Edited by Barbara Drieskens, Franck Mermier and Heiko Wimmen

Coédition Ifpo/Saqi/Heinrich Böll Foundation, 2007

coll. CCO-14

330 p., index, notes

ISBN 978-0-86356-611-0

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Presentation

Major cities worldwide are caught in a whirlwind of change that is turning urban spaces into strategic sites where history is being rewritten. Migration, civil society and an array of national and transnational players are transforming assumptions about citizenship in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

From the slums of Mumbai to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, from the skyscrapers of Dubai to urbanizing Palestinian refugee camps, the new cities are altering the answers to one of mankind’s oldest questions : where do I belong ?

Authors

Barbara Drieskens is a researcher at the Institut Francais du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Beirut. Franck Mermier is the director of contemporary studies at Ifpo. Heiko Wimmen is a programme manager for the regional Middle East office of the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Beirut.

Content

• Kirsten Maas and Hekio Wimmen
  Preface : Cities and globalisation - Challenges for citizenship
   
• Barbara Drieskens and Franck Mermier
  Introduction : Towards new cosmopolitisms
   
• Jean-François Bayart
  The paradigm of the City

Part One : Cities in motion

• Alain Tarrius
  Europe without borders : migration networks, transnational territories and informal activities
   
• Leïla Vignal
  The emergence of a consumer society in the Middle East
   
• Diane Singerman
  Cairo cosmopolitan : citizenship, urban space, publics and inequality

Part Two : Governing the city

• Myriam Catusse with Raffaele Cattedra and M'hammed Idrissi-Janati
  Decentralisation and its paradoxes in Morocco
   
• Marc Lavergne
  Global city, tribal citizenship : Dubai's paradox
   
• Melhem Chaoul
  Demonstrations in Beirut

Part Three : Spaces of exclusion

• Michel Agier
  From refugee camps to the invention of cities
   
• Engin F. Isin and Kim Rygiel
  Of other global cities : frontiers, zones, camps
   
• Mariana Cavalcanti
  Redefining (il)legal boundaries

Part Four : Imagining the city

• Ayse Öncü
  The politics of Istanbul's Ottoman heritage in the era of globalism
   
• Vyjayanti Rao
  Post-industrial transitions
   
• Franck Mermier
  Beirut : Public shpere of the Arab world ?

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• Jean-françois Bayart
  Conclusion : 21st century cities of the South