TY  - BOOK
AU  - Öncü,Ayşe
AU  - Weyland,Petra
TI  - Space, culture and power: new identities in globalizing cities 
SN  - 1856495043
AV  - HT330. S63 1997
U1  - 307.76 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - London, Atlantic Highlands, NJ.
PB  - Zed Books
KW  - Metropolitan areas
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Social groups
KW  - Social networks
KW  - International economic relations
N1  - 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
ER  -