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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: AbdouMaliq Simone , Abdoumaliq Simone (Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780816693368ISBN 10: 0816693366 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 15 August 2014 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction: Rehearsal for an Urban Commons in Jakarta 1. The Near-South: Between Megablock and Slum 2. The Urban Majority: Improvised Livelihoods in Mixed-up Districts 3. Devising Relations: Markets, Streets, Households, and Workshops 4. Endurance: Risking the Familiar 5. Inventive Policy: Integrating Residents into Running the City Conclusion: Reimagining a Commons Bibliography IndexReviewsIt is increasingly becoming clear that cities live by multiple logics and modes of existence, defying essentialist or totalizing encapsulations. Yet, the tools to get close to the living, changing, plural city remain far from adequate. In this engrossing book on Jakarta, AbdouMaliq Simone takes a giant step forward by offering a set of mid-range concepts and a writing style that uncover the structured and improvised recursions of the world's mega-cities. An essential and exciting read. --Ash Amin, University of Cambridge AbdouMaliq Simone provides a bridge between Deleuzian techniques and ethnographic account of different places in Jakarta. Jakarta thus is not subsumed under particular theories; instead the city itself is a theory-a way of thinking, a way of living. The text itself is a city like Jakarta that offers no comfortable vantage point, but unplanned pathways that often lead, fortunately, to surprising scenes and inspiring commentaries. --Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia ""It is increasingly becoming clear that cities live by multiple logics and modes of existence, defying essentialist or totalizing encapsulations. Yet, the tools to get close to the living, changing, plural city remain far from adequate. In this engrossing book on Jakarta, AbdouMaliq Simone takes a giant step forward by offering a set of mid-range concepts and a writing style that uncover the structured and improvised recursions of the world's mega-cities. An essential and exciting read."" —Ash Amin, University of Cambridge ""AbdouMaliq Simone provides a bridge between Deleuzian techniques and ethnographic account of different places in Jakarta. Jakarta thus is not subsumed under particular theories; instead the city itself is a theory-a way of thinking, a way of living. The text itself is a city like Jakarta that offers no comfortable vantage point, but unplanned pathways that often lead, fortunately, to surprising scenes and inspiring commentaries."" —Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia AbdouMaliq Simone provides a bridge between Deleuzian techniques and ethnographic account of different places in Jakarta. Jakarta thus is not subsumed under particular theories; instead the city itself is a theory-a way of thinking, a way of living. The text itself is a city like Jakarta that offers no comfortable vantage point, but unplanned pathways that often lead, fortunately, to surprising scenes and inspiring commentaries. --Abidin Kusno, University of British Columbia Author InformationAbdouMaliq Simone is research professor at the University of South Australia. He is the coeditor and author of several books, including Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City and City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements of the Crossroads. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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