Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South

ISBN-13: 9781509523368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 120 str.

AbdouMaliq Simone

Opis

The poor and working people the majority in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside, to inhabit.

Recenzje

"Here, urban worlds - metal scrap, unhinged concrete, electrical waste, slowdowns, and interruptions - emerge with and through secretive human connections. AbdouMaliq Simone narrates the urban as an aesthetics of promise, where the uninhabitable generates districts of improvising communities, collectively living-with, and unsettling, infrastructures of harm."Katherine McKittrick, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada'A brilliant and innovative account of urban life, seen both as confined to place and at the same time enduring and generative, composed through the weaving together of different experiments, connections, gatherings and imaginaries. As ever in his work, Simone provides us with a unique perspective on the city, and a distinctive way of seeing urbanism and speculating on its social, economic and political potentials.'Colin McFarlane, Durham University

Spis treści

Acknowledgements vi1 The Uninhabitable 12 Ensemble Work 343 The Mechanics of Improvised Relations 594 Inscribing Sociality in the Dark: The Pragmatics of a Legible Home 895 The Politics of Peripheral Care 122References 138Index 147

O autorze

AbdouMaliq Simone is Professor at the Max Plank Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.