Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities

Front Cover
Urban Theory Beyond the West
Copyright Page
Contents
List of plates
List of figures
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: urban theory beyond the West: Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne
Part I: De-centring the city
	2. No Longer the subaltern: refiguring cities of the global south: AbdouMaliq Simone
	3. China Exceptionalism?: Unbounding narratives on urban China: Choon-Piew Pow
	4. Urban theory Beyond the ‘East/West divide’?: Cities and urban research in postsocialist Europe: Slavomíra Ferenčuhová
	5. Urbanism, colonialism and subalternity: Swati Chattopadhyay
Part II: Order/disorder
	6. Governing cities without states?: Rethinking urban political theories in Asia: Yooil Bae
	7. Public parks in the Americas: New York City and Buenos Aires: Nora Libertun de Duren
	8. An illness called Managua: ‘extraordinary’ urbanization and ‘mal-development’ in Nicaragua: Dennis Rodgers
	9. The concept of privacy and space in Kurdish cities: Hooshmand Alizadeh
	10. The networked city: popular modernizers and urban: transformation in Morelia, Mexico, 1880–1955: Christina M. Jiménez
Part III: Mobilities
	11. Distinctly Delhi: affect and exclusion in a crowded city: Melissa Butcher
	12. Shanghai borderlands: the rise of a new urbanity: Deljana Iossifova
	13. Contemporary urban culture in Latin America: everyday life in Santiago, Chile: Jorge Inzulza-Contardo
	14. Urban (im)mobility: public encounters in Dubai: Yasser Elsheshtawy
Part IV: Imaginaries
	15. Reality tours: experiencing the ‘real thing’ in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas: Beatriz Jaguaribe and Scott Salmon
	16. Modern warfare and the theorization of the Middle Eastern city: Sofia T. Shwayri
	17. Reading Thai community: the processes of reformation and fragmentation: Cuttaleeya Jiraprasertkun
	18. Urban political ecology in the global south: everyday environmental struggles of home in Managua, Nicaragua: Laura Shillington
	19. Spectral Kinshasa: building the city through an architecture of words: Filip De Boeck
	20. Afterword: a world of cities: Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne
Bibliography
Index