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Cities, at their best, are cradles of diversity, opportunity, and citizenship. Why, then, do so many cities today seem scarred by divisions separating the powerful and privileged from the victims of deprivation and injustice? In this book, based on the internationally renowned Oxford Amnesty Lectures, eight leading urban thinkers argue about why divisions arise in cities and about what could and should be done to bring those divisions to an end. The many contemporary issues that the book addresses include the impact of globalization and migration on the urban environment, the consequences of the 'war on terror' for those living in cities, the new development paradigm being adopted by international institutions in the developing world, the need for a genuine urban renaissance in Britain and elsewhere, and the suffering of the homeless.

rologue: Globalization, globality, globe-stone / Patrick Chamoiseau --. - Introduction / Eva Sansavior and Richard Scholar --. - The archipelago goes global: late Glissant and the early modern isolario / Richard Scholar --. - How globalization invented Indians in the Caribbean / Patricia Seed --. - Precocious modernity: environmental change in the early Caribbean / Philip D. Morgan --. - 'Slaves' in my family: French modes of servitude in the New World / Christopher L. Miller --. - Paradoxical encounters: the essay as a space of globalization in Montaigne's 'Des cannibales' and Maryse Condé's "O brave new world' / Eva Sansavior --. - Tobacco: the commodification of the Caribbean and the origins of globalization / Guillaume Pigeard de Gurbert --. - The amaranth paradigm: Amerindian indigenous glocality in the Caribbean / Judith Misrahi-Barak --. - Aluminium: globalizing Caribbean mobilities, Caribbeanizing global mobilities / Mimi Sheller --. - Race and modernity in Hispaniola: tropical matters and development perspectives / David Howard --. - Local, national, regional, global: Glissant and the postcolonial manifesto / Charles Forsdick --. - Tropical apocalypse: globalization and the Caribbean end times / Martin Munro