Rethinking Life at the Margins

The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects, and Politics
Herausgeber: Lancione, Michele

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Experimenting with new ways of looking at the contexts, subjects, processes and multiple political stances that make up life at the margins, this book provides a novel source for a critical rethinking of marginalisation. Drawing on post-colonialism and critical assemblage thinking, the rich ethnographic work presented in the book trace the assemblage of marginality in multiple case-studies encompassing the Global North and South. The reader will find in this book unique challenges to accepted and authoritative thinking, providing new insights into researching life at the margins of interest to scholars in Geography, Development Studies, Urban Studies, Politics and Economics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781472465757
• ISBN-10: 147246575X
• Artikelnr.: 45003051

Autorenporträt

Michele is Senior Research Fellow at the Urban Institute and at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The Assemblage of Life at the Margins
(Michele Lancione)
Re-Contextualisation
2. Grand Visions Fizzle on the Margins of the City
(Kavita Ramakrishnan)
3. After a Revolution: Public Spaces and Urban Practices in the Core of
Tunis
(Francesca Governa and Matteo Puttilli)
4. Tasty Vehicles: Gourmet Taco Trucks, 'Trap' Parks and Other Planning for
Zombis Fresas (Wealthy Zombies) in San Antonio, Texas
(Mark Tirpak)
5. Cities That Are Just Cities
(AbdouMaliq Simone)
Re-Subjectification
6. Under Heartbeat City's Golden Sun: M¿ori and the Margins of Performing
the Ultimate Urban
(Tawhanga Mary-Legs Nopera)
7. 'The Ghetto Will Always Be My Living Room': Hustling and Belonging in
Nairobi Slums
(Tatiana Thieme)
8. From Nomads to Squatters: Towards a Deterritorialisation of Roma
Exceptionalism through Assemblage Thinking
(Gaja Maestri)
9. The Machine and the Poet: A Tale about how the Subject goes into the
Field (and how it comes back)
(Jean-Baptiste Lanne)
Re-Politicisation
10. Marginal Attachment and Countercycling in the Age of Recycling
(Francisco Calafate-Faria)
11. The 'differentiated countryside': Survival strategies of rural
entrepreneurs
(Eszter Krasznai Kovács)
12. Marginality as Resource? From Roma People Territorial Practices, an
Epistemological Reframing of Urban Marginality
(Elisabetta Rosa)
13. Citizen Participation as Microfascism: Marginalising labour in Web 2.0
(Cheryl Gilge)
Openings
14. Between the Fool and the World: Toward a (Re)contextualization of
Assemblage Thinking in the Contemporary University
(Darren J. Patrick)