Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

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Additional Authors

• Amin, Ash
• Lancione, Michele

Description

[vii], 251 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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"--

Subject

• Sociology, Urban
• City planning > Political aspects
• Marginality, Social > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

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

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.

Call Number

JFE 22-3812

ISBN

• 9781478015710
• 1478015713
• 9781478018339
• 147801833X

LCCN

2021041695

OCLC

• 1264141917
• 1264141917

Title

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

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

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

Added Author

Amin, Ash, editor.

Lancione, Michele, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Grammars of the urban ground. Durham : Duke University Press, 2022 9781478022954 (DLC) 2021041696

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3812