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"The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities. Building on Marxist, feminist, queer, and critical race theory as well as the ontological turn in urban studies, they propose a mode of analysis that resists the staple of siloed categories such as urban ""economy,"" ""society,"" and ""politics."" In addition to addressing key concepts of urban studies such as dispossession and scale, the contributors examine the infrastructures of plutocratic life in London, reconfigure notions of gentrification as a process of racial banishment, and seek out alternative archives for knowledge about urban density. They also present case studies of city life in the margins and peripheries of Sao Paulo, Kinshasa, Nairobi, and Jakarta. In so doing, they offer a foundation for better understanding the connective and aggregative forces of city-making and the entanglements and relations that constitute cities and their everyday politics. Contributors. Ash Amin, Teresa Caldeira, Filip De Boeck, Suzanne Hall, Caroline Knowles, Michele Lancione, Colin McFarlane, Natalie Oswin, Edgar Pieterse, Ananya Roy, AbdouMaliq Simone, Tatiana Thieme, Nigel Thrift, Mariana Valverde"

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Author:   Ash Amin ,  Michele Lancione
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781478018339

ISBN 10:   147801833
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   10 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione  1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin  27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy  41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane  58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift  82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde  108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira  126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo  150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles  164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme  180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone  199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall  221 Contributors  241 Index  

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Ash Amin is 1931 Chair of Geography at the University of Cambridge and author, coauthor, and editor of many books, including Seeing Like a City and Land of Strangers. Michele Lancione is Professor of Economic and Political Geography, DIST, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, coeditor of Global Urbanism: Knowledge, Power, and the City, and editor of Rethinking Life at the Margins: The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects, and Politics.

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