Other Cities, Other Worlds

by Huyssen, Andreas

• ISBN13: 9780822342717
• ISBN10: 0822342715
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

Other Cities, Other Worldsbrings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the way that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they bring to their essays deep knowledge of the cities they are bound to in their lives and their work. Taken together, these essays allow us to compare metropolises from the so-called periphery and gauge processes of cultural globalization, illuminating the complexities at stake as we try to imagine other cities and other worlds under the spell of globalization.The effects of global processes such as the growth of transnational corporations and investment, the weakening of state sovereignty, increasing poverty, and the privatization of previously public services are described and analyzed in essays by Teresa Caldeira (São Paulo), Beatriz Sarlo (Buenos Aires), Néstor Canclini (Mexico City), Farha Ghannam (Cairo), Gyan Prakash (Mumbai), and Yingjin Zhang (Beijing). Considering Johannesburg, the architect Hilton Judin takes on themes addressed by other contributors as well: the relation between the country and the city, and between racial imaginaries and the fear of urban violence. Rahul Mehrotra writes of the transitory, improvisational nature of the Indian bazaar city, while AbdouMaliq Simone sees a new urbanism of fragmentation and risk emerging in Douala, Cameroon. In a broader comparative frame, Okwui Enwezor reflects on the proliferation of biennales of contemporary art in African, Asian, and Latin American cities, and Ackbar Abbas considers the rise of fake commodity production in China. The volume closes with the novelist Orhan Pamuk's meditation on his native city of Istanbul.Contributors:Ackbar Abbas; Teresa P. R. Caldeira; Néstor García Canclini; Okwui Enwezor; Farha Ghannam; Andreas Huyssen; Hilton Judin; Rahul Mehrotra; Orhan Pamuk; Gyan Prakash; Beatriz Sarlo ; AbdouMaliq Simone; Yingjin Zhang

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities	p. 1
Latin America
Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture	p. 27
From Modernism to Neoliberalism in Sao Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens	p. 51
Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization	p. 79
Africa
The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanities and the Larger Urban World	p. 99
Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City	p. 121
Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form	p. 147
Asia
Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins	p. 181
Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai	p. 205
Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema	p. 219
Faking Globalization	p. 243
Middle East
Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt	p. 267
Huzun - Melancholy - Tristesse of Istanbul	p. 289
Bibliography	p. 307
Contributors	p. 321
Index	p. 325
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