It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in profound societal and cultural shifts.
In this highly original account, renowned urban sociologists Abdou Maliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse offer a call for action based fundamentally on the detail of people’s lives. Urban regions are replete with residents who are compelled to come up with innovative ways to maintain or extend livelihoods, whose makeshift character is rarely institutionalized into a fixed set of practices, locales or organizational forms. This novel analytical approach reveals a more complex relationship between people, the state and other agents than has previously been understood. As the authors argue, we need adequate concepts and practices to grasp the composition and intricacy of these shifting efforts to make visible new political possibilities for action and social justice in cities across Asia and Africa.
In this highly original account, renowned urban sociologists Abdou Maliq Simone and Edgar Pieterse offer a call for action based fundamentally on the detail of people’s lives. Urban regions are replete with residents who are compelled to come up with innovative ways to maintain or extend livelihoods, whose makeshift character is rarely institutionalized into a fixed set of practices, locales or organizational forms. This novel analytical approach reveals a more complex relationship between people, the state and other agents than has previously been understood. As the authors argue, we need adequate concepts and practices to grasp the composition and intricacy of these shifting efforts to make visible new political possibilities for action and social justice in cities across Asia and Africa.
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表中的内容
Detailed Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Preface
Chapter 1: Paradoxes of the Urban
Chapter 2: Precarious Now
Chapter 3: Re-Description
Chapter 4: Secretions
Chapter 5: Horizons From Within the Break
Chapter 6: Experimentations
Chapter 7: Epilogue: A Story About Stories
Endnotes
References
关于作者
Abdou Maliq Simone is Professor of Sociology and Urbanism at Goldsmiths, University of London.Edgar Pieterse is South African Research Chair in Urban Policy at the University of Cape Town.
语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 192 ● ISBN 9780745691596 ● 文件大小 1.4 MB ● 出版者 John Wiley & Sons ● 发布时间 2017 ● 版 1 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 5286303 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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