Space, culture and power : new identities in globalizing cities / edited by Ayşe Öncü and Petra Weyland.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ. : Zed Books, 1997Description: 208 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1856495043
- 9781856495042
- 1856495035
- 9781856495035
- 307.76
- HT330. S63 1997
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 307.76 SPA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A285429B |
Papers from a workshop held at Boǧaziçi University, Istanbul, in 1994.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: struggles over lebensraum and social identity in globalizing cities -- Pt. I. Global Visions and Changing Discourses of Power -- 2. Between economy and race: the Asianization of Singapore -- 3. On two conceptions of globalization: the debate around the reconstruction of Beirut -- 4. The myth of the 'ideal home' travels across cultural borders to Istanbul -- Pt. II. The Symbolism of Space and the Struggle for Lebensraum -- 5. Culture shock and identity crisis in East German cities -- 6. Gendered lives in global spaces -- 7. The metropolitan dilemma: global society, localities and the struggle for urban land in Manila -- Pt. III. Rediscovering Islam through the Prism of the Global -- 8. Re-imagining the global: relocation and local identities in Cairo -- 9. Formation of a middle-class ethos and its quotidian: revitalizing Islam in urban Turkey -- 10. Between religion and ethnicity: a Kurdish-Alevi tribe in globalizing Istanbul -- 11. Travelling Islam: mosques without minarets -- Index.
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