Title: Comparing cities : the Middle East and South Asia
Abstract: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION MARTINA RIEKER & KAMRAN ASDAR ALI PART I. CITING CITIES 1. . No Man's Land: A Visual Essay (Mumbai) PAROMITA VOHRA PART II. GENDER AND THE CITY 2. City of Riffraff: Crowds, Public Space, and New Urban Sensibilities in War-Time Jerusalem , 1917-1921 SALIM TAMARI 3. Men and Their Problems: Notes on Contemporary Karachi KAMRAN ASDAR ALI 4. The Body Politic: Gender and the Practice of Power in the City (Bangalore) JANAKI NAIR PART III. THE ACTUALITIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE 5. Decolonizing Diyarbakir: Culture, Identity and the Struggle to Appropriate Urban Space ZEYNEP GAMBETTI 6. Re-visiting 'Everyday Life': The Experience of Delhi's Media Urbanism RAVI SUNDARAM 7. Ghostly Sufis and Ornamental Shadows: Spectral Visualities in Karachi's Public Sphere PART IV. URBAN GOVERNMENTALITIES 8. The State and the Production of Illegal Housing: Public Practices in Hayy el Sellom, Beirut-Lebanon MONA FAWAZ 9. Spaces of Work/ Sites of Danger: Environment and Urban Landscape in Modern Delhi AWADHENDRA SHARAN 10. Signs of Sovereignty (Chennai) MARY HANCOCK 11. A Landscape of Recovery, The Polysemy of Spaces/Places in Downtown Beirut YASMIN ARIF PART VI: POSTSCRIPT 12. A Postscript from Kolkata: An Equal Right to the City PARTHA CHATTERJEE CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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