Space, Culture and Power: New Identities in Globalizing Cities

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Judul: Space, Culture and Power: New Identities in Globalizing Cities Penyunting: Ayse Oncu dan Petra Weyland Penerbit: Zed Books Tahun terbitan: 1997 ISBN: 1856495043 Jumlah halaman: 224

Large cities in both North and South are caught in the contradictory logics of globalization and localization. This book looks at how ethnic minorities, tribal groupings and marginalised subcultures in urban areas appropriate contemporary discourses - of consumerism, Islam, human rights - to voice new cultural alternatives. Through a variety of cities, including Beirut, Berlin, Cairo, Istanbul, Manila and Singapore, it explores how social and cultural boundaries are renegotiated as new social networks of global trade and finance create new opportunity spaces. In doing so, the authors demonstrate how the global is translated by different groups of urban actors into practices which transform the physical as well as social and cultural spaces of the city.

‘Fascinating and original studies of cities as diverse as Singapore and Istanbul, prominant poles in the processes of globalizaiton, yet here considered in their particularities and minutiae of communities and neighborhoods, constructing their living and symbolic spaces in the web of powers, constraints and opportunities generated by the interaction of the global, the national and the local. These are refreshing perspectives.’ - Sami Zubaida, School of Oriental and African Studies

‘Rrefreshing and timely... this book enriches current debates with perspectives ‘from below’ drawn from diverse metropolitan contexts ranging from Istanbul, Cairo and Beirut to Manila and Singapore. Alongside offering the reader a wealth of much-needed empirical material, it makes an important analytic contribution by insisting on a sophisticated and dynamic understanding of processes of ‘localization’, not as inert, resistive or residual, but as actively shaping the outcomes of globalization’ - Deniz Kandiyoti, School of Oriental and African Studies

Contents

1. Introduction: Struggles Over ‘Lebensraum’ and Cultural Identity in Globalizing Cities- Ayse Öncü & Petra Weyland

PART I: Global Visions and Changing Discourses of Power
2. Between Economy and Race: Asianization of Singapore - Beng Huat Chua
3. On Two Conceptions of Globalization: the Debate Around the Reconstruction of Beirut - Suzanne Kassab
4. The Myth of the ‘Ideal Home’: Travels Across Cultural Borders to Istanbul - Ayse Öncü

PART II: Symbolism of Space and the Struggle for ‘Lebensraum’
5. Culture Shock and Identity Crisis in German Cities - Ulrich Mai
6. Gendered Lives in Global Spaces - Petra Weyland
7. The Metropolitan Dilemma: Global Society, Localities and the Struggle for Urban Land in Manila - Erhard Berner

PART III: Rediscovering Islam Through the Prism of the Local
8. Re-imagining the Global: Location and Local identities in Cairo - Farha Gannam
9. Formation of a Middle-class Ethos and its Quotidian: Revitalizing Islam in Urban Turkey - Ayse Saktanber
10. Tribesmen in the Global City: The Remolding of a Cultural and Political Identity - Gunter Seufert
11. Travelling Islam: Mosques without Minarets in the Netherlands - Jan Nederveen Pieterse

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