Improvised Lives

Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5095-2336-8
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 223 g

The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in more expansive ways that capture what really goes on within them? In such cities, popular districts are the settings of more uncertain operations that take place under the cover of darkness, generating uncanny alliances among disparate bodies, materials and things and expanding the urban sensorium and its capacities for liveliness.

In this important new book AbdouMaliq Simone explores the nature of these alliances, portraying urban districts as sites of enduring transformations through rhythms that mediate between the needs of residents not to draw too much attention to themselves and their aspirations to become a small niche of exception. Here we discover an urban South that exists as dense rhythms of endurance that turn out to be vital for survival, connectivity, and becoming.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simone, Abdoumaliq

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vi

1 The Uninhabitable 1

2 Ensemble Work 34

3 The Mechanics of Improvised Relations 59

4 Inscribing Sociality in the Dark: The Pragmatics of a Legible Home 89

5 The Politics of Peripheral Care 122

References 138

Index 147

Über Autor(innen)

AbdouMaliq Simone is Professor at the Max Plank Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.