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OverviewUrban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban studies, offering a decolonisation and reconfiguration of both of these already interdisciplinary fields. With chapter-length discussions of comics from cities such as Cairo, Cape Town, New Orleans, Delhi and Beirut, this book shows how artistic collectives and urban social movements working across the global South are producing some of the most exciting and formally innovative graphic narratives of the contemporary moment. Throughout, the author reads an expansive range of graphic narratives through the vocabulary of urban studies to argue that these formal innovations should be thought of as a kind of infrastructure. This ‘infrastructural form’ allows urban comics to reveal that the built environments of our cities are not static, banal, or depoliticised, but rather highly charged material spaces that allow some forms of social life to exist while also prohibiting others. Built from a formal infrastructure of grids, gutters and panels, and capable of volumetric, multi-scalar perspectives, this book shows how urban comics are able to represent, repair and even rebuild contemporary global cities toward more socially just and sustainable ends. Operating at the intersection of comics studies and urban studies, and offering large global surveys alongside close textual and visual analyses, this book explores and opens up the fascinating relationship between comics and graphic narratives, on the one hand, and cities and urban spaces, on the other. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Dominic Davies (City, University of London, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367660635ISBN 10: 0367660636 Pages: 274 Publication Date: 30 September 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives Introduction: The Camp and the City Form and Infrastructure Infrastructural Form Comics Collectives as Networked Urban Social Movements The Image of the Global City New York, New York: A Brief History of Comics and the City Five Southern City Case Studies Chapter 1. Drawing Public Space: Revolutionary Visual Cultures and the Right to the City in Cairo Introduction: Revolutionary Visual Cultures and Gendered Public Spaces Egyptian ‘Comix’, Online and Offline Urban Cairo in Text and Image Vision and Visibility in Magdy El Shafee’s Metro (2008) Volume and Verticality in Deena Mohamed’s Qahera, the Webcomic, Not the City (2013-2015) Building Comics, Building Cities Chapter 2. Image-Making in the Global City: Eco-Speculative Fictions and Urban Social Movements in Cape Town Introduction: South African Cartoons, Comix and Co-mixed Visual Cultures Privatisation, Segregation and Image-Making in the Global City Afrofuturism, Solarpunk and Water Politics Flooding the Cape Town ‘Utopia’ Turning to Townships: Urban Social Movements in Cape Town Chapter 3. Graphic Katrina: Disaster Capitalism and Tourism Gentrification in New Orleans Introduction: ‘There’s No Such Thing As A Natural Disaster’ Voyeurism and Voluntourism in the ‘Drowned City’ Vertical Perspectives in Josh Neufeld’s A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge (2009) Comics and Zines in New Orleans: Gentrifying Forms, DIY Cities Autographics, Art and Activism in Erin Wilson’s Snowbird (2013) Chapter 4. Comics, Collectives, Collaborations: Engineering Pedestrian and Public Spaces in Delhi Introduction: The City-as-Circuitboard ‘Engineering’ Comics: Orijit Sen and the Pao Collective World Class Delhi: Politics in the City ‘Inside-Out’ Pedestrianism and Penmanship in Sarnath Banerjee’s Graphic Narratives Histories of the Neoliberal Present in Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s Delhi Calm (2010) Gendering the Right to the City: Women’s Maps, Women’s Lines Chapter 5. Comics as Infrastructure: Public Space and Post-war Reconstruction in Beirut Introduction: Post-war Reconstruction in the Neoliberal Era Weaponised Infrastructure in Wartime Beirut Rebuilding the City in Zeina Abirached’s Graphic Memoirs Lamia Ziadé’s Bye Bye Babylon: The City as Witness Urban Warfare and Civilian Life in Text and Image New Geographies of Beirut: Samandal as Urban Social Movement Conclusion. Bordered Forms, Bordered WorldsReviewsAn outstanding book about the relevance of comics in contemporary urban struggles. --Joern Ahrens, University of Giessen, Germany Author InformationDominic Davies is a Lecturer in English at City, University of London. In 2018 he finished a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford, where he also completed his DPhil and established the TORCH Network, ‘Comics and Graphic Novels: The Politics of Form’. He is the author of Imperial Infrastructure and Spatial Resistance in Colonial Literature, 1880-1930 (2017), along with a number of articles and book chapters exploring the relationship between urban infrastructure, the built environment and artistic and literary cultures. He is the co-editor of Fighting Words: Fifteen Books that Shaped the Postcolonial World (2017) and Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructure, Literature & Culture (2018). He is also the editor of a collection of essays and comics entitled Documenting Trauma in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories & Graphic Reportage (2019). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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