Other Cities Other Worlds Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age 1st Edition by Andreas Huyssen ISBN 978-0822342717 0822342715
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ISBN 10: 0822342715
ISBN 13: 978-0822342717
Author: Andreas Huyssen
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 (São Paulo), Beatriz Sarlo (Buenos Aires), Néstor García 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, Néstor García Canclini, Okwui Enwezor, Farha Ghannam, Andreas Huyssen, Hilton Judin, Rahul Mehrotra, Orhan Pamuk, Gyan Prakash, Beatriz Sarlo, AbdouMaliq Simone, Yingjin Zhang
Table of contents:
LATIN AMERICA
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Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture
Beatriz Sarlo -
From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens
Teresa P. R. Caldeira -
Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization
Néstor García Canclini
AFRICA
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The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanities and the Larger Urban World
AbdouMaliq Simone -
Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City
Hilton Judin -
Mega-Exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form
Okwui Enwezor
ASIA
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Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins
Gyan Prakash -
Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra -
Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema
Yingjin Zhang -
Faking Globalization
Ackbar Abbas
MIDDLE EAST
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Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt
Farha Ghannam -
Hüzün–Melancholy–Tristesse of Istanbul
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