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: 11. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342489
• ISBN-10: 0822342480
• Artikelnr.: 23880773

Autorenporträt

Andreas Huyssen, ed.

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