The Other Global City

by Mayaram; Shail

• ISBN13: 9780415991940
• ISBN10: 0415991943
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 dureeand 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.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. ix
List of Photographs	p. xi
Prologue and Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Rereading Global Cities: Topographies of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism in Asia	p. 1
Cosmopolitanism and the State
Beneficence and Difference: Ottoman Awqaf and "Other" Subjects	p. 35
Living Together in Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism	p. 54
Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic Evolutionism	p. 86
Cosmopolitanism Compromised/Denied
Impossible Cosmopolises: Dislocations and Relocations in Beirut and Delhi	p. 101
Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife "Little India," Kuala Lumpur	p. 131
Invisibility and Cohabitation in Multiethnic Tokyo	p. 161
Cosmopolitan Microprocesses
Cairo Cosmopolitan: Living Together through Communal Divide, Almost	p. 179
Cosmoplitanism and the City: Interaction and Coexistence in Bukhara	p. 202
Contributors	p. 233
Index	p. 237
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