Urban communities / city life Books
Bristol University Press The New Urban Ruins
Book SynopsisThis book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy. The contributors develop new empirical insights that rethink ruination, urban development and political contestation over the re-use of vacant spaces in post-crisis cities across the globe.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di Feliciantonio Part 1 ~ Rethinking Ruination in the Post-Crisis Context Rem(a)inders of Loss: A Lacanian Approach to New Urban Ruins ~ Lucas Pohl Dignifying the Ruins: A Former Jewish Girl’s School in Berlin ~ Karen E. Till Traversing Wastelands: Reflections on an Abandoned Railway Yard ~ Sandra Jasper Building the New Urban Ruin: The Ghost City of Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia ~ Christina Lee Part 2 ~ The Political Economy of Urban Vacant Space Nullius No More? Valorising Vacancy Through Urban Agriculture in the Settler-Colonial ‘Green City’ ~ Nathan McClintock Conflicting Rationalities and Messy Actualities of Dealing With Vacant Housing in Halle/Saale, East Germany ~ Nina Gribat Post-Disaster Ruins: The Old, the New, and the Temporary ~ Sara Caramaschi and Alessandro Coppola The Post-Crisis Properties of Demolishing Detroit, Michigan ~ Michael R.J. Koscielniak Guarding Presence: Absent Owners and the Labour of Managing Vacancy ~ Lauren Wagner Part 3 ~ Re-Appropriating Urban Vacant Spaces Politicising Vacancy and Commoning Housing in Municipalist Barcelona ~ Mara Ferreri Spatio-Legal World-making in Vacant Buildings: Property Politics and Squatting Movements in the City of São Paulo ~ Matthew Caulkins (Im)material Infrastructures and the Reproduction of Alternative Social Projects in Urban Vacant Spaces ~ Cesare Di Feliciantonio and Cian O’Callaghan Tracing the Role of Material and Immaterial Infrastructures in Imagining Diverse Urban Futures: Dublin’s Bolt Hostel and Apollo House ~ Rachel McArdle Conclusion: Centring Vacancy – Towards a Research Agenda ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di Feliciantonio
£76.00
Bristol University Press The New Urban Ruins
Book SynopsisThis book provides an innovative perspective to consider contemporary urban challenges through the lens of urban vacancy. The contributors develop new empirical insights that rethink ruination, urban development and political contestation over the re-use of vacant spaces in post-crisis cities across the globe.Table of ContentsIntroduction ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di Feliciantonio Part 1 ~ Rethinking Ruination in the Post-Crisis Context Rem(a)inders of Loss: A Lacanian Approach to New Urban Ruins ~ Lucas Pohl Dignifying the Ruins: A Former Jewish Girl’s School in Berlin ~ Karen E. Till Traversing Wastelands: Reflections on an Abandoned Railway Yard ~ Sandra Jasper Building the New Urban Ruin: The Ghost City of Ordos Kangbashi, Inner Mongolia ~ Christina Lee Part 2 ~ The Political Economy of Urban Vacant Space Nullius No More? Valorising Vacancy Through Urban Agriculture in the Settler-Colonial ‘Green City’ ~ Nathan McClintock Conflicting Rationalities and Messy Actualities of Dealing With Vacant Housing in Halle/Saale, East Germany ~ Nina Gribat Post-Disaster Ruins: The Old, the New, and the Temporary ~ Sara Caramaschi and Alessandro Coppola The Post-Crisis Properties of Demolishing Detroit, Michigan ~ Michael R.J. Koscielniak Guarding Presence: Absent Owners and the Labour of Managing Vacancy ~ Lauren Wagner Part 3 ~ Re-Appropriating Urban Vacant Spaces Politicising Vacancy and Commoning Housing in Municipalist Barcelona ~ Mara Ferreri Spatio-Legal World-making in Vacant Buildings: Property Politics and Squatting Movements in the City of São Paulo ~ Matthew Caulkins (Im)material Infrastructures and the Reproduction of Alternative Social Projects in Urban Vacant Spaces ~ Cesare Di Feliciantonio and Cian O’Callaghan Tracing the Role of Material and Immaterial Infrastructures in Imagining Diverse Urban Futures: Dublin’s Bolt Hostel and Apollo House ~ Rachel McArdle Conclusion: Centring Vacancy – Towards a Research Agenda ~ Cian O’Callaghan and Cesare Di Feliciantonio
£25.64
Bristol University Press Tomorrows Communities
Book SynopsisThis book sets out how people's lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of community involvement. It shows how communities can become more collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face and provides a guide to what a holistic policy agenda for community-based transformation should encompass.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 The challenges for tomorrow’s communities ~ Henry Tam PART A: Transforming socioeconomic relations in communities 2 The case for community economic development ~ Ed Mayo and Pat Conaty 3 Reciprocity and alternative mediums of exchange ~ Martin Simon 4 Regeneration in partnership with communities ~ Gabriel Chanan 5 Worker cooperatives and economic democracy ~ Pat Conaty and Philip Ross PART B: Transforming collaborative behaviour with communities 6 Four factors for better community collaboration ~ Steve Wyler 7 The importance of community-based learning ~ Marjorie Mayo 8 The 45 ° Change model for remaking power relations ~ Colin Miller and Neal Lawson 9 Connecting at the edges for collective change ~ Alison Gilchrist PART C: Transforming policy outcomes by communities 10 Co-production and the role of preventive infrastructure ~ David Boyle 11 Humanising health and social care ~ John Restakis 12 Reshaping the food aid landscape ~ Alice Willatt, Rosalind Beadle and Mary Brydon- Miller 13 Sustainable communities for the future ~ Diane Warburton Conclusion 14 The policy agenda for community-based transformation ~ Henry Tam
£25.64
BUP - Policy Press Advancing Health Rights and Tackling Inequalities
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£71.99
Bristol University Press Bringing Home the Housing Crisis
Book SynopsisOften portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept. This book explores the legislative changes dismantling vulnerable groups’ rights to decent and affordable housing.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The politicisation of home 2. The bedroom tax and diminishing rights to home 3. Temporary is the new permanent: temporary accommodation policy and the rise of family homelessness 4. The criminalisation of home: section 144 and its impact on London’s squatters 5. Fighting for home: activism and resistance in precarious times Conclusion
£72.00
The University of North Carolina Press Precarious Constructions
Book SynopsisThis sharply argued book posits that urban revitalization - making better' city living spaces from those that have been neglected due to racist city planning and divestment - is a code word for fraught, state-managed gentrification.
£69.70
The University of North Carolina Press Precarious Constructions
Book SynopsisThis sharply argued book posits that urban revitalization - making better' city living spaces from those that have been neglected due to racist city planning and divestment - is a code word for fraught, state-managed gentrification.
£18.86
University of Texas Press Breaking the Gender Code
Book SynopsisA history of the activism that made public spaces in American cities more accessible to women.Trade ReviewIn charting women’s efforts across the nation to secure inclusion in urban public space over the long twentieth century, Georgina Hickey reveals how fundamental gender segregation was—and remains—to ‘organizing and stratifying’ American society….[G]ender segregation…’justified harassment and violence against other women,’ particularly women of color, immigrant, queer, and working-class women. This is a major contribution to both urban history and women’s, gender and sexuality studies. * Lit Hub *Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1. Right and Reason: Understandings of Women’s Presence in the Modern City 2. Building Women into the City: Infrastructure and Services in the Early Twentieth Century 3. The City and the Girl: Midcentury Consumption, Civil Rights, and (In)Visibility 4. When Girls Became Women: Confronting Exclusion and Harassment in the Long 1960s 5. The Public Is Political: Demanding Safe Streets and Neighborhoods 6. Taking Up Space and Making Place: Late-Century Institution Building 7. Privacy in Public: The (Almost) Policy Revolution Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Index
£31.50
Duke University Press Garbage Citizenship
Book SynopsisRosalind Fredericks traces the volatile trash politics in Dakar, Senegal, to examine urban citizenship in the context of urban austerity and democratic politics, showing how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identifies and mobilizing political action.Trade Review"Garbage Citizenship isn’t solely about urban rubbish collection in Senegal’s capital. The book uses waste collector strikes and activism to explore broader effects of labour relations, citizen advocacy, neoliberal reform, and religious understandings of purity and pollution." -- Christine Ro * Environment and Urbanization *"A powerful account of the centrality of infrastructure, waste and labor for writing larger stories of urban transformation and citizenship in Dakar and beyond." -- Colin McFarlane * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Garbage Citizenship powerfully details. . . how the responsibility for waste has disproportionately fallen on the urban poor." -- Jacob Doherty * American Anthropologist *"An engaging study of garbage infrastructure in Senegal’s capital that foregrounds both the human labor it takes to keep the city clean and the ways that failures to do so become goads to political action." -- Dagna Rams * American Ethnologist *"Garbage Citizenship is a significant contribution and necessary reading for scholars of infrastructural governance and politics, labor geographies, African urban studies, and discard studies." -- Kathleen Stokes * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“Fredericks presents a dazzling excavation of the many strata of garbage politics. … Fredericks’s book gives us new tools for understanding how that power works.” -- Chris Tilly * American Journal of Sociology *“Fredericks goes beyond the conventional view of waste infrastructure as capital equipment by drawing from labor studies. She expands the literature on urban citizenship by conceptualizing Dakar’s working poor as waste infrastructure whose social responsibility, political actions, and religious ideology shaped state-society relations…. [S]he provides additional lens with which to study material politics in African cities.” -- Adebisi Alade * African Studies Quarterly *“The book offers a crucial example of innovative reworking of urban governance from the South. In an age of widespread public sector cutbacks across African (and indeed global) cities, and growing labour casualization in the global North…Garbage Citizenship offers an affirmative story of labour bargaining.” -- Tatiana A. Thieme * Development and Change *“Garbage Citizenship presents an in-depth analysis of the ways that garbage, and waste infrastructures, played a central role in the politics of urban change in Dakar. This text presents a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of infrastructures as a complex artefact of urban life, adding to the growing field of infrastructure studies…” -- Jenny McArthur * Urban Studies *"Garbage Citizenship introduce[s] the possibility of understanding political practices based on the material elements that make up the city—a huge and novel contribution…. [It] will be essential reading for those interested in urban politics and everyday life in the Global South for many years to come, just as the contentious politics of urban space will shape the contours of Africa well into the future.” -- Jeffrey W. Paller * Peace Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Trash Matters 1 1. Governing Disposability 27 2. Vital Infrastructures of Labor 60 3. Technologies of Community 97 4. The Piety of Refusal 123 Conclusion. Garbage Citizenship 149 Notes 155 References 171 Index 193
£86.70
Duke University Press Garbage Citizenship
Book SynopsisOver the last twenty-five years, garbage infrastructure in Dakar, Senegal, has taken center stage in the struggles over government, the value of labor, and the dignity of the working poor. Through strikes and public dumping, Dakar's streets have been periodically inundated with household garbage as the city's trash collectors and ordinary residents protest urban austerity. Often drawing on discourses of Islamic piety, garbage activists have provided a powerful language to critique a neoliberal mode of governing-through-disposability and assert rights to fair labor. In Garbage Citizenship Rosalind Fredericks traces Dakar's volatile trash politics to recalibrate how we understand urban infrastructure by emphasizing its material, social, and affective elements. She shows how labor is a key component of infrastructural systems and how Dakar's residents use infrastructures as a vital tool for forging collective identities and mobilizing political action. Fleshing out the materiality of trash and degraded labor, Fredericks illuminates the myriad ways waste can be a potent tool of urban control and rebellion.Trade Review"Garbage Citizenship isn’t solely about urban rubbish collection in Senegal’s capital. The book uses waste collector strikes and activism to explore broader effects of labour relations, citizen advocacy, neoliberal reform, and religious understandings of purity and pollution." -- Christine Ro * Environment and Urbanization *"A powerful account of the centrality of infrastructure, waste and labor for writing larger stories of urban transformation and citizenship in Dakar and beyond." -- Colin McFarlane * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Garbage Citizenship powerfully details. . . how the responsibility for waste has disproportionately fallen on the urban poor." -- Jacob Doherty * American Anthropologist *"An engaging study of garbage infrastructure in Senegal’s capital that foregrounds both the human labor it takes to keep the city clean and the ways that failures to do so become goads to political action." -- Dagna Rams * American Ethnologist *"Garbage Citizenship is a significant contribution and necessary reading for scholars of infrastructural governance and politics, labor geographies, African urban studies, and discard studies." -- Kathleen Stokes * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“Fredericks presents a dazzling excavation of the many strata of garbage politics. … Fredericks’s book gives us new tools for understanding how that power works.” -- Chris Tilly * American Journal of Sociology *“Fredericks goes beyond the conventional view of waste infrastructure as capital equipment by drawing from labor studies. She expands the literature on urban citizenship by conceptualizing Dakar’s working poor as waste infrastructure whose social responsibility, political actions, and religious ideology shaped state-society relations…. [S]he provides additional lens with which to study material politics in African cities.” -- Adebisi Alade * African Studies Quarterly *“The book offers a crucial example of innovative reworking of urban governance from the South. In an age of widespread public sector cutbacks across African (and indeed global) cities, and growing labour casualization in the global North…Garbage Citizenship offers an affirmative story of labour bargaining.” -- Tatiana A. Thieme * Development and Change *“Garbage Citizenship presents an in-depth analysis of the ways that garbage, and waste infrastructures, played a central role in the politics of urban change in Dakar. This text presents a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of infrastructures as a complex artefact of urban life, adding to the growing field of infrastructure studies…” -- Jenny McArthur * Urban Studies *"Garbage Citizenship introduce[s] the possibility of understanding political practices based on the material elements that make up the city—a huge and novel contribution…. [It] will be essential reading for those interested in urban politics and everyday life in the Global South for many years to come, just as the contentious politics of urban space will shape the contours of Africa well into the future.” -- Jeffrey W. Paller * Peace Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Trash Matters 1 1. Governing Disposability 27 2. Vital Infrastructures of Labor 60 3. Technologies of Community 97 4. The Piety of Refusal 123 Conclusion. Garbage Citizenship 149 Notes 155 References 171 Index 193
£22.79
Duke University Press Remaking New Orleans
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Remaking New Orleans challenge the uncritical acceptance of New Orleans-as-exceptional narratives, showing how they flatten the diversity, experience, and culture of the city's residents and obscure other possible understandings.Trade Review"Offering valuable insights into the history of the city and the oft-repeated musings of what makes New Orleans special or unique, Remaking New Orleans parses tourism, urban redevelopment, and the attendant myths, misconceptions, and impacts." -- Andru Okun * Antigravity *"In a crowded field of New Orleans–centered, post-Katrina scholarship, Remaking New Orleans—albeit ironically—is a true standout. ... It would make a fitting text for an upper-year undergraduate seminar or graduate-level course on, for example, cities and neoliberalism." -- Gregg Lightfoot * Journal of Southern History *“Adams and Sakakeeny’s Remaking New Orleans represents a remarkable collection of stories…. Topically, the volume enriches our historical geography of the city.” -- Eric Nost * Southeastern Geographer *“The editors Thomas Jessen Adams an Matt Sakakeeny and their contributors offer a welcome, convincing, and overdue rebuke of representations of New Orleans as a city lying outside broader contexts.... Remaking New Orleans succeeds in rendering an indictment against seeing this city as exceptional rather than exemplary.” -- J. Mark Souther * Journal of American History *“The authors present provocative questions.... This collection will be useful to scholars of urban history, cultural studies, and all those who are fascinated by New Orleans.” -- Ella Howard * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: What Lies beyond Histories of Exceptionalism and Cultures of Authenticity / Thomas Jessen Adams, Sue Mobley, and Mat Sakekeeny 1 Part One. Constructing Exceptional New Orleans 1. La Catrina: The Mexican Specter of New Orleans / Shannon Lee Dawdy 35 2. Charles Gayarré and the Imagining of an Exceptional City: The Literary Roots of the Creole City / Rien Fertel 55 3. Phony City: Under the Skin of Authenticity / Aaron Nyerges 72 Part Two. Producing Authentic New Orleans 4. "Things You'd Imagine Zulu Tribes to Do": The Zulu Parade in New Orleans Carnival / Felipe Smith 93 5. The Saga of the Junkyard Dog / Bryan Wagner 117 6. Local, Native, Creole, Black: Claiming Belonging, Producing Autochthony / Helen A. Regis 138 7. The Contradictions of the Film Welfare Economy, or, For the Love of Treme / Vicki Mayer, Heidi Schmalbach, and Toby Miller 162 Part Three. What Is New Orleans Identity? 8. "Queers, Fairies, and Ne'er-Do-Wells": Rethinking the Notion of a Sexually Liberated New Orleans / Alecia P. Long 179 9. Building Black Suburbs in New Orleans / Vern Baxter and Maria Casati 199 10. Refugee Pastoralism: Vietnamese American Self-Representation in New Orleans / Marguerite Nguyen 219 Part Four. Predictive City? 11. Boosting the Private Sector: Federal Aid and Downtown Development in the 1970s / Megan French-Marcelin 241 12. What's Left for New Orleans? The People's Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism / Cedric G. Johnson 261 13. Neoliberal Futures: Post-Katrina New Orleans, Volunteers, and the Ongoing Allure of Exceptionalism / Vincanne Adams 288 14. The Myth of Authenticity and Its Impact on Politics—in New Orleans and Beyond / Adolph Reed Jr. 307 References 327 Contributors 351 Index 355
£112.20
Duke University Press Remaking New Orleans
Book SynopsisThe contributors to Remaking New Orleans challenge the uncritical acceptance of New Orleans-as-exceptional narratives, showing how they flatten the diversity, experience, and culture of the city's residents and obscure other possible understandings.Trade Review"Offering valuable insights into the history of the city and the oft-repeated musings of what makes New Orleans special or unique, Remaking New Orleans parses tourism, urban redevelopment, and the attendant myths, misconceptions, and impacts." -- Andru Okun * Antigravity *"In a crowded field of New Orleans–centered, post-Katrina scholarship, Remaking New Orleans—albeit ironically—is a true standout. ... It would make a fitting text for an upper-year undergraduate seminar or graduate-level course on, for example, cities and neoliberalism." -- Gregg Lightfoot * Journal of Southern History *“Adams and Sakakeeny’s Remaking New Orleans represents a remarkable collection of stories…. Topically, the volume enriches our historical geography of the city.” -- Eric Nost * Southeastern Geographer *“The editors Thomas Jessen Adams an Matt Sakakeeny and their contributors offer a welcome, convincing, and overdue rebuke of representations of New Orleans as a city lying outside broader contexts.... Remaking New Orleans succeeds in rendering an indictment against seeing this city as exceptional rather than exemplary.” -- J. Mark Souther * Journal of American History *“The authors present provocative questions.... This collection will be useful to scholars of urban history, cultural studies, and all those who are fascinated by New Orleans.” -- Ella Howard * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: What Lies beyond Histories of Exceptionalism and Cultures of Authenticity / Thomas Jessen Adams, Sue Mobley, and Mat Sakekeeny 1 Part One. Constructing Exceptional New Orleans 1. La Catrina: The Mexican Specter of New Orleans / Shannon Lee Dawdy 35 2. Charles Gayarré and the Imagining of an Exceptional City: The Literary Roots of the Creole City / Rien Fertel 55 3. Phony City: Under the Skin of Authenticity / Aaron Nyerges 72 Part Two. Producing Authentic New Orleans 4. "Things You'd Imagine Zulu Tribes to Do": The Zulu Parade in New Orleans Carnival / Felipe Smith 93 5. The Saga of the Junkyard Dog / Bryan Wagner 117 6. Local, Native, Creole, Black: Claiming Belonging, Producing Autochthony / Helen A. Regis 138 7. The Contradictions of the Film Welfare Economy, or, For the Love of Treme / Vicki Mayer, Heidi Schmalbach, and Toby Miller 162 Part Three. What Is New Orleans Identity? 8. "Queers, Fairies, and Ne'er-Do-Wells": Rethinking the Notion of a Sexually Liberated New Orleans / Alecia P. Long 179 9. Building Black Suburbs in New Orleans / Vern Baxter and Maria Casati 199 10. Refugee Pastoralism: Vietnamese American Self-Representation in New Orleans / Marguerite Nguyen 219 Part Four. Predictive City? 11. Boosting the Private Sector: Federal Aid and Downtown Development in the 1970s / Megan French-Marcelin 241 12. What's Left for New Orleans? The People's Reconstruction and the Limits of Anarcho-Liberalism / Cedric G. Johnson 261 13. Neoliberal Futures: Post-Katrina New Orleans, Volunteers, and the Ongoing Allure of Exceptionalism / Vincanne Adams 288 14. The Myth of Authenticity and Its Impact on Politics—in New Orleans and Beyond / Adolph Reed Jr. 307 References 327 Contributors 351 Index 355
£27.90
Duke University Press Dance for Me When I Die
Book SynopsisOn the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Víctor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying to surrender. Widely known and respected throughout Buenos Aires''s shantytowns for his success as a thief, commitment to a code of honor, and generosity to his community, Frente became a Robin Hood--style legend who, in death, was believed to have the power to make bullets swerve and save gang members from shrapnel. In Dance for Me When I Die—first published in Argentina in 2004 and appearing here in English for the first time—Cristian Alarcón tells the story and legacy of Frente''s life and death in the context of the everyday experiences of love and survival, murder and addiction, and crime and courage of those living in the slums. Drawing on interviews with Frente''s friends, family, and ex-girlfriends, as well as with local thievesand drug dealersTrade Review“... Alarcón’s work appears to renew a long tradition of artists and writers from the center of Buenos Aires seeking insights about the nature of modern Argentina by exploring its ragged outskirts and their sordid but authentic forms of popular culture.... Much to think about indeed.” -- Brian Bockelman * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Javier Auyero and Gabriela Polit-Dueñas xi Acknowledgments xv Prologue 1 Chapter 1 5 Chapter 2 21 Chapter 3 37 Chapter 4 45 Chapter 5 55 Chapter 6 73 Chapter 7 85 Chapter 8 101 Chapter 9 115 Epilogue 127
£84.15
Duke University Press The Archive of Loss
Book SynopsisMaura Finkelstein examines what it means for textile mill workers in Mumbai—who are assumed to not exist—to live during a period of deindustrialization, showing how mills and workers' bodies constitute an archive of Mumbai's history that challenge common thinking about the city's past, present, and future.Trade Review"Finkelstein’s work is very refreshing. . . . The data involved is rich, and the theoretical framings and arguments very persuasive." -- Sinead D'Silva * LSE Review of Books *"Tackling the question of power, of the structure of domination in post-colony, and of the lives lived among the imperial debris makes The Archive of Loss an engaging reading for those willing to advance the project started by Maura Finkelstein and to approach ethnographically both the official records and the alternative archives. . . . The book offers a detailed description of decay and ruination as a prolonged process that follows its own logic and unfolds according to its own rules, supporting a ghostly presence of the past that refuses to die down." -- Natalia Kovalyova * Anthropology Book Forum *“In each chapter-archive, Finkelstein urges the reader to reflect on how some forms of work in contemporary capitalist society are rendered meaningless in order to sustain others.... Researchers studying the history of Mumbai’s textile mills, the processes of deindustrialization, storytelling, and archiving, and affect theory will find value in engaging with this book.” -- Saumya Pandey * Society for the Anthropology of Work *“The conceptual framing of the book is refreshingly original, the prose elegant and the structure convincing.... By carefully spelling out phenomena that do not fit into established narratives, the book illuminates the blind spot of dominant explanations.” -- Pablo Holwitt * South Asia *“The significance of this powerful book goes beyond being an ethnography of the urban or the spatial.... Archives of Loss is a must-read for understanding urban transition.” -- Sarasij Majumder * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Maura Finkelstein’s book is a wonderful ethnographic study.... [The Archive of Loss] is an important addition to studies of urban workers and the textile industry and is important for anthropology, ethnography, human geography, urban history and labour studies.” -- Vicki Crinis * Asian Studies Review *“The Archive of Loss is an exemplary ethnography of a world in transition, caught as it is between an industrial past and post-industrial present, and the unexpected openings—material, social, political—of seeing this world otherwise.” -- Waqas H. Butt * Anthropological Quarterly *“Maura Finkelstein’s The Archive of Loss is a finely theorized ethnographic archive of what she calls lively ruination that pushes methodological boundaries in novel ways.” -- Preeti Sampat * American Ethnologist *“Archive of Loss is fascinating. It is an original, remarkable, and admirable account of other sides of the glossy coins of Mumbai as a post-industrial city aiming to reach world-class status (whatever that may mean). It is moreover a convincing ‘first-hand’ account of the working and social lives of those Mumbaikars who live somewhere in the shadows of ‘development.’” -- Hans Schenk * IIAS Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii A Note on Intimate Geographies xi Introduction: The Archive of Industrial Debris 1 1. The Archive of the Mill 29 2. The Archive of the Worker 57 3. The Archive of the Chawl 85 4. The Archive of the Strike 117 5. The Archive of the Fire 149 Epilogue: The Archive of Futures Lost 181 Notes 193 References 225 Index 247
£76.50
Duke University Press Dance for Me When I Die
Book SynopsisOn the morning of February 6, 1999, Buenos Aires police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Víctor Manuel Vital, better known as Frente, while he was unarmed, hiding under a table, and trying to surrender. Widely known and respected throughout Buenos Aires''s shantytowns for his success as a thief, commitment to a code of honor, and generosity to his community, Frente became a Robin Hood--style legend who, in death, was believed to have the power to make bullets swerve and save gang members from shrapnel. In Dance for Me When I Die—first published in Argentina in 2004 and appearing here in English for the first time—Cristian Alarcón tells the story and legacy of Frente''s life and death in the context of the everyday experiences of love and survival, murder and addiction, and crime and courage of those living in the slums. Drawing on interviews with Frente''s friends, family, and ex-girlfriends, as well as with local thievesand drug dealersTrade Review“... Alarcón’s work appears to renew a long tradition of artists and writers from the center of Buenos Aires seeking insights about the nature of modern Argentina by exploring its ragged outskirts and their sordid but authentic forms of popular culture.... Much to think about indeed.” -- Brian Bockelman * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsForeword / Javier Auyero and Gabriela Polit-Dueñas xi Acknowledgments xv Prologue 1 Chapter 1 5 Chapter 2 21 Chapter 3 37 Chapter 4 45 Chapter 5 55 Chapter 6 73 Chapter 7 85 Chapter 8 101 Chapter 9 115 Epilogue 127
£21.59
Duke University Press The Archive of Loss
Book SynopsisMaura Finkelstein examines what it means for textile mill workers in Mumbai—who are assumed to not exist—to live during a period of deindustrialization, showing how mills and workers' bodies constitute an archive of Mumbai's history that challenge common thinking about the city's past, present, and future.Trade Review"Finkelstein’s work is very refreshing. . . . The data involved is rich, and the theoretical framings and arguments very persuasive." -- Sinead D'Silva * LSE Review of Books *"Tackling the question of power, of the structure of domination in post-colony, and of the lives lived among the imperial debris makes The Archive of Loss an engaging reading for those willing to advance the project started by Maura Finkelstein and to approach ethnographically both the official records and the alternative archives. . . . The book offers a detailed description of decay and ruination as a prolonged process that follows its own logic and unfolds according to its own rules, supporting a ghostly presence of the past that refuses to die down." -- Natalia Kovalyova * Anthropology Book Forum *“In each chapter-archive, Finkelstein urges the reader to reflect on how some forms of work in contemporary capitalist society are rendered meaningless in order to sustain others.... Researchers studying the history of Mumbai’s textile mills, the processes of deindustrialization, storytelling, and archiving, and affect theory will find value in engaging with this book.” -- Saumya Pandey * Society for the Anthropology of Work *“The conceptual framing of the book is refreshingly original, the prose elegant and the structure convincing.... By carefully spelling out phenomena that do not fit into established narratives, the book illuminates the blind spot of dominant explanations.” -- Pablo Holwitt * South Asia *“The significance of this powerful book goes beyond being an ethnography of the urban or the spatial.... Archives of Loss is a must-read for understanding urban transition.” -- Sarasij Majumder * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Maura Finkelstein’s book is a wonderful ethnographic study.... [The Archive of Loss] is an important addition to studies of urban workers and the textile industry and is important for anthropology, ethnography, human geography, urban history and labour studies.” -- Vicki Crinis * Asian Studies Review *“The Archive of Loss is an exemplary ethnography of a world in transition, caught as it is between an industrial past and post-industrial present, and the unexpected openings—material, social, political—of seeing this world otherwise.” -- Waqas H. Butt * Anthropological Quarterly *“Maura Finkelstein’s The Archive of Loss is a finely theorized ethnographic archive of what she calls lively ruination that pushes methodological boundaries in novel ways.” -- Preeti Sampat * American Ethnologist *“Archive of Loss is fascinating. It is an original, remarkable, and admirable account of other sides of the glossy coins of Mumbai as a post-industrial city aiming to reach world-class status (whatever that may mean). It is moreover a convincing ‘first-hand’ account of the working and social lives of those Mumbaikars who live somewhere in the shadows of ‘development.’” -- Hans Schenk * IIAS Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii A Note on Intimate Geographies xi Introduction: The Archive of Industrial Debris 1 1. The Archive of the Mill 29 2. The Archive of the Worker 57 3. The Archive of the Chawl 85 4. The Archive of the Strike 117 5. The Archive of the Fire 149 Epilogue: The Archive of Futures Lost 181 Notes 193 References 225 Index 247
£25.19
Duke University Press Concrete Dreams
Book SynopsisNicholas D'Avella offers an ethnographic reflection on the value of buildings in post-crisis Buenos Aires, showing how everyday practices transform buildings into politically, economically, and socially consequential objects, and arguing that such local forms of value and practice suggest possibilities for building better futures.Trade Review“Concrete Dreams is a beautifully written ethnography that focuses on how the specific everyday practices of lay investors, real estate analysts, and architects produce divergent forms of value in the volatile political and economic landscape of recent Argentine history. The ethnographic narratives show exactly how ‘buildings’ emerge as partially connected conceptual and concrete entities that hold value as investments, as objects of design, and as homes. The power of the analysis lies in the combination of a deep understanding of dominant economic modes of valuation with a sensitivity to the fragile relational spaces where alternative possibilities are kept alive.” -- Penny Harvey, University of Manchester“Nicholas D’Avella has managed to take a topic central to the historical sweep of Argentine political economy and written an intimate, engaging portrait of quotidian life amid economic uncertainty. He makes real estate markets and municipal zoning understandable at the macro-scale with which they crash economies and at the micro-scale that causes people to strap money to their bodies. Ambitious and weighty, subtle and intimate, Concrete Dreams is an exceptional urban ethnography.” -- Kregg Hetherington, editor of * Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene *“...Concrete Dreams is a welcome contribution to the study of contemporary urban transformation in Latin America.... At a time when Buenos Aires is confronting the growth of high-rise luxury developments and mega real estate projects, D’Avella offers a glimmer of hope amid the threats to green spaces, heritage and barrio life.” -- Cecilia Dinardi * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“The book develops an innovative approach to comprehending broad historical shifts in political economy from an ethnographic perspective. D’Avella’s writing is eloquent and engaging.... [Concrete Dreams] is definitely a rewarding read for a broad interdisciplinary social science audience.” -- Virág Molnár * American Journal of Sociology *“Concrete Dreams is an engaging and rigorous ethnographic exploration of built environments within post-crisis Buenos Aires.... Any reader ... who wishes to know more about the built environments of Buenos Aires, the people in them, and the history of them, would do well to pick it up.” -- Jeremy R. Grossman * Journal of Cultural Economy *“Taking an anthropological approach to everyday life in post-crisis Buenos Aires, Concrete Dreams does not reduce practices to a market-centered matrix.... D’Avella’s book allows us to avoid oversimplifying ways of living in the city.” -- Gonzalo Saavedra * American Anthropologist *“[Concrete Dreams] one of the best and most nuanced studies on Buenos Aires, Argentina, and urban Latin America.... [D’Avella’s] examination of the prelude and aftermath of the 2001 crisis is dexterous, insightful, and relevant in cultural, political economy, and affective terms.” -- Juan M. del Nido * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“D’Avella brings to life the everyday experiences of residents of single-floor homes as high-rise buildings blocked the sun, casting shadows over urban gardens.” -- Denisa Jashari * Latin American Research Review *
£98.60
Duke University Press Under Construction
Book SynopsisDaniel Mains explores the intersection of infrastructural development and governance in contemporary Ethiopia by examining the conflicts surrounding the construction of specific infrastructural technologies and how that construction impacts the daily lives of Ethiopians.Trade Review“Based on years of ethnographic research, Under Construction is a magnificent and thorough exposition that describes the ambivalence and hope invested in construction projects in Ethiopia. Construction, Daniel Mains demonstrates, is a vital location at which relationships between states and citizens are grounded. While they are powerful gatherings of technology and finance, construction projects are also precarious and full of danger. In exploring the tensions that are intrinsic to construction projects, Mains effortlessly brings together theorizations of historical materialism, vital materialism, and affect theory to produce a dazzling and clear account of how construction is incrementally and yet fundamentally transforming the political landscape of cities of the global South.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *“Under Construction stages urgent interventions into development and governance, citizen and state, Afro-optimism and neoliberal pessimism in order to depict the complexities of infrastructure in Africa. Daniel Mains's work makes clear that the relationships between infrastructure, state, labor, and modernity are variable and contingent—sometimes smooth, often sticky and fraught—while making a compelling case for Ethiopia as a rich site for theoretical and ethnographic attention.” -- Charles Piot, author of * The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles *"This study by Mains should be accepted with gratitude, and welcomed as a huge contribution to Ethiopian studies of urban development." -- Fasika Gedif * African Studies Quarterly *"Under Construction makes an important contribution not only to the field of the anthropology of development but also to urban development, at a time when many studies in Ethiopia have been placing more emphasis on rural communities. Daniel Mains, while basing his empirical evidence on the selected urban projects which appear to be perpetually under construction, shows that the process of construction has changed the relationship between citizens and the state, and not always for the better." -- Gemechu Admassu Abeshu * African Studies Review *"The book represents an important contribution to the field of infrastructure within anthropology and beyond. . . . Under Construction represents a seminal contribution to this field of study." -- Felipe Fernandez * Anthropologica *“Offering a much-needed ethnographic investigation into the lives, livelihoods and labour relations that inhabit construction work in contemporary urban Africa, Under Construction contributes significantly to current debates and scholarship in urban studies, infrastructure, international development, and African Studies.” -- Pauline Destrée * Anthropological Notebooks *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Foundations for Development: Infrastructure, the State, and Construction 1 1. Constructing a Renaissance: Hydropower and the Temporal Politics of Development 29 2. Asphalt Roads, Regulating Infrastructures, and Improvised Lives 58 3. Feeling Change through Dirt and Water: The Affective Politics of Urban Development of Jimma, 2009–2015 92 4. Governing the Bajaj: States, Markets, and Multiple Materialisms 121 5. What Can a Stone Do? Cobblestone Roads, Governance, and Labor 151 Conclusion. The Time of Construction 181 Notes 193 References 203 Index 217
£90.10
Duke University Press The Creative Underclass
Book SynopsisAs an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island. Along with its positive impact, New Urban Arts, under his leadership, became entangled in Providence''s urban renewal efforts that harmed the very youth it served. As in many deindustrialized cities, Providence''s leaders viewed arts, culture, and creativity as a means to drive property development and attract young, educated, and affluent white people, such as Denmead, to economically and culturally kick-start the city. In The Creative Underclass, Denmead critically examines how New Urban Arts and similar organizations can become enmeshed in circumstances where young people, including himself, become visible once the city can leverage their creativity to benefit economic revitalization and gentrification. He points to the creative cultural practices that young people of color from low-Trade Review“Tyler Denmead offers a far-reaching look into the complexities of creative communities, implicating factors involving labor, economics, race, the arts, education, urban planning, and politics, all while joyfully, lovingly, and thoughtfully describing stories from young people's lives. Denmead describes these multiple perspectives and what young people taught him and his change of perception with humility. His book's credibility and power are even more compelling because of his capacity to comprehend and critique an institution he himself constructed. I'm in awe of all the intricacies and implications that Denmead has revealed.” -- Rebekah Modrak, author of * Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice *"Since the early 2000s we have regarded the creative class as those with the greatest access to capital, technology, and robust economic environments. Tyler Denmead reveals a portion of the creative class that is dynamic and generative and forgotten—low-income youth in underserved communities. This is a must-read for reimagining the creative talents of today's urban youth." -- Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin–Madison"[This] book is written in a personal, engaging style and peppered with conversations between Denmead and the youth who offer a sense of hope through their clever, observant and deeply cognizant understandings of structural injustice. . . . It is important reading for those working with youth, in urban centers and within the context of the 'creative industry.'" -- Darlene E. Clover * International Review of Education *“For those who are interested in cultural policy and youth programmes, this book is an important awakening for those who uncritically accept the discourse of creativity as a force for good. This study destabilizes the taken-for-granted assumption about arts activities as ‘positive activities’ through which young people can ‘better themselves’. This book is a timely reminder that youth development programmes do not solve economic problems.” -- Frances Howard * Cultural Sociology *“The Creative Underclass is a compelling example of how we can write about recent educational history without a detachment from the struggles of an author’s conscience…. For historians of education this book reminds us of the tensions and contradictions of philanthropic work across the past two centuries.” -- Lottie Hoare * History of Education *"The relationship between gentrification and culture is a fraught and complicated one, and there is no easy path. But through engaging with the creative strategies of the youth that Denmead profiles in The Creative Underclass, we might begin to envision a future city that enables the creativity of all, not ‘creativity’ as a luxury consumer product. This volume highlights the lived experiences of youth living through the challenges of gentrification. Planners and policymakers may find it to be an important corollary to more revenue-oriented visions of the ‘creative city’, exposing a deep rift between the experiences of Florida’s ‘creative class’ and Denmead’s ‘creative underclass’. Those in the education sector, too, will find its exploration of inequality valuable, especially in considering the ways that even well-meaning arts programmes can replicate systems of race- and class-based inequalities in the face of gentrification." -- Kevin Ritter * LSE Review of Books *“The Creative Underclass is appropriate reading for undergraduate courses in Sociology, Geography, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, and Political Science.... The book is well organized and easy to follow.” -- Evelyn Ravuri * Journal of Urban Affairs *“Within the literature on urban renewal and gentrification, Denmead’s contribution is important for the personal dimension of his analysis as well as for its consideration of how creativity, a perceived innately human ability, can be channeled and managed by economic elites to serve the end goal of gentrification.” -- Arthur Ivan Bravo * Exertions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgment ix Introduction 1 1. Troublemaking 30 2. The Hot Mess 45 3. Chillaxing 76 4. Why the Creative Underclass Doesn't Get Creative-Class Jobs 96 5. Autoethnography of a "Gentrifying Force" 118 6. "Is This Really What White People Do" in the Creative Capital? 133 Conclusion 155 Notes 173 Biography 185 Index 197
£86.70
Duke University Press Concrete Dreams
Book SynopsisNicholas D'Avella offers an ethnographic reflection on the value of buildings in post-crisis Buenos Aires, showing how everyday practices transform buildings into politically, economically, and socially consequential objects, and arguing that such local forms of value and practice suggest possibilities for building better futures.Trade Review“Concrete Dreams is a beautifully written ethnography that focuses on how the specific everyday practices of lay investors, real estate analysts, and architects produce divergent forms of value in the volatile political and economic landscape of recent Argentine history. The ethnographic narratives show exactly how ‘buildings’ emerge as partially connected conceptual and concrete entities that hold value as investments, as objects of design, and as homes. The power of the analysis lies in the combination of a deep understanding of dominant economic modes of valuation with a sensitivity to the fragile relational spaces where alternative possibilities are kept alive.” -- Penny Harvey, University of Manchester“Nicholas D’Avella has managed to take a topic central to the historical sweep of Argentine political economy and written an intimate, engaging portrait of quotidian life amid economic uncertainty. He makes real estate markets and municipal zoning understandable at the macro-scale with which they crash economies and at the micro-scale that causes people to strap money to their bodies. Ambitious and weighty, subtle and intimate, Concrete Dreams is an exceptional urban ethnography.” -- Kregg Hetherington, editor of * Infrastructure, Environment, and Life in the Anthropocene *“...Concrete Dreams is a welcome contribution to the study of contemporary urban transformation in Latin America.... At a time when Buenos Aires is confronting the growth of high-rise luxury developments and mega real estate projects, D’Avella offers a glimmer of hope amid the threats to green spaces, heritage and barrio life.” -- Cecilia Dinardi * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“The book develops an innovative approach to comprehending broad historical shifts in political economy from an ethnographic perspective. D’Avella’s writing is eloquent and engaging.... [Concrete Dreams] is definitely a rewarding read for a broad interdisciplinary social science audience.” -- Virág Molnár * American Journal of Sociology *“Concrete Dreams is an engaging and rigorous ethnographic exploration of built environments within post-crisis Buenos Aires.... Any reader ... who wishes to know more about the built environments of Buenos Aires, the people in them, and the history of them, would do well to pick it up.” -- Jeremy R. Grossman * Journal of Cultural Economy *“Taking an anthropological approach to everyday life in post-crisis Buenos Aires, Concrete Dreams does not reduce practices to a market-centered matrix.... D’Avella’s book allows us to avoid oversimplifying ways of living in the city.” -- Gonzalo Saavedra * American Anthropologist *“[Concrete Dreams] one of the best and most nuanced studies on Buenos Aires, Argentina, and urban Latin America.... [D’Avella’s] examination of the prelude and aftermath of the 2001 crisis is dexterous, insightful, and relevant in cultural, political economy, and affective terms.” -- Juan M. del Nido * Bulletin of Latin American Research *“D’Avella brings to life the everyday experiences of residents of single-floor homes as high-rise buildings blocked the sun, casting shadows over urban gardens.” -- Denisa Jashari * Latin American Research Review *
£25.19
Duke University Press The Creative Underclass
Book SynopsisTyler Denmead critically examines his role as the founder of New Urban Artsa nonprofit arts program for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Islandand how despite its success, it unintentionally contributed to Providence's urban renewal efforts, gentrification, and the displacement of people of color.Trade Review“Tyler Denmead offers a far-reaching look into the complexities of creative communities, implicating factors involving labor, economics, race, the arts, education, urban planning, and politics, all while joyfully, lovingly, and thoughtfully describing stories from young people's lives. Denmead describes these multiple perspectives and what young people taught him and his change of perception with humility. His book's credibility and power are even more compelling because of his capacity to comprehend and critique an institution he himself constructed. I'm in awe of all the intricacies and implications that Denmead has revealed.” -- Rebekah Modrak, author of * Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice *"Since the early 2000s we have regarded the creative class as those with the greatest access to capital, technology, and robust economic environments. Tyler Denmead reveals a portion of the creative class that is dynamic and generative and forgotten—low-income youth in underserved communities. This is a must-read for reimagining the creative talents of today's urban youth." -- Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin–Madison"[This] book is written in a personal, engaging style and peppered with conversations between Denmead and the youth who offer a sense of hope through their clever, observant and deeply cognizant understandings of structural injustice. . . . It is important reading for those working with youth, in urban centers and within the context of the 'creative industry.'" -- Darlene E. Clover * International Review of Education *“For those who are interested in cultural policy and youth programmes, this book is an important awakening for those who uncritically accept the discourse of creativity as a force for good. This study destabilizes the taken-for-granted assumption about arts activities as ‘positive activities’ through which young people can ‘better themselves’. This book is a timely reminder that youth development programmes do not solve economic problems.” -- Frances Howard * Cultural Sociology *“The Creative Underclass is a compelling example of how we can write about recent educational history without a detachment from the struggles of an author’s conscience…. For historians of education this book reminds us of the tensions and contradictions of philanthropic work across the past two centuries.” -- Lottie Hoare * History of Education *"The relationship between gentrification and culture is a fraught and complicated one, and there is no easy path. But through engaging with the creative strategies of the youth that Denmead profiles in The Creative Underclass, we might begin to envision a future city that enables the creativity of all, not ‘creativity’ as a luxury consumer product. This volume highlights the lived experiences of youth living through the challenges of gentrification. Planners and policymakers may find it to be an important corollary to more revenue-oriented visions of the ‘creative city’, exposing a deep rift between the experiences of Florida’s ‘creative class’ and Denmead’s ‘creative underclass’. Those in the education sector, too, will find its exploration of inequality valuable, especially in considering the ways that even well-meaning arts programmes can replicate systems of race- and class-based inequalities in the face of gentrification." -- Kevin Ritter * LSE Review of Books *“The Creative Underclass is appropriate reading for undergraduate courses in Sociology, Geography, Urban Planning, Urban Studies, and Political Science.... The book is well organized and easy to follow.” -- Evelyn Ravuri * Journal of Urban Affairs *“Within the literature on urban renewal and gentrification, Denmead’s contribution is important for the personal dimension of his analysis as well as for its consideration of how creativity, a perceived innately human ability, can be channeled and managed by economic elites to serve the end goal of gentrification.” -- Arthur Ivan Bravo * Exertions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgment ix Introduction 1 1. Troublemaking 30 2. The Hot Mess 45 3. Chillaxing 76 4. Why the Creative Underclass Doesn't Get Creative-Class Jobs 96 5. Autoethnography of a "Gentrifying Force" 118 6. "Is This Really What White People Do" in the Creative Capital? 133 Conclusion 155 Notes 173 Biography 185 Index 197
£22.79
Duke University Press Futureproof
Book SynopsisSecurity is a defining characteristic of our age and the driving force behind the management of collective political, economic, and social life. Directed at safeguarding society against future peril, security is often thought of as the hard infrastructures and invisible technologies assumed to deliver it: walls, turnstiles, CCTV cameras, digital encryption, and the like. The contributors to Futureproof redirect this focus, showing how security is a sensory domain shaped by affect and image as much as rules and rationalities. They examine security as it is lived and felt in domains as varied as real estate listings, active-shooter drills, border crossings, landslide maps, gang graffiti, and museum exhibits to theorize how security regimes are expressed through aesthetic forms. Taking a global perspective with studies ranging from Jamaica to Jakarta and Colombia to the U.S.-Mexico border, Futureproof expands our understanding of the security practices, infrastructures, and technologies that pervade everyday life. Contributors. Victoria Bernal, Jon Horne Carter, Alexandra Demshock, Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores, Didier Fassin, D. Asher Ghertner, Daniel M. Goldstein, Rachel Hall, Rivke Jaffe, Ieva Jusionyte, Catherine Lutz, Alejandra Leal Martinez, Hudson McFann, Limor Samimian-Darash, AbdouMaliq Simone, Austin ZeidermanTrade Review“This provocative book reframes the issue of security, considering it at the intersection of aesthetics and politics. It opens new possibilities of critique and of understanding, using ethnographies to expose several dimensions of our everydayness that normalize fear, risk, violence, and the invisibilization of growing inequalities. It will become mandatory reading for all interested in criticizing contemporary formations of power and the ways in which violence and security are lived and felt in the everyday.” -- Teresa P. R. Caldeira, author of * City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo *“This volume offers a critical analysis of ‘security’ as a mode of power and form of governance by examining its aesthetic dimensions. The authors explore the institutions and discourses that sell protection from almost every aspect of everyday life. By focusing on the political and social aesthetics of how security claims and threats control human lives, they argue that it is these aesthetic manipulations that provide an affective infrastructure and set of practices that manage human life. An important addition to the anthropology of security, Futureproof provides a provocative glimpse into the future.” -- Setha Low, coeditor of * Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control *"The development of the concept of security as an aesthetic and sensory experience is an interesting line of research, and the broad sample of cases evaluated in Futureproof was well chosen. This is a reference text I would recommend for security practitioners as well as advanced students and scholars of security and strategic theories. Far from the typical security text, there are philosophical elements and advanced concepts that lend more to a scholar’s eye, but this text will prove educational for anyone with an interest in the staging and portrayal of security." -- Courteney J. O’Connor * LSE Review of Books *"This is a worthy and relevant contribution to security studies, a field which will likely become even more prominent in the post–COVID-19 world." -- R. P. Lorenzo * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword / Catherine Lutz vii Introduction. Security Aesthetics of and beyond the Biopolitical / D. Asher Ghertner, Hudson McFann, and Daniel M. Goldstein 1 1. The Aesthetics of Cyber Insecurity: Displaying the Digital in Three American Museum Exhibits / Victoria Bernal 33 2. Danger Signs: The Aesthetics of Insecurity in Bogotá / Austin Zeiderman 63 3. "We All Have the Same Red Blood": Security Aesthetics and Rescue Ethics on the Arizona-Sonora Border / Ieva Jusionyte 87 4. Fugitive Horizons and the Arts of Security in Honduras / Jon Horne Carter 114 5. Security Aesthetics and Political Community Formation in Kingston, Jamaica / Rivke Jaffe 134 6. Staging Safety in Brooklyn's Real Estate / Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores and Alexandra Demshock 156 7. Expecting the Worst: Active-Shooter Scenario Play in American Schools / Rachel Hall 175 8. H5N1 and the Aesthetics of Biosecurity: From Danger to Risk / Limor Samimian-Darash 200 9. Securing "Standby" and Urban Space Making in Jakarta: Intensities in Search of Forms / AbdouMaliq Simone 225 10. Securing the Street: Urban Renewal and the Fight against "Informality" in Mexico City / Alejandra Leal Martínez 245 Afterword. The Age of Security / Didier Fassin 271 Acknowledgments 277 Contributors 279 Index 285
£25.19
Duke University Press Youth Power in Precarious Times
Book SynopsisMelissa Brough explores how youth-centered forms of civic and cultural engagement in Medellín, Colombia, create networks of change that have the possibility to transform and democratize cities around the world.Trade Review“In few world cities do creative vision and the long shadow of brutal institutionalized violence intersect more powerfully than in Medellín, Colombia. What would it mean to respond to that city's challenges using ‘participation’ as the guiding principle? Melissa Brough's rich and clear-sighted study of local participation within citizens' media, participatory budgeting, hip-hop collectives, and urban policy making is a major advance in our understanding of Latin America's distinctive path back towards democracy.” -- Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics“[Youth Power in Precarious Times] presents an interesting case study mostly unknown by the academia outside the Global South, providing a significant contribution to the debate around participation, youth, and marginalized populations, while combining a variety of academic fields. . . . One of the book’s obvious merits lies in its resistance to binary thinking by proposing a conceptual frame that provides alternative readings about a socially complex reality.” -- José Alberto Simões * International Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. From Participation to Polycultural Civics 16 2. Digitizing the Tools of Engagement 59 3. "We Think about the City Differently" 99 4. "Medellín, Governable and Participatory 145 5. Polycultural Civics in the Digital Age 189 Notes 234 Bibliography 276 Index 312
£86.70
Duke University Press Youth Power in Precarious Times
Book SynopsisMelissa Brough explores how youth-centered forms of civic and cultural engagement in Medellín, Colombia, create networks of change that have the possibility to transform and democratize cities around the world.Trade Review“In few world cities do creative vision and the long shadow of brutal institutionalized violence intersect more powerfully than in Medellín, Colombia. What would it mean to respond to that city's challenges using ‘participation’ as the guiding principle? Melissa Brough's rich and clear-sighted study of local participation within citizens' media, participatory budgeting, hip-hop collectives, and urban policy making is a major advance in our understanding of Latin America's distinctive path back towards democracy.” -- Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics“[Youth Power in Precarious Times] presents an interesting case study mostly unknown by the academia outside the Global South, providing a significant contribution to the debate around participation, youth, and marginalized populations, while combining a variety of academic fields. . . . One of the book’s obvious merits lies in its resistance to binary thinking by proposing a conceptual frame that provides alternative readings about a socially complex reality.” -- José Alberto Simões * International Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. From Participation to Polycultural Civics 16 2. Digitizing the Tools of Engagement 59 3. "We Think about the City Differently" 99 4. "Medellín, Governable and Participatory 145 5. Polycultural Civics in the Digital Age 189 Notes 234 Bibliography 276 Index 312
£22.79
Duke University Press Thinking Like a Climate
Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics.Trade Review“What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a ‘form of thought’—a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *“We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to ‘think like a climate,’ building connections rather than boundaries.” -- Gökçe Günel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi *“In this innovative ethnographic study, Hannah Knox takes the reader on a journey through the city of Manchester, UK, telling the story of climate change through the lives of those who model, govern, and enact it.... Researchers interested in environmental politics...will find great value in reading this book.” -- Danial H. Naqvi * Environmental Politics *“Thinking Like a Climate has a sense of urgency.... The book shows the vitality of new anthropological and geographical analyses of climate action in practice and their creativity in a collective effort to take seriously the material conditions of climate action.” -- Vanesa Castán Broto * AAG Review of Books *“One of the most important contributions of [Thinking Like a Climate] is Knox’s position as an engaged researcher who is implicated in Manchester’s contextually specific climate dynamics. . . . Knox argues that addressing the climate crisis requires a fundamental recalibration of how we think about and act upon the world." -- Andrew Karvonen * LSE Review of Books *“Thinking Like A Climate convincingly demonstrates why an anthropological approach is essential to the study of climate change. Methodologically, Knox has produced a compelling case that to understand climate change as a material-discursive phenomenon, the methods of ethnography are not only useful but crucial.” -- Sydney Giacalone * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1 Part I. Contact Zones Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35 1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40 How the Climate Takes Shape 63 2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67 Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89 3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95 When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122 4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127 Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156 5. Stuck in Strategies 159 Part II. Rematerializing Politics 6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179 7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205 8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234 Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259 Notes 273 References 285 Index 305
£75.65
Duke University Press The Globally Familiar
Book SynopsisEthiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan examines how the young men of Delhi's hip hop scene construct themselves on- and off-line and how digital platforms offer these young men the means to reimagine themselves and their city through hip hop.Trade Review“A rich narrative of urban transformation told from the perspectives of young men on the margins of Delhi. This lucid ethnography illuminates how hip hop and digital media entangle cultural worlds and redefine classed masculinity. A riveting read with cross-disciplinary appeal, The Globally Familiar opens new perspectives about urbanity from below.” -- Radha S. Hegde, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University“Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan has produced a wonderfully rich, nuanced narrative of Delhi's hip hop scene. Engaging with young men from India, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, and Nepal, The Globally Familiar is not only brilliantly and elegantly theorized but methodologically innovative and sophisticated. Combining the tradition of ‘hiphopography’ with digital production and participation, Dattatreyan's narrative not only bristles with insights about youth cultural production vis-à-vis race, masculinity, capitalism, and the global but also pushes global hip hop studies to the next level by demonstrating the power of sustained commitment to both the culture and those who produce it. The Globally Familiar is a rare gem.” -- H. Samy Alim, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles“The Globally Familiar convincingly argues that migrant working class young men’s performance of hip hop’s sonic, visual and kinemic aesthetics enables them to reimagine and remake the self and the city.... The book makes a stunning contribution to the burgeoning research on digital cultures, globalization, South Asian urban neighbourhoods and masculinity.” -- Anjali Gera Roy * Popular Music *“I am thrilled to learn from and teach this ethnography. With The Globally Familiar, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan has blown up the stage of the normative anthropological and cultural studies understanding of popular culture, India, urban aesthetics, subaltern life, global connections, and hip-hop.” -- Stanley Thangaraj * Current Anthropology *“The Delhi that emerges from Dattatreyan’s richly textured writing is like a contact zone or a borderland; a contested, unequal, but not unimaginable or unimaginative urban space.... A concept like the globally familiar allows for a complex understanding of how globalization transforms our cities from below.” -- Jaspal Naveel Singh * AAG Review of Books *“In The Globally Familiar, Gabriel Dattatreyan presents an intimate, complex, and ultimately hopeful ethnography of the hip hop scene in Delhi, India, capturing how hip hop’s meaning comes to be contested in its global circulation and uptake by young men in Delhi.” -- Amanda Weidman * Journal of Anthropological Research *“The Globally Familiar is an important work in providing a fully intersectional ethnography of the hip hop subculture in Delhi. This book has broad implications for helping us understand global hip hop outside of the West, as well as the globality of cultural activity in India outside of the elite.” -- Sara Hakeem Grewal * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Friendship and Romance 21 2. The Materially Familiar 49 3. Labor and Work 79 4. Hip Hop Ideologies 107 5. Urban Development 135 6. Race and Place 163 Epilogue 191 Notes 205 Bibliography 229 Index 241
£98.60
Duke University Press Visions of Beirut
Book SynopsisHatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut, showing how images can be used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power.Trade Review“Hatim El-Hibri weaves a narrative that articulates concealment and infrastructure onto a conceptual terrain that transcends the empirical context of Lebanon. This engaging, groundbreaking, and indispensable book makes a truly meaningful and influential intervention in global media studies, Middle East studies, and urban studies.” -- Marwan M. Kraidy, author of * The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World *“Visions of Beirut is a compelling work of careful analysis and creative connections that proposes a historically informed set of powerful readings about the transformations of Beirut's public(s) and spaces. Hatim El-Hibri masterfully deconstructs outmoded assumptions about Lebanon's political economy and societies, unravelling instead the everyday visual infrastructures that sustain and reproduce forces such as sectarianism and financialization. The outcome is an important contribution that implores us to think critically about how image, its mediation, and infrastructures are remaking cities in today's world.” -- Mona Fawaz, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the American University of Beirut“Visions of Beirut comes at a crucial moment for the city and for the country, coinciding with the most stringent economic crisis Lebanon has ever faced and in the aftermath of one of the largest nonnuclear explosions ever recorded.... The recent events confirm, once again, El-Hibri’s treatise and the validity of its theoretical framework." -- Aya Jazaierly * Information & Culture *“Visions of Beirut offers a lot to its readers. It will be of great interest to scholars of global media, Middle Eastern studies, and urban studies and will make an excellent addition to many graduate-level syllabi.” -- Blake Atwood * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsNote on Translation and Transliteration vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Social Life of Maps of Beirut 21 2. Images of Before/After in the Economy of Postwar Construction 64 3. Concealment, Liveness, and Al Manar TV 105 4. The Open Secret of Concealment at the Mleeta Museum 144 Conclusion 178 Notes 183 References 217 Index 247
£72.25
Duke University Press Bombay Brokers
Book SynopsisBombay Brokers collect thirty-six character profiles of men and women whose knowledge and laborwhich is often seen as morally suspectare essential for navigating everyday life in Bombay, one of the world's most complex, dynamic, and populous cities.Trade Review“Lisa Björkman's collection Bombay Brokers offers a brilliantly multivocal account of the many worlds of practical negotiation and embodied expertise that animate urban life in one of India's most dynamic, polarized cities. Just as important, it is a remarkable work of collaborative ethnography that forges a distinctive methodological strategy through which to illuminate the crises and contradictions of contemporary urbanism in Bombay and beyond.” -- Neil Brenner, Urban Theory Lab, University of Chicago“This remarkable edited collection is a commendable contribution to the study of the links between mediation and intermediation, thus linking a venerable tradition of political anthropology with vivid portraits of the agency of brokers. It brings Bombay to life in ways that will surely inform the comparative study of fixers in other large cities caught in the flux of globalization.” -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University"An unconventional introduction to India's biggest city and an invitation to the joys and challenges of ethnography." -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *“While [Bombay Brokers] is nominally about the city of Mumbai, there is little doubt that it will resonate with anyone interested in the story of urban change and continuity all around the world. It is a distinctive contribution to the literature on cities and labour and one that is bound to inspire similar books in years to come.” -- Sneha Annavarapu * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“[Bombay Brokers] is a highly engaging read, as well as a rich and very valuable contribution to the literatures about Mumbai and the concept of brokerage.... The book provides food for thought for debates about the specificity of Southern urbanisms and enriches our conceptual vocabulary for thinking about cities.” -- Pablo Holwitt * Antipode *“[Bombay Brokers] is a book that, in its combination of sharp-eyed detail and endlessly multiplying perspectives, manages to create a simulacrum of the city itself in all its plurality and vitality. . . . The structure of the book makes it especially useful as a teaching resource.” -- Jonathan Spencer * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Bombay Brokers is an expert exploration of how life is fashioned in a harshly hierarchical city through the activities of individuals—creative, complex, tenacious individuals who accomplish survival, success or profit, sometimes space to build a community, by brokering deals and mediating conflicts between messy, overflowing institutions.” -- Tania Bhattacharyya * Journal of Asian Studies *"Bombay Brokers is ideal for teaching. One could easily assign a single chapter, thematic domain, or the whole. The book’s careful interventions on theories of value, politics, urban belonging, and place making will invigorate advanced students as well as professional anthropologists and urban planners, while individual chapters would be ideal for teaching introductory courses on cultural anthropology, urbanism, or South Asia. This imminently readable and teachable volume burgeons with insights and new research avenues for people thinking about and living in cities in South Asia and beyond." -- Andrew McDowell * City & Society *"It should be read widely. An ambitious project like this is rarely produced, or even attempted, and rarely with this consistent level of craftsmanship and shared vision start to finish. The style and length of the chapters, short and lacking pretense and jargon, make it an ideal complement to more densely theoretical tracts in undergraduate and graduate courses on urban politics and development in South Asia and the global South. The book is also a model of collaborative inquiry." -- Patrick Inglis * Contemporary Sociology *“Bombay Brokers deserves to be read and engaged with by scholars across anthropology, political science, history, and critical area studies. … [It] vividly captures the art of ethnographic writing and the ends to which it can be mobilized.” -- Amogh Dhar Sharma * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction. Ethnography in the Global Interregnum / Lisa Björkman 1 Part I. Development / Rachel Sturman 47 1. Bunty: Singh Builder of Dreams / Lalitha Kamath 59 2. Imran: Housing Contractor / Tobias Baitsch 68 3. Dalpat: Manager of Services / Lisa Björkman 78 4. Mehmoodbhai: Toilet Operator / Prasad Khanolkar 87 5. Kaushal: Land Agglomerator / Llerena Guiu Searle 95 6. Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers / Uday Chandra 101 Part II. Property. Lisa Björkman 109 7. Dr. K: Middle-Class Social Worker / Yaffa Truelove 121 8. Ashok Ravat: Shivaji Park's Sentinel / Lalit Vachani 128 9. Shazia: Proof Maker / Sangeeta Banerji 137 10. Nirmala: Kamathipura's Gatekeeper / Ratoola Kunda 145 11. Farhad: "Sue Maker" / Leilah Vevaina 154 Part III. Business / Tarini Bedi 163 12. Ramita: Surrogacy Agent / Daisy Deomampo 175 13. Muhammad: Revalorizer of E-Waste / Aneri Taskar 182 14. Deepak: Making Mumbai (in China) / Ka-Kin Cheuk 191 15. Lubaina: Framing "Development" / Lubaina Rangwala 199 16. Shankar: Delivering Authenticity / Ken Kuroda 208 17. Manal-Muna: Cooking Up Value / Tarini Bedi 216 18. Ramji: Business Energizer / Lisa Björkman 224 Part IV. Difference / Anjali Arondekar 233 19. Bhimsen Gaikwad: Singer of Justice / Shailaja Paik 243 20. Sultan: Image Manager / David J. Strohl 253 21. Raj: Carting Cosmopolitanism / Maura Finkelstein 262 22. Laxmi: Dealer in Emotion / R. Swaminathan 270 23. Dharamsey: Assembler of Tradition / Edward Simpson 278 24. Dalvi: Speaker of Cities / Gautam Pemmaraju 286 Part V. Publics / Lisa Björkman and Michael Collins 297 25. Shashi: Dot Connector / Rohan Shivkumar 307 26. Anil Prakash: Amplifier of Cinema-Industrial Connections / Kathryn Hardy 315 27. Gauravpant Mishra: Crowd Maker / Sarthak Bagchi 322 28. Srinivasan: Kingmaker / Simon Chauchard 329 29. Madhu: Door Opener / Bhushan Korgaonkar 337 30. Poornima: Designing Relations / Ajay Gandhi 347 Part VI. Truth / Lisa Björkman 355 31. Rajani Pandit: Detector of "Truths" / Srimati Basu 367 32. Afzal Taximan: Rumor Navigator / Sahana Udupa 378 33. Pawan: Prison Master / Atreyee Sen 384 34. Sujit: Master Communicator / Annelies Kusters 391 35. Chadda: Report Maker / Prasad Shetty & Rupali Gupte 401 36. Prakash: Data Entrepreneur / Amita Bhide 405 Conclusion. Other Places, Other Times / Lisa Mitchell 414 Glossary 425 About the Contributors 437 Index 441
£84.15
Duke University Press Thinking Like a Climate
Book SynopsisIn Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city''s strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect chaTrade Review“What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a ‘form of thought’—a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *“We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to ‘think like a climate,’ building connections rather than boundaries.” -- Gökçe Günel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi *“In this innovative ethnographic study, Hannah Knox takes the reader on a journey through the city of Manchester, UK, telling the story of climate change through the lives of those who model, govern, and enact it.... Researchers interested in environmental politics...will find great value in reading this book.” -- Danial H. Naqvi * Environmental Politics *“Thinking Like a Climate has a sense of urgency.... The book shows the vitality of new anthropological and geographical analyses of climate action in practice and their creativity in a collective effort to take seriously the material conditions of climate action.” -- Vanesa Castán Broto * AAG Review of Books *“One of the most important contributions of [Thinking Like a Climate] is Knox’s position as an engaged researcher who is implicated in Manchester’s contextually specific climate dynamics. . . . Knox argues that addressing the climate crisis requires a fundamental recalibration of how we think about and act upon the world." -- Andrew Karvonen * LSE Review of Books *“Thinking Like A Climate convincingly demonstrates why an anthropological approach is essential to the study of climate change. Methodologically, Knox has produced a compelling case that to understand climate change as a material-discursive phenomenon, the methods of ethnography are not only useful but crucial.” -- Sydney Giacalone * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1 Part I. Contact Zones Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35 1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40 How the Climate Takes Shape 63 2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67 Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89 3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95 When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122 4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127 Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156 5. Stuck in Strategies 159 Part II. Rematerializing Politics 6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179 7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205 8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234 Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259 Notes 273 References 285 Index 305
£20.69
Duke University Press The Globally Familiar
Book SynopsisEthiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan examines how the young men of Delhi's hip hop scene construct themselves on- and off-line and how digital platforms offer these young men the means to reimagine themselves and their city through hip hop.Trade Review“A rich narrative of urban transformation told from the perspectives of young men on the margins of Delhi. This lucid ethnography illuminates how hip hop and digital media entangle cultural worlds and redefine classed masculinity. A riveting read with cross-disciplinary appeal, The Globally Familiar opens new perspectives about urbanity from below.” -- Radha S. Hegde, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University“Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan has produced a wonderfully rich, nuanced narrative of Delhi's hip hop scene. Engaging with young men from India, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, and Nepal, The Globally Familiar is not only brilliantly and elegantly theorized but methodologically innovative and sophisticated. Combining the tradition of ‘hiphopography’ with digital production and participation, Dattatreyan's narrative not only bristles with insights about youth cultural production vis-à-vis race, masculinity, capitalism, and the global but also pushes global hip hop studies to the next level by demonstrating the power of sustained commitment to both the culture and those who produce it. The Globally Familiar is a rare gem.” -- H. Samy Alim, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles“The Globally Familiar convincingly argues that migrant working class young men’s performance of hip hop’s sonic, visual and kinemic aesthetics enables them to reimagine and remake the self and the city.... The book makes a stunning contribution to the burgeoning research on digital cultures, globalization, South Asian urban neighbourhoods and masculinity.” -- Anjali Gera Roy * Popular Music *“I am thrilled to learn from and teach this ethnography. With The Globally Familiar, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan has blown up the stage of the normative anthropological and cultural studies understanding of popular culture, India, urban aesthetics, subaltern life, global connections, and hip-hop.” -- Stanley Thangaraj * Current Anthropology *“The Delhi that emerges from Dattatreyan’s richly textured writing is like a contact zone or a borderland; a contested, unequal, but not unimaginable or unimaginative urban space.... A concept like the globally familiar allows for a complex understanding of how globalization transforms our cities from below.” -- Jaspal Naveel Singh * AAG Review of Books *“In The Globally Familiar, Gabriel Dattatreyan presents an intimate, complex, and ultimately hopeful ethnography of the hip hop scene in Delhi, India, capturing how hip hop’s meaning comes to be contested in its global circulation and uptake by young men in Delhi.” -- Amanda Weidman * Journal of Anthropological Research *“The Globally Familiar is an important work in providing a fully intersectional ethnography of the hip hop subculture in Delhi. This book has broad implications for helping us understand global hip hop outside of the West, as well as the globality of cultural activity in India outside of the elite.” -- Sara Hakeem Grewal * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Friendship and Romance 21 2. The Materially Familiar 49 3. Labor and Work 79 4. Hip Hop Ideologies 107 5. Urban Development 135 6. Race and Place 163 Epilogue 191 Notes 205 Bibliography 229 Index 241
£25.19
Duke University Press Bombay Brokers
Book SynopsisBombay Brokers collect thirty-six character profiles of men and women whose knowledge and laborwhich is often seen as morally suspectare essential for navigating everyday life in Bombay, one of the world's most complex, dynamic, and populous cities.Trade Review“Lisa Björkman's collection Bombay Brokers offers a brilliantly multivocal account of the many worlds of practical negotiation and embodied expertise that animate urban life in one of India's most dynamic, polarized cities. Just as important, it is a remarkable work of collaborative ethnography that forges a distinctive methodological strategy through which to illuminate the crises and contradictions of contemporary urbanism in Bombay and beyond.” -- Neil Brenner, Urban Theory Lab, University of Chicago“This remarkable edited collection is a commendable contribution to the study of the links between mediation and intermediation, thus linking a venerable tradition of political anthropology with vivid portraits of the agency of brokers. It brings Bombay to life in ways that will surely inform the comparative study of fixers in other large cities caught in the flux of globalization.” -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University"An unconventional introduction to India's biggest city and an invitation to the joys and challenges of ethnography." -- Andrew J. Nathan * Foreign Affairs *“While [Bombay Brokers] is nominally about the city of Mumbai, there is little doubt that it will resonate with anyone interested in the story of urban change and continuity all around the world. It is a distinctive contribution to the literature on cities and labour and one that is bound to inspire similar books in years to come.” -- Sneha Annavarapu * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *“[Bombay Brokers] is a highly engaging read, as well as a rich and very valuable contribution to the literatures about Mumbai and the concept of brokerage.... The book provides food for thought for debates about the specificity of Southern urbanisms and enriches our conceptual vocabulary for thinking about cities.” -- Pablo Holwitt * Antipode *“[Bombay Brokers] is a book that, in its combination of sharp-eyed detail and endlessly multiplying perspectives, manages to create a simulacrum of the city itself in all its plurality and vitality. . . . The structure of the book makes it especially useful as a teaching resource.” -- Jonathan Spencer * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Bombay Brokers is an expert exploration of how life is fashioned in a harshly hierarchical city through the activities of individuals—creative, complex, tenacious individuals who accomplish survival, success or profit, sometimes space to build a community, by brokering deals and mediating conflicts between messy, overflowing institutions.” -- Tania Bhattacharyya * Journal of Asian Studies *"Bombay Brokers is ideal for teaching. One could easily assign a single chapter, thematic domain, or the whole. The book’s careful interventions on theories of value, politics, urban belonging, and place making will invigorate advanced students as well as professional anthropologists and urban planners, while individual chapters would be ideal for teaching introductory courses on cultural anthropology, urbanism, or South Asia. This imminently readable and teachable volume burgeons with insights and new research avenues for people thinking about and living in cities in South Asia and beyond." -- Andrew McDowell * City & Society *"It should be read widely. An ambitious project like this is rarely produced, or even attempted, and rarely with this consistent level of craftsmanship and shared vision start to finish. The style and length of the chapters, short and lacking pretense and jargon, make it an ideal complement to more densely theoretical tracts in undergraduate and graduate courses on urban politics and development in South Asia and the global South. The book is also a model of collaborative inquiry." -- Patrick Inglis * Contemporary Sociology *“Bombay Brokers deserves to be read and engaged with by scholars across anthropology, political science, history, and critical area studies. … [It] vividly captures the art of ethnographic writing and the ends to which it can be mobilized.” -- Amogh Dhar Sharma * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Introduction. Ethnography in the Global Interregnum / Lisa Björkman 1 Part I. Development / Rachel Sturman 47 1. Bunty: Singh Builder of Dreams / Lalitha Kamath 59 2. Imran: Housing Contractor / Tobias Baitsch 68 3. Dalpat: Manager of Services / Lisa Björkman 78 4. Mehmoodbhai: Toilet Operator / Prasad Khanolkar 87 5. Kaushal: Land Agglomerator / Llerena Guiu Searle 95 6. Janu: Sister-Supervisor of Migrant Construction Workers / Uday Chandra 101 Part II. Property. Lisa Björkman 109 7. Dr. K: Middle-Class Social Worker / Yaffa Truelove 121 8. Ashok Ravat: Shivaji Park's Sentinel / Lalit Vachani 128 9. Shazia: Proof Maker / Sangeeta Banerji 137 10. Nirmala: Kamathipura's Gatekeeper / Ratoola Kunda 145 11. Farhad: "Sue Maker" / Leilah Vevaina 154 Part III. Business / Tarini Bedi 163 12. Ramita: Surrogacy Agent / Daisy Deomampo 175 13. Muhammad: Revalorizer of E-Waste / Aneri Taskar 182 14. Deepak: Making Mumbai (in China) / Ka-Kin Cheuk 191 15. Lubaina: Framing "Development" / Lubaina Rangwala 199 16. Shankar: Delivering Authenticity / Ken Kuroda 208 17. Manal-Muna: Cooking Up Value / Tarini Bedi 216 18. Ramji: Business Energizer / Lisa Björkman 224 Part IV. Difference / Anjali Arondekar 233 19. Bhimsen Gaikwad: Singer of Justice / Shailaja Paik 243 20. Sultan: Image Manager / David J. Strohl 253 21. Raj: Carting Cosmopolitanism / Maura Finkelstein 262 22. Laxmi: Dealer in Emotion / R. Swaminathan 270 23. Dharamsey: Assembler of Tradition / Edward Simpson 278 24. Dalvi: Speaker of Cities / Gautam Pemmaraju 286 Part V. Publics / Lisa Björkman and Michael Collins 297 25. Shashi: Dot Connector / Rohan Shivkumar 307 26. Anil Prakash: Amplifier of Cinema-Industrial Connections / Kathryn Hardy 315 27. Gauravpant Mishra: Crowd Maker / Sarthak Bagchi 322 28. Srinivasan: Kingmaker / Simon Chauchard 329 29. Madhu: Door Opener / Bhushan Korgaonkar 337 30. Poornima: Designing Relations / Ajay Gandhi 347 Part VI. Truth / Lisa Björkman 355 31. Rajani Pandit: Detector of "Truths" / Srimati Basu 367 32. Afzal Taximan: Rumor Navigator / Sahana Udupa 378 33. Pawan: Prison Master / Atreyee Sen 384 34. Sujit: Master Communicator / Annelies Kusters 391 35. Chadda: Report Maker / Prasad Shetty & Rupali Gupte 401 36. Prakash: Data Entrepreneur / Amita Bhide 405 Conclusion. Other Places, Other Times / Lisa Mitchell 414 Glossary 425 About the Contributors 437 Index 441
£23.39
Duke University Press Toward Camden
Book SynopsisIn Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses—her family''s house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. Toward Camden travels between what official reports say and what the city''s vacant lots withhold. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipientTrade Review“Mercy Romero’s Toward Camden is a profoundly moving and necessary meditation on Camden, a city marked by abandonment, dispossession, and resistance. In weaving familial narratives with the lives and deaths in and of Camden, Romero opens possibilities for us to consider the cultural geographies of a city and a people attending to survival. A tender, haunting, and critical work, Toward Camden has implications for our considerations of home, capitalism, gentrification, loss, and love.” -- Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, author of * Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature *“I've been waiting for Mercy Romero's book all of my life. Camden is home to my family, but there have been too few writers who have turned to it as a city worthy of deep and loving observation. Toward Camden is a response to that erasure. And it won't be soon forgotten.” -- Darnell L. Moore, author of * No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America *"Romero . . . combines incisive political commentary, cultural criticism, and memoir in her vibrant debut, a collection of essays about her hometown of Camden, N.J. . . . Elegiac yet hopeful, this meditation is full of power." * Publishers Weekly *"Romero joins a rare breed of writers who manage to convert hardship to healing, and isolation to more universal truths. Readers who chose to move toward Camden with Romero will be rewarded, not with a full explanation for what they encounter, but with an appreciation for how the human resilience she recounts and displays can be an inspiration for us all." -- Howard Gillette Jr. * New Jersey Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue 1 1. Toward Camden 1 2. Empty Lots 30 3. Demolition Futures 47 4. Halfway Houses 68 Epilogue 93 Notes 97 Bibliography 111 Index 121
£62.90
Duke University Press Toward Camden
Book SynopsisIn Toward Camden, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses—her family''s house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. Toward Camden travels between what official reports say and what the city''s vacant lots withhold. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipientTrade Review“Mercy Romero’s Toward Camden is a profoundly moving and necessary meditation on Camden, a city marked by abandonment, dispossession, and resistance. In weaving familial narratives with the lives and deaths in and of Camden, Romero opens possibilities for us to consider the cultural geographies of a city and a people attending to survival. A tender, haunting, and critical work, Toward Camden has implications for our considerations of home, capitalism, gentrification, loss, and love.” -- Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez, author of * Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature *“I've been waiting for Mercy Romero's book all of my life. Camden is home to my family, but there have been too few writers who have turned to it as a city worthy of deep and loving observation. Toward Camden is a response to that erasure. And it won't be soon forgotten.” -- Darnell L. Moore, author of * No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America *"Romero . . . combines incisive political commentary, cultural criticism, and memoir in her vibrant debut, a collection of essays about her hometown of Camden, N.J. . . . Elegiac yet hopeful, this meditation is full of power." * Publishers Weekly *"Romero joins a rare breed of writers who manage to convert hardship to healing, and isolation to more universal truths. Readers who chose to move toward Camden with Romero will be rewarded, not with a full explanation for what they encounter, but with an appreciation for how the human resilience she recounts and displays can be an inspiration for us all." -- Howard Gillette Jr. * New Jersey Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue 1 1. Toward Camden 1 2. Empty Lots 30 3. Demolition Futures 47 4. Halfway Houses 68 Epilogue 93 Notes 97 Bibliography 111 Index 121
£15.19
Duke University Press All That Was Not Her
Book SynopsisWhile studying caregiving and chronic illness in families living in situations of economic and social insecurity in Baltimore, anthropologist Todd Meyers met a woman named Beverly. In All That Was Not Her Meyers presents an intimate ethnographic portrait of Beverly, stitching together small moments they shared scattered over months and years and, following her death, into the present. He meditates on the possibilities of writing about someone who is gone—what should be represented, what experiences resist rendering, what ethical challenges exist when studying the lives of others. Meyers considers how chronic illness is bound up in the racialized and socioeconomic conditions of Beverly’s life and explores the stakes of the anthropologist’s engagement with one subject. Even as Meyers struggles to give Beverly the final word, he finds himself unmade alongside her. All That Was Not Her captures the complexity of personal relationships in the field and the diTrade Review“This beautiful, smart, and unique book cuts into ethnography and race in powerful and necessary ways, stepping off the plane of current critical race theory into risky, generative thinking and writing. An intimate, frank account of a situation and relationship beyond the convenient stability of an understanding or meaning, All That Was Not Her is an absolutely compelling read.” -- Kathleen Stewart, coauthor of * The Hundreds *“All That Was Not Her is an exceptionally compelling reflection on the long-term complicated relationship through time between an anthropologist and a key interlocutor. Todd Meyers remarkably gets at the fraught, complex, and entangled forms of connection and difference, offering a new understanding of the interpersonal, ethical, and epistemological dimensions of work undertaken in contemporary medical and sociocultural anthropology. This is an altogether necessary book for these times.” -- Robert Desjarlais, author of * The Blind Man: A Phantasmography *"Meyers’s conscience-driven reflections regarding the utility of his work, the shifting parameters of the researcher-interlocutor relationship, and the special challenges of communicating across gaps of class and race, form the heart of the book. He makes academic writing his leaping-off point for a deeply thoughtful, lyrically expressed ethical and philosophical enquiry. This is a book that can be slotted into many non-fiction categories, but don’t be put off: it is a unique work of literature." -- Ian McGillis * Montreal Gazette *"Meyers’ writing is compelling for its beauty and for the honesty of his descriptions. More than anything, I took from this its head-on confrontation with the uneasiness inherent in the relationship between the ethnographer and their subject that should be familiar to anyone with experience of doing ethnographic fieldwork." -- Esca van Blarikom * Sociology of Health & Illness *"The book is not about truth but about swimming in ambiguity. It is not even about the cliché conflict between 'truth' and 'accuracy,' as even these terms begin to disintegrate in the text. Meyers asks us to sit with discomfort and dwell in the fraught nature of ethnography. In this sense, the book is not quite an ethnographic portrait. It is rather an ethnography of ethnography itself—and where ethnography starts to break down." -- Emily Lim Rogers * American Ethnologist *"I thoroughly enjoyed reading All That Was Not Her, by Todd Meyers. The book is beautiful to look at, with artwork unusual in an academic publication. Meyers writes well as he shares with the reader what might most easily be described as a case study. . . . This is an excellent text to prompt critical thought and debate around the important topics of ethics, power relations, and the positioning of the researcher within research that involves people as participants." -- Khyati Tripathi * H-Death, H-Net Reviews *"What his account of Beverly gets her to think about, even though she can’t really grasp it, is the importance of reading for negativity even in those most crushed by the violences of late liberalism. In such an enterprise, our politics will have to be vandalized, experiments in academic writing will need to be undertaken, and the failures depicted in All That Was Not Her will remain beautiful, venerable, and worthy of preservation." -- Elizabeth A. Wilson * Somatosphere *"I was moved by Meyers’s reflections on the unfinished: the errors, failures, and obsessions inherent to the work of an anthropologist." -- Margaux Fitoussi * Somatosphere *"All That Was Not Her is an unsentimental yet vulnerable reckoning of fieldwork. An ethnography of ethnography." -- Andrés Romero * Somatosphere *Table of ContentsUndoing ix 1. These Moments Formed between Us 1 2. Still Life 13 3. The Accident of Contact 41 4. Resuscitations 63 5. A Living Room 85 6. Thoughts of Suicide 97 7. [ . . . ] 123 8. Breathing Feels like a Falsehood 133 9. Notes on a New Moralism 151 10. Black Figurine 175 Reassembling 199 Notes 203 Bibliography 215
£72.25
Duke University Press The Surrounds
Book SynopsisIn The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds—those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. Focusing less on what new worlds may come to be and more on what people are creating now, Simone shows how the suTable of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Exposing the Surrounds as Urban Infrastructure 1 1. Without Capture: From Extinction to Abolition 21 2. Forgetting Being Forgotten 61 3. Rebellion without Redemption 100 Coda. Extensions beyond Value 134 References 139 Index 153
£71.10
Duke University Press In the Skin of the City
Book SynopsisWith In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation’s capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomás shows how the city’s physical and social boundaries—its skin—constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and Native, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the powerless. He focuses on Luanda’s “asphalt frontier”—the (colonial) line between the planned urban center and the ad hoc shantytowns that surround it—and the ways squatters are central to Luanda’s historical urban process. In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain rights to the city, squatters embody the process of negotiating LuandaTrade Review"Tomás's analysis is a generous mélange of ethnographic and historical study of Luanda's changing urban condition over time, offering palimpsests of a changing city. . . . [The Skin of the City] is at its best when it focuses on the interconnections between various urban processes, inscribed locally, as well as the borders that enable such urban remaking." -- Shakirah E. Hudani * Journal of Planning History *"A very readable introduction to the city—and one that both draws the reader into an engaged understanding as well as providing plentiful material for further study. . . . [T]he book is highly recommended for emerging generations of urban scholars interested in not only the south and especially Sub-Saharan Africa, but also wider urban space and form, and ongoing dynamic urban transformations worldwide." -- Paul Jenkins * Journal of Southern African Studies *"Tomás’s book is an engaging and exhaustive study of the history, politics, economy, and culture of a constantly changing and unpredictable African capital city. In this sense, it will undoubtedly become a reference for researchers interested in urban studies, history, anthropology, and similar disciplines." -- Melusi Nkomo * Exertions *"In the Skin of the City is a finely crafted book about the political economy of one of the biggest cities in the Global South, which speaks to urban, social, and political theory. It builds on thorough research, engages its audience with a compelling narrative, and is a must-read for anyone who has an interest in Luanda, Angola, and urban Africa more generally." -- Till Förster * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsMaps and Figures ix Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Frontier Within 1 Part I. Formation 1. Un-building History to Build the Present 29 2. Ordering Urban Expansion 59 Part II. Stasis 3. A Place to Dwell in Times of Change 91 4. A City Decentered 119 Part III. Fragmentation 5. Reversing (Urban) Composition 147 6. The Urban Yet to Come 176 Coda: Is Luanda Not Paris 204 Glossary 215 Notes 219 Bibliography 241 Index 261
£72.25
Duke University Press Grammars of the Urban Ground
Book SynopsisThe 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.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione 1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin 27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy 41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane 58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift 82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde 108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo 150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles 164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme 180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone 199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall 221 Contributors 241 Index
£72.25
Duke University Press Wake Up This Is Joburg
