Disassembled Cities: Social and Spatial Strategies to Reassemble Communities

ISBN-13: 9781138097988 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str.

Elizabeth Sweet; Tim Imeokparia; Ivan Arenas

Opis

This book’s analysis is not only focused on the urban, political, and economic effects of contemporary capitalism, but is also concerned with a collective analytic that addresses these processes through the lens of disassembling and reassembling dynamics. In-depth case studies from scholars working in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia showcase how various cities are responding to the effects of neoliberalism. Chapters investigate and demonstrate how the neoliberal processes of dissembling are being countered by positive and engaged efforts of reassembly. From Colombia to Siberia, Chicago to Nigeria, contributions engage with key economic and urban questions surrounding the militarization of state, democracy, the rise of the global capital and the education of young people in slums.

Spis treści

Part I Introduction: The Promises and Perils of Urban Theory Under the Shadow of Globalization   1. Disassembling Cities: Spatial, Social, and Conceptual Trajectories Across the Urban Globe  2. A Pragmatic View of Valuation for Theorizing Spatial Production in Urban planning Thought  Part II Transformation of Self and Space  3. The Organizing Logics of Predatory Formations: Individualism, Identity, and the Consumption of Goods as the Good Life   4. Trajectories, Vectors and Change: Mapping Late Neoliberal Assemblage  5. Rise of the Synthetic City: Eko Atlantic and Practices of Dispossession and Repossession in Nigeria  6. Reassembling the City through Intersectional Feminism: Subversive Responses to the Economic Crisis in Barcelona Part III Militarization and the Spectacle of the (In)Security State  7. The Organizing Logics of Predatory Formations: Militarization and the Spectacle of the (In)Security State  8. Dissasembling Foundational Fictions of Democracy: The People and the Plaza, Militarization and Mobilization in Oaxaca  9. Dis/Assembling Palestine  10. Urban Assemblages and Dis-assemblages: Medellín's Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Forums  Part IV Disassembling Democracy and Urban Planning  11. The Organizing Logics of Predatory Formations: Disassembling Democracy and Urban Planning  12. Some Thoughts and Findings from the Field: Women and the Illicit Politics of Slum Redevelopment in Globalizing Mumbai  13. Disassembledge in the Siberian City of Ulan-Ude: How Ethnic Buryats Reconstruct Through Time and Space  14. How to take Flight from Menacing Futures? Young People and Education in the Slums of the Global South  15. Chronic and Concentrated Youth Joblessness in Disassembled Neighborhoods in Chicago