City Life from Jakarta to Dakar
Movements at the Crossroads
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-99322-7
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 16th December 2009
- Pages: 424
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About the Book
City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process—an "anticipatory politics"—that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental problems, nor does it marshal the focal cities as evidence of particular urban trends. Rather, it examines how possibilities, perhaps inherent in these cities all along, are materialized through the everyday projects of residents situated in the city and the larger world in very different ways.
Table of Contents
1. On Cityness 2. Towards an Anticipatory Urban Politics 3. Intersections: What Can Urban Residents Do With Each Other? 4. Circulations: Finance As a Model of City Making 5.Back to Intersection and Recharging the City 6. Reclaiming Black UrbanismAbout the Author(s)
AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Since 1977 he has had many jobs in different cities across African and Southeast Asia, in the fields of education, housing, social welfare, urban development, and local government. His best known publications are In Whose Image: Political Islam and Urban Practices in the Sudan, and For the City Yet to Come: Urban Change in Four African Cities.
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