Urban Theory Beyond the West : A World of Cities (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Urban Theory Beyond ‘the West’  Part 1: De-Centring the City  2. No Longer the Subaltern: Refiguring Cities of the Global South  3. China Exceptionalism? Unbounding Narratives on Urban China  4. Urban Theory beyond the ‘East/West Divide’? Cities and Urban Research in Postsocialist Europe  5. Urbanism, Colonialism, and Subalternity  Part 2: Order/Disorder  6. Governing Cities without States? Rethinking Urban Political Theories in Asia  7. Public Parks in the Americas: New York City and Buenos Aires  8. An Illness Called Managua: ‘Extraordinary’ Urbanisation and ‘Mal- Development’ in Nicaragua  9. The Concept of Privacy and Space in Kurdish Cities  10. The Networked City: Popular Modernizers and Urban Transformation in Morelia, Mexico, 1880-1955  Part 3: Mobilities  11. Distinctly Delhi: Affect and Exclusion in a Crowded City  12. Shanghai Borderlands: The Rise of a New Urbanity?  13. Contemporary Urban Culture in Latin America: Everyday Life in Santiago, Chile  14. Urban (Im)mobility: Public Encounters in Dubai  Part 4: Imaginaries  15. Reality Tours: Experiencing the ‘Real Thing’ in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas  16. Modern Warfare and Theorization of the Middle Eastern City  17. Reading Thai Community: Reformation and Fragmentation  18. Urban Political Ecology in the Global South: Everyday Environmental Struggles of Home in Managua, Nicaragua  19. Spectral Kinshasa: Building the City through an Architecture of Words  20. Afterword: A World of Cities