The Other Global City [Paperback]

What is a Global City? Who authorizes the World Class City? This edited volume interrogates the global cities literature, which views the city as a shimmering, financial global network. Through a historical-ethnographic exploration of inter-ethnic relations in the other global cities of Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the well-known contributors highlight cartographies of the Other Global City. The volume contends that thinking about the city in the longue dureeand as part of a topography of interconnected regions contests both imperial and nationalist ways of reading cities that have occasioned the many and particularly violent territorial partitions in Asia and the world.

Prologue and Acknowledgments  1. Introduction: Re-Reading Global Cities: Topographies of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism in Asia  Shail Mayaram  Section I: Cosmopolitanism and the State  2. Beneficence and Difference: Ottoman Awqaf and Other Subjects  Engin F. Isin  3. Living Together in Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, and Subaltern Cosmopolitanism  Emily T. Yeh  4. Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality to Ethnic Evolutionarism  Aihwa Ong  Section II: Cosmopolitanism Compromised/Denied  5. Impossible Cosmopolis: Dislocations and Relocations in Beirut and Delhi  Yasmeen Arif  6. Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife Little India, Kuala Lumpur  Yeoh Seng Guan  7. Invisibility and Cohabitation in Multiethnic Tokyo  John Lie  Section III: Cosmopolitan Microprocesses  8. Cairo Cosmopolitan: Living Together through Communal Divide, AlmostlCž