Grammars of the urban ground /

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 urba...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Amin, Ash (Editor), Lancione, Michele (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
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Table of 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.