City (Routledge Advances in Geography)

The Other Global City (Routledge Advances in Geography)

by ShailMayaram (Editor)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 260
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08 Apr 2010

ISBN 10: 0415882362
ISBN 13: 9780415882361

Author Bio
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).