Other cities, other worlds : urban imaginaries in a globalizing age

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Other cities, other worlds : urban imaginaries in a globalizing age

edited by Andreas Huyssen

Duke University Press, 2008

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-319) and index

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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 (Sao Paulo), Beatriz Sarlo (Buenos Aires), Nestor Garcia 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, Nestor Garcia 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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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 Sao Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 51 Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization / Nestor Garcia 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 Huzun-Melancholy-Tristesse of Istanbul / Orhan Pamuk 289 Bibliography 307 Contributors 321 Index 325

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