Huyssen Other Cities, Other Worlds

Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8936-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Collection of essays that examines the effects of globalization on non-Western cities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huyssen, Andreas

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 51

Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization / Néstor García 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

Hüzün—Melancholy—Tristesse of Istanbul / Orhan Pamuk 289

Bibliography 307

Contributors 321

Index 325

Über Autor(innen)

Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His books include Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory and Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia. He is a founding member and co-editor of New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies, also published by Duke University Press.