Grammars of the urban ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amin, Ash, editor.

Lancione, Michele, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

City planning--Political aspects.

City planning.

Marginality, Social--Political aspects.

Marginality, Social.

urban sociology.

Physical Description:

[vii], 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"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 São 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Thinking cities from the ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione

Social junk / Natalie Oswin

Grammars of dispossession : racial banishment in the American metropolis / Ananya Roy

Future densities : knowledge, politics and remaking the city / Colin McFarlane

Big : rethinking the cultural imprint of mass urbanization / Nigel Thrift

Urban legal forms and practices of citizenship / Mariana Valverde

Transitoriness : emergent time/space formations of urban collective life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira

Suturing the (w)hole : vitalities of everyday urban living in Congo / Filip De Boeck

Infrastructures of plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles

Affirmative vocabularies from and for the street

Tatiana Thieme and Edgar Pieterse

Deformation : remaking urban peripheries through lateral comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone

Edge syntax : vocabularies for violent times / Suzanne M. Hall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-239) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Grammars of the urban ground.

ISBN:

9781478015710

1478015713

9781478018339

147801833X

OCLC:

1264141917