"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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