Preface : cities and globalisation
challenges for citizenship / Kirsten Maas and Heiko Wimmen
Introduction : towards new cosmopolitisms / Barbara Drieskens and Franck Mermier
The paradigm of the city / Jean-François Bayart
Europe without borders : migration networks, transnational territories and informal activities / Alain Tarrius
The emergence of a consumer society in the Middle East / Leila Vignal
Cairo cosmopolitan : citizenship, urban space, publics and inequality / Diane Singerman
Decentralisation and its paradoxes in Morocco / Myriam Catusse with Raffaele Cattedra and M'hammed Idrissi-Janati
Global city, tribal citizenship : Dubai's paradox / Marc Lavergne
Demonstrations in Beirut / Melhem Chaoul
From refugee camps to the invention of cities / Michel Agier
Of other global cities : frontiers, zones, camps / Engin F. Isin and Kim Rygiel
Redefining (il)legal boundaries / Mariana Cavalcanti
The politics of Istanbul's Ottoman heritage in the era of globalism / Ayşe Öncü
Post-industrial transitions / Vyjayanthi Rao
Beirut : public sphere of the Arab world? / Franck Mermier
Conclusion : 21st century cities of the south / Jean-François Bayart.