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Space, culture and power : new identities in globalizing cities

Title: Space, culture and power : new identities in globalizing cities / edited by Ayşe Öncü and Petra Weyland.
Publication: London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ. : Zed Books, 1997.

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Description

[viii], 208 pages; 23 cm

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Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Note

Papers from a workshop held at Boǧaziçi University, Istanbul, in 1994.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: struggles over lebensraum and social identity in globalizing cities / Ayse Oncu and Petra Weyland -- Between economy and race: the Asianization of Singapore / Beng-Huat Chua -- On two conceptions of globalization: the debate around the reconstruction of Beirut / Suzanne Kassab -- The myth of the 'ideal home' travels across cultural borders to Istanbul / Ayse Oncu -- Culture shock and identity crisis in East German cities / Ulrich Mai -- Gendered lives in global spaces / Petra Weyland -- The metropolitan dilemma: global society, localities and the struggle for urban land in Manila / Erhard Berner -- Re-imagining the global: relocation and local identities in Cairo / Farha Ghannam -- Formation of a middle-class ethos and its quotidian: revitalizing Islam in urban Turkey / Ayse Saktanber -- Between religion and ethnicity: a Kurdish-Alevi tribe in globalizing Istanbul / Gunter Seufert -- Travelling Islam: mosques without minarets / Jan Nederveen Pieterse.

ISBN

1856495035
9781856495035
1856495043
9781856495042

LCCN

96039525

OCLC

ocm35860913
35860913
SCSB-14654726

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Princeton University Library