Code: 04939900

Global Cities of the South

Name: Global Cities of the South
Brand: Duke University Press
SKU: 04939900
Price: 13.58 EUR
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by Brent Hayes Edwards

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Duke University Press, 2004
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Book synopsis

For the first time in history, over fifty percent of human beings live in cities. Perhaps more surprising is that cities in the developed world have been eclipsed in size and growth by the mega cities of the underdeveloped world - the 'global South'. As primary sites for human consumption of natural resources and for pollution of the environment, these global cities will witness the twenty-first-century crises - ecological, political, and social - when they first become full-blown. "Global Cities of the South" examines these portending disasters unfolding in the mega cities of the global South. This special issue challenges post colonial theorists to engage with urban studies and challenges urban analysts to turn their focus to the post colonial societies where these cities have developed.Gathering well-known scholars in post colonial theory and urban studies, the collection opens an interdisciplinary exchange through a series of case studies focused on cities in Africa and Asia. One essay argues that the world's urban spaces are key to the continuance of inequity under capitalist globalization (exemplified by rapidly expanding urban slums), as well as to any possible resistance to that inequity. Another article considers the history and politics of Harlem from the perspective of well-known academic, activist, and post colonial theorist whose work here is interwoven with the photographic art of Alice Attie. A third reflects on the politics of representation of Hindu and Muslim populations in Mumbai, evaluating popular media including film and the cosmopolitan fiction of Salman Rushdie. The contributors are: Alice Attie; Mike Davis; Ashley Dawson; Brent Hayes Edwards; Brian Larkin; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Rashmi Varma; and, Victor Vich.