The Other Global City

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 duree and 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. . Language: English