The other global city / edited by Shail Mayaram.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mayaram, Shail.

Series:

Routledge advances in geography ; 1.

Routledge advances in geography ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Asia.

Cities and towns.

Cosmopolitanism.

Asia.

Cosmopolitanism--Asia.

Physical Description:

xvi, 242 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Rereading Global Cities: Topographies of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism in Asia / Shail Mayaram 1

Section I Cosmopolitanism and the State

2 Beneficence and Difference: Ottoman Awqaf and "Other" Subjects / Engin F. Isin 35

3 Living Together in Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism / Emily T. Yeh 54

4 Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic Evolutionism / Aihwa Ong 86

Section II Cosmopolitanism Compromised/Denied

5 Impossible Cosmopolises: Dislocations and Relocations in Beirut and Delhi / Yasmeen Arif 101

6 Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife "Little India," Kuala Lumpur / Yeoh Seng Guan 131

7 Invisibility and Cohabitation in Multiethnic Tokyo / John Lie 161

Section III Cosmopolitan Microprocesses

8 Cairo Cosmopolitan: Living Together through Communal Divide, Almost / Asef Bayat 179

9 Cosmoplitanism and the City: Interaction and Coexistence in Bukhara / Caroline Humphrey, Magnus Marsden, Vera Skvirskaja 202.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415991940

0415991943

9780203887653

0203887654

OCLC:

232636447