Bringing together a team of international scholars with an interest
in urban transformations, spatial justice and territoriality, this
volume questions how the interstice is related to the emerging
processes of partitioning, enclave-making and zoning, showing how
in-between spaces are intimately related to larger flows, networks,
territories and boundaries. Illustrated with a range of case
studies from places such as the US, Quebec, the UK, Italy, Gaza,
Iraq, India, and South-east Asia, the volume analyses the place and
function of interstitial locales in both a 'disciplined' urban
space and a disordered space conceptualized through the notions of
'excess', 'danger' and 'threat'. Warning not to romanticize the
interstice, the book invites us to study it as not simply a place
but also a set of phenomena, events and social interactions. How
are interstices perceived and represented? What is the politics of
visibility that is applied to them? How to capture their peculiar
rhythms, speeds and affects? On the one hand, interstices open up
venues for informality, improvisation, challenge, and bricolage,
playful as well as angry statements on the neoliberal city and
enhanced urban inequalities. On the other hand, they also represent
a crucial site of governance (even governance by withdrawal) and
urban management, where an array of techniques ranging from
military urbanism to new forms of value extraction are
experimented. At the point of convergence of all these tensions,
interstices appear as veritable sites of transformation, where
social forces clash and mesh prefiguring our urban future. The book
interrogates these territories, proposing new ways to explore the
dynamics, events and visibilities that define them.
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