Other Cities, Other Worlds
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Other Cities, Other Worlds

Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

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Other Cities, Other Worlds

Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

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Other Cities, Other Worlds brings 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 ways 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 P. R. Caldeira (SĂŁo Paulo), Beatriz Sarlo (Buenos Aires), NĂ©stor GarcĂ­a 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, NĂ©stor GarcĂ­a Canclini, Okwui Enwezor, Farha Ghannam, Andreas Huyssen, Hilton Judin, Rahul Mehrotra, Orhan Pamuk, Gyan Prakash, Beatriz Sarlo, AbdouMaliq Simone, Yingjin Zhang

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Andreas Huyssen- Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities
  4. Beatriz Sarlo- Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture
  5. Teresa P. R. Caldeira- From Modernism to Neoliberalism in SĂŁo Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens
  6. NĂ©stor GarcĂ­a Canclini- Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization
  7. AbdouMaliq Simone- The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanities and theLarger Urban World
  8. Hilton Judin- Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City
  9. Okwui Enwezor- Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form
  10. Gyan Prakash- Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins
  11. Rahul Mehrotra- Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism ofMumbai
  12. Yingjin Zhang- Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema
  13. Ackbar Abbas- Faking Globalization
  14. Farha Ghannam- Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt
  15. Orhan Pamuk- HĂŒzĂŒn—Melancholy—Tristesse of Istanbul
  16. Bibliography
  17. Contributors
  18. Index