These set of essays seek to highlight the changing social dynamics in Middle Eastern and South Asian cities. The papers rethink the gendered dimension of public spaces and investigate the relationship between the popular and the political in these regions. They also take into account how larger structural changes in South Asia/ the Middle East have impacted the practices and experiencesof people. INDICE: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Martina Rieker & Kamran Asdar Ali; Part I. Citing Cities; 1.:. No Man's Land: A Visual Essay (Mumbai); Paromita Vohra; Part II. Gender and the City ; 2.: City of Riffraff: Crowds, Public Space, and New Urban Sensibilities in War-Time Jerusalem , 1917-1921; Salim Tamari; 3.: Men and Their Problems: Notes on Contemporary Karachi; Kamran Asdar Ali; 4.: The Body Politic: Gender and the Practice of Power in the City (Bangalore); Janaki Nair; Part III. The Actualities of Everyday Life ; 5.: Decolonizing Diyarbakir: Culture, Identity and the Struggle to Appropriate Urban Space;Zeynep Gambetti; 6.: Re-visiting 'Everyday Life': The Experience of Delhi's Media Urbanism; Ravi Sundaram; 7.: Ghostly Sufis and Ornamental Shadows: Spectral Visualities in Karachi's Public Sphere; Part IV. Urban Governmentalities; 8.: The State and the Production of Illegal Housing: Public Practices in Hayy el Sellom, Beirut-Lebanon; Mona Fawaz; 9.: Spaces of Work/ Sites of Danger: Environment and Urban Landscape in Modern Delhi; Awadhendra Sharan; 10.: Signs ofSovereignty (Chennai); Mary Hancock; 11.: A Landscape of Recovery, The Polysemy of Spaces/Places in Downtown Beirut; Yasmin Arif; Part VI: Postscript; 12.:A Postscript from Kolkata: An Equal Right to the City; Partha Chatterjee; Contributors; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-547498-5
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 372
- Fecha Publicación: 06/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés