Space, culture and power :  new identities in globalizing cities / 
edited by Ayşe Öncü and Petra Weyland. 
 - 208 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> Papers from a workshop held at Boǧaziçi University, Istanbul, in 1994. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Acknowledgements --  Contributors --  Introduction: struggles over lebensraum and social identity in globalizing cities --  Global Visions and Changing Discourses of Power --  Between economy and race: the Asianization of Singapore --  On two conceptions of globalization: the debate around the reconstruction of Beirut --  The myth of the 'ideal home' travels across cultural borders to Istanbul --  The Symbolism of Space and the Struggle for Lebensraum --  Culture shock and identity crisis in East German cities --  Gendered lives in global spaces --  The metropolitan dilemma: global society, localities and the struggle for urban land in Manila --  Rediscovering Islam through the Prism of the Global --  Re-imagining the global: relocation and local identities in Cairo --  Formation of a middle-class ethos and its quotidian: revitalizing Islam in urban Turkey --  Between religion and ethnicity: a Kurdish-Alevi tribe in globalizing Istanbul --  Travelling Islam: mosques without minarets --  Index.  1.  Pt. I.  2.  3.  4.  Pt. II.  5.  6.  7.  Pt. III.  8.  9.  10.  11. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1856495043 9781856495042 1856495035 9781856495035 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96039525 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Metropolitan areas--Congresses<br/>Sociology, Urban--Congresses<br/>Social groups--Congresses<br/>Social networks--Congresses<br/>International economic relations--Congresses
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HT330.  / S63 1997 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>307.76