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Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they bring to their essays deep knowledge of the cities they are bound to in their lives and their work. Taken together, these essays allow us to compare metropolises from the so-called periphery and gauge processes of cultural globalization, illuminating the complexities at stake as we try to imagine other cities and other worlds under the spell of globalization.The effects of global processes such as the growth of transnational corporations and investment, the weakening of state sovereignty, increasing poverty, and the privatization of previously public services are described and analyzed in essays by Teresa P. R. Caldeira (Sao Paulo), Beatriz Sarlo (Buenos Aires), Nestor Garcia Canclini (Mexico City), Farha Ghannam (Cairo), Gyan Prakash (Mumbai), and Yingjin Zhang (Beijing). Considering Johannesburg, the architect Hilton Judin takes on themes addressed by other contributors as well: the relation between the country and the city, and between racial imaginaries and the fear of urban violence. Rahul Mehrotra writes of the transitory, improvisational nature of the Indian bazaar city, while AbdouMaliq Simone sees a new urbanism of fragmentation and risk emerging in Douala, Cameroon. In a broader comparative frame, Okwui Enwezor reflects on the proliferation of biennales of contemporary art in African, Asian, and Latin American cities, and Ackbar Abbas considers the rise of fake commodity production in China. The volume closes with the novelist Orhan Pamuk's meditation on his native city of Istanbul.Contributors: Ackbar Abbas, Teresa P. R. Caldeira, Nestor Garcia Canclini, Okwui Enwezor, Farha Ghannam, Andreas Huyssen, Hilton Judin, Rahul Mehrotra, Orhan Pamuk, Gyan Prakash, Beatriz Sarlo, AbdouMaliq Simone, Yingjin Zhang
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C O N T E N T S
Acknowledgmens
Andreas Huyssen Inroducion: World Culures, World Ciies
A M E R I C AL AT I N Beariz Sarlo Culural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Inegraion o Fracure
Teresa P. R. Caldeira From Modernism o Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring e Ciy and Is Ciizens
Nésor García Canclini Mexico Ciy, : Improvising Globalizaion
A F R I C A AbdouMaliq Simone he Las Sall Be Firs: African Urbaniies and e Larger Urban World
Hilon Judin Unseling Joannesburg: he Counry in e Ciy
Okwui Enwezor Mega-exibiions: he Aninomies of a Transnaional Global Form
A S I A Gyan Prakas Mumbai: he Modern Ciy in Ruins
Raul Merora Negoiaing e Saic and Kineic Ciies: he Emergen Urbanism of Mumbai
Yingjin Zang Remapping Beijing: Polylocaliy, Globalizaion, Cinema
Ackbar Abbas Faking Globalizaion
M I D D L E E A S T Fara Gannam Two Dreams in a Global Ciy: Class and Space in Urban Egyp
Oran Pamuk Hüzün—Melancoly—Trisesseof Isanbul
Bibliograpy
Conribuors
Index
A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S
he essays a make up is volume were firs presened as formal lecures in a year-long graduae researc seminar in – a Columbia Universiy, conduced as a Sawyer Seminar and funded by e Mellon Foundaion. All of e essays ave been updaed and rewrien since ey were firs presened. he seminar was concluded wo years laer by a follow-up conference wic gener-aed furer discussions and several more essays. Bo e semi-nar and e conference feaured arciecs, urban isorians and eoriss, anropologiss, sociologiss, lierary and culural cri-ics, curaors, and wriers, mos of wom came from ose non-Wesern ciies ey spoke abou. Two essays were commissioned a a laer ime o round ou e volume. My firs anks go o e Mellon Foundaion for e generous funding and suppor a made e seminar possible. he Sawyer Seminar iself was developed in close cooperaion beween e Cener for Comparaive Lieraure and Sociey, wic I direced a e ime, and e Graduae Scool of Arciecure, Planning, and Preservaion a Columbia Universiy. Special anks are owed e Graduae Scool of Arciecure, Planning, and Preservaion and is deans Bernard Tscumi and is successor Mark Wigley, e Temple Hoyne Buell Cener for American Arciecure and is direcor Joan Ockman, and my colleagues a e Cener for Comparaive Lieraure and Sociey. I am especially graeful o
e sudens wo made e seminar suc a success—an engaged and imagi-naive group from a variey of disciplines in e umaniies, social sciences, and arciecure. Togeer we read and discussed e publised work of e invied speakers before ey came o Columbia. In closed sessions ater e public lecures, e sudens engaged e lecurers, peppering em wi ques-ions and commens, many of wic resonae in e rewrien versions of e original presenaions. I am pleased o acknowledge e significan inpu of Zeuler Lima, Esra Akcan, Sjoukje van der Meulen, Eric Bulson, and Salomon Frauso all of wom elped in a variey of pedagogic, inellecual, and orga-nizaional ways o make e seminar, is regular sessions and biweekly public lecures, and e final conference a major even on campus. hanks mus also go o e colleagues wo provided engaged formal responses o e lec-ures—eac one of em a rigger for ensuing lively discussions wic in urn also fed ino e revision of e essays assembled in is book. Unforunaely and due o lack of space, ese commens by George Baker, Bruno Boseels, Jean Coen, Mania Diawara, Jean Franco, Mamood Mamdani, Reinold Marin, Gyan Prakas, James Scamus, David Sco, Gayari Spivak, and Mark Wigley could no be included in is volume. Going back o my own firs engagemen wi e eme of urban imagi-naries beyond my own focus on urban narraives, I mus ank Ackbar Ab-bas, Benjamin Lee, and Mario Gandelsonas for e inense discussions abou urban imaginaries we ad in wo seminars in Hong Kong in May a laer fed ino e planning for e Sawyer Seminar. Unforunaely, Lee’s and Gandelsonas’s lecures could no be included ere since ey ave already been publised elsewere. I also wan o ank Neil Brenner for several simu-laing discussions abou world-ciy eory wic elped me ge a andle on a complex field of sudy a lies raer ouside of my own scolarly researc, oug well inside my lierary ineres in urban culure. Finally, I wan o ank my ediors and producion saff a Duke Universiy Press, Ken Wissoker, Courney Berger, Pam Morrison, Paricia Mickelberry, and Heaer Hensley. hanks also o Crisoper Manning, wo prepared e index. I dedicae is book o e Columbia sudens, an inernaional and cos-mopolian bunc wose curiosiy, imaginaion, and engagemen wi ciy culures in a globalizing age made e Sawyer Seminar suc a rewarding experience for all paricipans.
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Andreas Huyssen
I N T R O D U C T I O N
W O R L D C U LT U R E S , W O R L D C I T I E S
“From now on, I’ll describe the cities to you,” the Khan had said, “in your journeys you will see if they exist.” But the cities visited by Marco Polo were always different from those thought of by the emperor. —Italo Calvino,Invisible Cities
os ciies of e world ave undergone major ransforma-M ions in recen decades. Processes of urbanizaion ave grealy acceleraed across e world, and ciies ave grown closer o eac oer economically and culurally. Transnaional corpo-raions, wi eir effecs on local and global economies, ave creaed new neworks of ciies, and e spread of e global and regional culure indusries, eriage foundaions, mass ourism, labor migraions, academic excanges, and culural specacles suc as biennales, spors evens, and blockbuser museum sows ave made “oer ciies” par of e way we live and perceive e world. Togeer wi ese developmens, a new vibran lieraure as emerged among poliical economiss, sociologiss, anro-pologiss, and urban eoriss across e world. I seeks o cap-ure e emerging rus of urban developmens in eir canging relaion o naions and regions, o social movemens, and o e
