Cultures of Circulation and the Urban Imaginary: Miami as Example and Exemplar

Abstract

Edward LiPuma is a professor of anthropology at the University of Miami special-izing in the character of globalization and its implications for politics and culture. He is the author of Encompassing Others: The Magic of Modernity in Melane-sia (2000) and the coauthor (with Benjamin Lee) of Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Riskk (2004) and the forthcoming The Political Culture of Democracy in South Africa (with Thomas Koelble). Thomas Koelble, a political scientist, teaches in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town and studies economic globalization, democratic theory, and traditional leadership in South Africa. His publications include The Left Unraveled: SocialDemocracy and the New Left Challenge in Britain and West Germany (1991) and The Global Economy and Democracy in South Africa (1998).

Translocal Circulation: Place and Subjectivity in an Extended Filipino Community

“…Here, the overlapping of Filipino neighbourhoods onto the weekday spatial practices of Hong Kong's business district creates simultaneous and multiple versions of place (Law, 2001). Scholars theorising the urban are well aware of how such materialisations of circulation serve to produce the globality of urban centres (Liechty 1996;LiPuma & Koelble, 2005). LiPuma and Koelble (p. 154) describe the global city as constituted by and constitutive of 'multiple, transversal and reflexive circulations that are variously and provisionally stabilised'.…”

Re-thinking Copyright Through the Copy in Russia

“…Most of the data that was collected on the practices and organization of pirate businesses took place in St. Petersburg, while expert interviews with anti-piracy activists were conducted in Moscow. All data was aggregated and treated as mutually complementary rather than attached to individual sites, although some informationÁ like that related to shop N*, which is discussed later in this paper Á is treated as an 'exemplar' (LiPuma & Koelble 2005) of the processes in question.…”

Demolition for Development: A Critical Analysis of Official Urban Imaginaries in Past and Present UK Cities

“…Imagination, imagining, the imaginary, and a variety of other terms related to “imagine” have emerged as key ways of understanding, analysing and shaping the ever‐changing city (Amin and Thrift 2002; Cinar and Bender 2007; Donald 1999; LiPuma and Koelble 2005; Westwood and Williams 1997; Zukin, et al. 1998).…”

“…1998, p. 629–30). In another study, LiPuma and Koelble (2005) use the concept of the urban imaginary to show how the identity of Miami has been defined through circulations and flows of people, ideas and goods between North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. The urban imaginary helps to explain why Miami does not fit into the typology of industrialized or production‐based cities which tend to have strong place‐based identities.…”

“…Following LiPuma and Koelble (2005), I use the concept of the urban imaginary to explore cities that are defined by change, and following Zukin et al. (1998), I explore connections between urban imaginaries and processes of growth and decline.…”