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Author:   Michele Lancione
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138546912

ISBN 10:   1138546917
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   12 February 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. The Assemblage of Life at the Margins (Michele Lancione) Re-Contextualisation 2. Grand Visions Fizzle on the Margins of the City (Kavita Ramakrishnan) 3. After a Revolution: Public Spaces and Urban Practices in the Core of Tunis (Francesca Governa and Matteo Puttilli) 4. Tasty Vehicles: Gourmet Taco Trucks, ‘Trap’ Parks and Other Planning for Zombis Fresas (Wealthy Zombies) in San Antonio, Texas (Mark Tirpak) 5. Cities That Are Just Cities (AbdouMaliq Simone) Re-Subjectification 6. Under Heartbeat City’s Golden Sun: Māori and the Margins of Performing the Ultimate Urban (Tawhanga Mary-Legs Nopera) 7. ‘The Ghetto Will Always Be My Living Room’: Hustling and Belonging in Nairobi Slums (Tatiana Thieme) 8. From Nomads to Squatters: Towards a Deterritorialisation of Roma Exceptionalism through Assemblage Thinking (Gaja Maestri) 9. The Machine and the Poet: A Tale about how the Subject goes into the Field (and how it comes back) (Jean-Baptiste Lanne) Re-Politicisation 10. Marginal Attachment and Countercycling in the Age of Recycling (Francisco Calafate-Faria) 11. The ‘differentiated countryside’: Survival strategies of rural entrepreneurs (Eszter Krasznai Kovács) 12. Marginality as Resource? From Roma People Territorial Practices, an Epistemological Reframing of Urban Marginality (Elisabetta Rosa) 13. Citizen Participation as Microfascism: Marginalising labour in Web 2.0 (Cheryl Gilge) Openings 14. Between the Fool and the World: Toward a (Re)contextualization of Assemblage Thinking in the Contemporary University (Darren J. Patrick)

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'This excellent collection brings a new focus to an enduring and vital question: how is urban marginality produced, lived and contested? Inspired by poststructural and postcolonial accounts of the city, it provides rich accounts of how the heterogeneity of urbanity produces marginality. By investigating a wide ranging set of domains architectures, publics, infrastructures, slums, waste and others a vivid and nuanced picture emerges of how people and things are sorted into particular urban geographies and how they challenge and exceed those geographies. An important contribution to debates on urban life and inequality.' Colin McFarlane, Durham University, UK 'Rethinking Life at the Margins demonstrates that Southern Urbanism is not a geographic concern but a much more profound epistemic act. This impressive volume, with its masterful introduction, is illuminating and essential reading for urbanists determined to rethink and remake the city anew.' Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town, South Africa '[Th]e book offers is an excellent introduction to previous and the proposed vitalist approach to the study of social marginality. The case studies present a fantastic panorama of the politics one can uncover through vitalist thinking and contribute to a clarification of the critical purchase of the concept of assemblage. As 10 out of the 12 fine-grained and detailed case studies have an urban focus the book seems particularly useful for students and scholars interested in a vitalist perception of urban marginality.'Leonie Tuitjer,Durham University (UK), Society & Space

This excellent collection brings a new focus to an enduring and vital question: how is urban marginality produced, lived and contested? Inspired by poststructural and postcolonial accounts of the city, it provides rich accounts of how the heterogeneity of urbanity produces marginality. By investigating a wide ranging set of domains - architectures, publics, infrastructures, slums, waste, and others - a vivid and nuanced picture emerges of how people and things are sorted into particular urban geographies, and how they challenge and exceed those geographies. An important contribution to debates on urban life and inequality. Colin McFarlane, Durham University, UK 'This excellent collection brings a new focus to an enduring and vital question: how is urban marginality produced, lived and contested? Inspired by poststructural and postcolonial accounts of the city, it provides rich accounts of how the heterogeneity of urbanity produces marginality. By investigating a wide ranging set of domains architectures, publics, infrastructures, slums, waste and others a vivid and nuanced picture emerges of how people and things are sorted into particular urban geographies and how they challenge and exceed those geographies. An important contribution to debates on urban life and inequality.' Colin McFarlane, Durham University, UK 'Rethinking Life at the Margins demonstrates that Southern Urbanism is not a geographic concern but a much more profound epistemic act. This impressive volume, with its masterful introduction, is illuminating and essential reading for urbanists determined to rethink and remake the city anew.' Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town, South Africa '[Th]e book offers is an excellent introduction to previous and the proposed vitalist approach to the study of social marginality. The case studies present a fantastic panorama of the politics one can uncover through vitalist thinking and contribute to a clarification of the critical purchase of the concept of assemblage. As 10 out of the 12 fine-grained and detailed case studies have an urban focus the book seems particularly useful for students and scholars interested in a vitalist perception of urban marginality.' Leonie Tuitjer,Durham University (UK), Society & Space

'This excellent collection brings a new focus to an enduring and vital question: how is urban marginality produced, lived and contested? Inspired by poststructural and postcolonial accounts of the city, it provides rich accounts of how the heterogeneity of urbanity produces marginality. By investigating a wide ranging set of domains architectures, publics, infrastructures, slums, waste and others a vivid and nuanced picture emerges of how people and things are sorted into particular urban geographies and how they challenge and exceed those geographies. An important contribution to debates on urban life and inequality.' Colin McFarlane, Durham University, UK 'Rethinking Life at the Margins demonstrates that Southern Urbanism is not a geographic concern but a much more profound epistemic act. This impressive volume, with its masterful introduction, is illuminating and essential reading for urbanists determined to rethink and remake the city anew.' Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town, South Africa '[Th]e book offers is an excellent introduction to previous and the proposed vitalist approach to the study of social marginality. The case studies present a fantastic panorama of the politics one can uncover through vitalist thinking and contribute to a clarification of the critical purchase of the concept of assemblage. As 10 out of the 12 fine-grained and detailed case studies have an urban focus the book seems particularly useful for students and scholars interested in a vitalist perception of urban marginality.' Leonie Tuitjer,Durham University (UK), Society & Space

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Michele Lancione is Urban Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK.

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