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Title: Cartographies of anOther Asia and its Other Global City

Where & When: November 3, 2009
                          341 Eggers Hall
                          12:30 pm

Type of Activity: Speaker

Speaking: Shail Mayaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi

Summary: The illustrated talk will draw upon Mayaram’s book, The Other Global City (Routledge, 2009). She argues that thinking about the city in the longue duree and as part of a topography of interconnected regions contests dominant cartographies. These include both statist and nationalist ways of reading cities that have occasioned the many and particularly violent territorial partitions in Asia. She also interrogates the “global cities” literature that views the city as a shimmering “global network” as also clones of the clash of civilization argument that has produced the idea of a homogenous Islam.

Sponsorship: The South Asia Center

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