The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new
conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex,
ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary
cities. Building on Marxist, feminist, queer, and critical race
theory as well as the ontological turn in urban studies, they
propose a mode of analysis that resists the staple of siloed
categories such as urban "economy," "society," and "politics." In
addition to addressing key concepts of urban studies such as
dispossession and scale, the contributors examine the
infrastructures of plutocratic life in London, reconfigure notions
of gentrification as a process of racial banishment, and seek out
alternative archives for knowledge about urban density. They also
present case studies of city life in the margins and peripheries of
Sao Paulo, Kinshasa, Nairobi, and Jakarta. In so doing, they offer
a foundation for better understanding the connective and
aggregative forces of city-making and the entanglements and
relations that constitute cities and their everyday politics.
Contributors. Ash Amin, Teresa Caldeira, Filip De Boeck, Suzanne
Hall, Caroline Knowles, Michele Lancione, Colin McFarlane, Natalie
Oswin, Edgar Pieterse, Ananya Roy, AbdouMaliq Simone, Tatiana
Thieme, Nigel Thrift, Mariana Valverde
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