Add to ORKG"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 way 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 globa...
A long-standing debate in the urban studies literature emphasises the place of cities in the global...
This is the second part of the eTropic special issue theme on Tropical Imaginaries and Living Cities...
This exhibition by photographer Sammy Baloji and anthropologist Filip De Boeck offers an exploration...
Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural an...
In this selection, from Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne’s Urban Theory Beyond the West (2011) urban anthr...
Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa's burgeoning metropolise...
This text summarises an ongoing research project about small cities which are usually not included i...
As elsewhere on the African continent, Congo’s cities increasingly imagine new futures for themselve...
For this conversation, we take as our point of departure the multiple uses deriving from the Latin r...
Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries – from Egypt in the north to three in ...
With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization ...
Many scholars have been arguing that dominant knowledge and discourses on the African city are large...
Anthropologist Filip De Boeck and Photographer Sammy Baloji reflect upon their collaborative researc...
As elsewhere, cities in Africa exist as ensembles of houses, streets, social events, and practices a...
Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural an...
A long-standing debate in the urban studies literature emphasises the place of cities in the global...
This is the second part of the eTropic special issue theme on Tropical Imaginaries and Living Cities...
This exhibition by photographer Sammy Baloji and anthropologist Filip De Boeck offers an exploration...
Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural an...
In this selection, from Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne’s Urban Theory Beyond the West (2011) urban anthr...
Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa's burgeoning metropolise...
This text summarises an ongoing research project about small cities which are usually not included i...
As elsewhere on the African continent, Congo’s cities increasingly imagine new futures for themselve...
For this conversation, we take as our point of departure the multiple uses deriving from the Latin r...
Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries – from Egypt in the north to three in ...
With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization ...
Many scholars have been arguing that dominant knowledge and discourses on the African city are large...
Anthropologist Filip De Boeck and Photographer Sammy Baloji reflect upon their collaborative researc...
As elsewhere, cities in Africa exist as ensembles of houses, streets, social events, and practices a...
Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural an...
A long-standing debate in the urban studies literature emphasises the place of cities in the global...
This is the second part of the eTropic special issue theme on Tropical Imaginaries and Living Cities...
This exhibition by photographer Sammy Baloji and anthropologist Filip De Boeck offers an exploration...