Space, culture and power : new identities in globalizing cities / edited by Ayşe Öncü and Petra Weyland.

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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