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What Is A Global City? Through A Historical-ethnographic Exploration Of Inter-ethnic Relations In Cairo, Beirut, Istanbul, Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur And Tokyo, The Contributors Of This Book Highlight Cartographies Of The 'other Global City'. Introduction: Rereading Global Cities: Topographies Of An Alternative Cosmopolitanism In Asia / Shail Mayaram -- Cosmopolitanism And The State -- Beneficence And Difference: Ottoman Awqaf And Other Subjects / Engin F. Isin -- Living Together In Lhasa: Ethnic Relations, Coercive Amity, And Subaltern Cosmopolitanism / Emily T. Yeh -- Intelligent City: From Ethnic Governmentality To Ethnic Evolutionism / Aihwa Ong -- Cosmopolitanism Compromised/denied -- Impossible Cosmopolises: Dislocations And Relocations In Beirut And Delhi / Yasmeen Arif -- Limiting Cosmopolitanism: Streetlife Little India, Kuala Lumpur / Yeoh Seng Guan -- Invisibility And Cohabitation In Multiethnic Tokyo / John Lie -- Cosmopolitan Microprocesses -- Cairo Cosmopolitan: Living Together Through Communal Divide, Almost / Asef Bayat -- Cosmoplitanism And The City: Interaction And Coexistence In Bukhara / Caroline Humphrey, Magnus Marsden, Vera Skvirskaja. Edited By Shail Mayaram. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.