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The Other Global City

By Shail Mayaram (ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2008
ISBN
0415991943, 9780415991940
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2971279 bytes)
Series
Routledge Advances in Geography
Edition
1
Pages
258\259
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-12-20 00:27:33
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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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