Book SynopsisA single image taken from a high-rise building in inner-city Johannesburg uncovers layers of history—from its premise and promise of gold to its current improvisations. It reveals the city as carcass and as crucible, where informal agents and processes spearhead its rapid reshaping and transformation. In Wake Up, This Is Joburg, writer Tanya Zack and photographer Mark Lewis offer a stunning portrait of Johannesburg and personal stories of some of the city’s ordinary, odd, and outrageous residents. Their photos and essays take readers into meat markets where butchers chop cow heads; the eclectic home of an outsider artist that features turrets and full of manikins; long-abandoned gold pits beneath the city, where people continue to mine informally; and lively markets, taxi depots, and residential high-rises. Sharing people’s private and work lives and the extraordinary spaces of the metropolis, Zack and Lewis show that Johannesburg’s urban transformation oTrade Review"These pieces are sometimes sad, sometimes inspiring, and add up to a complicated picture of a city of contradictions. . . . Wake Up, This Is Joburg tells its range of interesting stories well, through on-the-ground reporting, with ample interviews and context, letting a variety of people around Johannesburg talk about both the struggles and successes of everyday life in the inner city." -- Jeff Fleischer * Foreword *"Wake Up, This Is Joburg effectively frames Johannesburg as one of the continent’s most important entrepôts where people journey from various nodes of the country and continent to earn a decent living. Rather than criminalise their activities, these stories provoke readers to ‘wake up’ and pay attention to those who make this city a fascinating but enigmatic place to live." -- Denise L. Lim * Urban Studies *"There is rich nuance in Tanya Zack’s flowing, sensitive narrative and Mark Lewis’s striking photography. The stories they tell are deeply human and individualised, yet cleverly interwoven within Johannesburg’s broader racial, social and economic anomalies. . . . This is an extraordinary book, with beautiful, powerful photographs and a sensitive, robust and accessible narrative. It provides a fresh perspective on life, struggle, survival, creativity and uniqueness in one of Africa’s major cities." -- Chris Heymans * litnet *"As a collection of salient imagery and anecdotes, the book is a poignant refutation of the cultural anger gripping White South African communities, and a visually arresting plea to recognise the city as an important cosmopolitan hub. As South Africa’s metropoles continue to undergo major political change, Wake Up, This Is Joburg is a critical reminder that it is the barriers to integration constructed by the white political class that have created the country’s political woes." -- Joe Konieczny * Visual Studies *Table of ContentsForeword. True Places / Achal Prabhala ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 1. S’kop 27 2. Tony Dreams in Yellow and Blue 53 3. Inside Out 81 4. Zola 115 5. Good Riddance 143 6. Tea at Anstey’s 175 7. Bedroom 211 8. Master Mansions 241 9. Johannesburg. Made in China 271 10. Undercity 305 References 337 Index 339
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Duke University Press Kids on the Street
Book SynopsisJoseph Plaster focuses on San Francisco's Tenderloin to explore the informal networks of economic and social support that enabled young people marginalized by gender and sexuality to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States.Trade Review"Kids on the Street is an admirable, thoroughly researched, and carefully documented history of the once vibrant queer culture of the Tenderloin and Polk Street. Featuring scores of interviews with one-time Polk Street denizens, it is also a lament for the displacement of the multiracial, multigender culture of San Francisco’s first post-Stonewall queer district. Drawing attention to that once-thriving, often overlooked culture, the book is a valuable contribution to queer history." -- Hank Trout * Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. A Performance Genealogy of US Tenderloins 33 2. Street Churches 69 3. Urban Reformers and Vanguard’s Mutual Aid 108 Intervention 1. Vanguard Revisited 155 4. The Urban Cowboy and the Irish Immigrant 174 5. Polk Street’s Moral Economies 220 Intervention 2. Polk Street Stories 258 Conclusion 276 List of Abbreviations 291 Notes 293 Bibliography 329 Index 345
£73.95
Duke University Press In the Skin of the City
Book SynopsisWith In the Skin of the City, António Tomás traces the history and transformation of Luanda, Angola, the nation’s capital as well as one of the oldest settlements founded by the European colonial powers in the Southern Hemisphere. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research alongside his own experiences growing up in Luanda, Tomás shows how the city’s physical and social boundaries—its skin—constitute porous and shifting interfaces between center and margins, settler and Native, enslaver and enslaved, formal and informal, and the powerful and the powerless. He focuses on Luanda’s “asphalt frontier”—the (colonial) line between the planned urban center and the ad hoc shantytowns that surround it—and the ways squatters are central to Luanda’s historical urban process. In their relationship with the state and their struggle to gain rights to the city, squatters embody the process of negotiating LuandaTrade Review"Tomás's analysis is a generous mélange of ethnographic and historical study of Luanda's changing urban condition over time, offering palimpsests of a changing city. . . . [The Skin of the City] is at its best when it focuses on the interconnections between various urban processes, inscribed locally, as well as the borders that enable such urban remaking." -- Shakirah E. Hudani * Journal of Planning History *"A very readable introduction to the city—and one that both draws the reader into an engaged understanding as well as providing plentiful material for further study. . . . [T]he book is highly recommended for emerging generations of urban scholars interested in not only the south and especially Sub-Saharan Africa, but also wider urban space and form, and ongoing dynamic urban transformations worldwide." -- Paul Jenkins * Journal of Southern African Studies *"Tomás’s book is an engaging and exhaustive study of the history, politics, economy, and culture of a constantly changing and unpredictable African capital city. In this sense, it will undoubtedly become a reference for researchers interested in urban studies, history, anthropology, and similar disciplines." -- Melusi Nkomo * Exertions *"In the Skin of the City is a finely crafted book about the political economy of one of the biggest cities in the Global South, which speaks to urban, social, and political theory. It builds on thorough research, engages its audience with a compelling narrative, and is a must-read for anyone who has an interest in Luanda, Angola, and urban Africa more generally." -- Till Förster * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsMaps and Figures ix Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: The Frontier Within 1 Part I. Formation 1. Un-building History to Build the Present 29 2. Ordering Urban Expansion 59 Part II. Stasis 3. A Place to Dwell in Times of Change 91 4. A City Decentered 119 Part III. Fragmentation 5. Reversing (Urban) Composition 147 6. The Urban Yet to Come 176 Coda: Is Luanda Not Paris 204 Glossary 215 Notes 219 Bibliography 241 Index 261
£20.89
Duke University Press Grammars of the Urban Ground
Book SynopsisThe 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.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: Thinking Cities from the Ground / Ash Amin and Michele Lancione 1 1. Social Junk / Natalie Oswin 27 2. Grammars of Dispossession: Racial Banishment in the American Metropolis / Ananya Roy 41 3. Future Densities: Knowledge, Politics, and Remaking the City / Colin McFarlane 58 4. Big: Rethinking the Cultural Imprint of Mass Urbanization / Nigel Thrift 82 5. Urban Legal Forms and Practices of Citizenship / Mariana Valverde 108 6. Transitoriness: Emergent Time/Space Formations of Urban Collective Life / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 126 7. Suturing the (W)hole: Vitalities of Everyday Urban Living in Congo 150 8. Infrastructures of Plutocratic London / Caroline Knowles 164 9. Affirmative Vocabularies from and for the Street / Edgar Pieterse and Tatiana Thieme 180 10. Deformation: Remaking Urban Peripheries through Lateral Comparison / AbdouMaliq Simone 199 11. Edge Syntax: Vocabularies for Violent Times / Suzanne M. Hall 221 Contributors 241 Index
£19.79
Duke University Press Kids on the Street
Book SynopsisJoseph Plaster focuses on San Francisco's Tenderloin to explore the informal networks of economic and social support that enabled young people marginalized by gender and sexuality to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States.Trade Review"Kids on the Street is an admirable, thoroughly researched, and carefully documented history of the once vibrant queer culture of the Tenderloin and Polk Street. Featuring scores of interviews with one-time Polk Street denizens, it is also a lament for the displacement of the multiracial, multigender culture of San Francisco’s first post-Stonewall queer district. Drawing attention to that once-thriving, often overlooked culture, the book is a valuable contribution to queer history." -- Hank Trout * Gay and Lesbian Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. A Performance Genealogy of US Tenderloins 33 2. Street Churches 69 3. Urban Reformers and Vanguard’s Mutual Aid 108 Intervention 1. Vanguard Revisited 155 4. The Urban Cowboy and the Irish Immigrant 174 5. Polk Street’s Moral Economies 220 Intervention 2. Polk Street Stories 258 Conclusion 276 List of Abbreviations 291 Notes 293 Bibliography 329 Index 345
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Duke University Press Politics in the Crevices
Book SynopsisThrough an ethnography of rapidly transforming urban neighborhoods in Istanbul and Cairo, Sarah El-Kazaz shows how the battle for housing has shifted away from the redistributive politics of the welfare state to neoliberal urban planning and design practices.Trade Review“In this brilliant, theoretically astute, and thoughtful multisited ethnography, Sarah El-Kazaz explains how the markets for housing in Cairo and Istanbul have been forged by historical and political forces. She shows how the displacement of urban politics onto the ostensibly apolitical milieus of tourism, heritage, and community affects struggles over housing and the right to the city in these two world metropolises. This book is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the politics of urban planning under neoliberalism.” -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London“In this rich political ethnography Sarah El-Kazaz asks how neoliberal modes of government have reshaped forms of urban politics in ways that challenge common assumptions about neoliberalism. The key terms of neoliberal politics—private ownership, value, interest, and property—are not, as it turns out, fixed and uniform concepts but in each case open to contestation and redefinition. With an innovative argument, superior research, and broad appeal, Politics in the Crevices offers a detailed and convincing account of these dynamics at work.” -- Timothy Mitchell, author of * Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of Property Markets 1. Cairo 21 2. Istanbul 65 Part II. Redistributive Markets 3. Heritage 107 4. Community 148 5. Visible Publics 183 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 233 Index 241
£78.30
Duke University Press For a Liberatory Politics of Home
Book SynopsisIn For a Liberatory Politics of Home, Michele Lancione questions accepted understandings of home and homelessness to offer a radical proposition: homelessness cannot be solved without dismantling current understandings of home. Conventionally, home is framed as a place of security and belonging, while its loss defines what it means to be homeless. On the basis of this binary, a whole industry of policy interventions, knowledge production, and organizing fails to provide solutions to homelessness but perpetuates violent and precarious forms of inhabitation. Drawing on his research and activism around housing in Europe, Lancione attends to the interlocking crises of home and homelessness by recentering the political charge of precarious dwelling. It is there, if often in unannounced ways, that a profound struggle for a differential kind of homing signals multiple possibilities to transcend the violences of home/homelessness. In advancing a new approach to work with the politics ofTrade Review“Michele Lancione has given us a tremendous gift with this pathbreaking and brilliant book. His arguments will be of immense meaning for social movements concerned with housing justice, many of which are grappling with regimes of property and the affective politics of home. The study of housing and homelessness will not be the same.” -- Ananya Roy, author of * Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development *“By mobilizing a new methodological, conceptual, and political grammar in which home and homelessness are not opposite but coherent expressions of a wider function of patriarchal and racialized processes of expulsions and extractions, this book offers a whole new perspective to imagine housing futures toward housing justice in which ‘housing precarity’ is not only a site for deprivation and relegation or a ‘problem to be fixed’ but can also perform a new politics of inhabitation.” -- Raquel Rolnik, author of * Urban Warfare: Housing under the Empire of Finance *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Problem of Lessness 1 Part I 1. The Subject at Home 25 2. Expulsion and Extraction 43 Part II 3. Italian Ritornellos 69 4. A Local Violence 99 5. A Global Culture 131 Part III 6. The Micropolitics of Housing Precarity 173 7. Deinstitute, Reinstitute, Institute 195 Conclusion. Beyond Inhabitation 223 Notes 233 Bibliography 257 Index 279
£75.65
Duke University Press Trust Matters
Book SynopsisAlthough numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai’s Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in the city due to its network of public charitable trusts. In Trust Matters Leilah Vevaina explores the dynamics and consequences of this conjunction of religion and capital as well as the activities of giving, disputing, living, and dying it enables. As she shows, communal trusts are the legal infrastructure behind formal religious giving and ritual in urban India that influence communal life. Vevaina proposes the trusts as a horoscope of the city—a constellation of housing, temples, and other spaces providing possible futures. She explores the charitable trust as a technology of time, originating in the nineteenth century, one that structures intergenerational obligations for Mumbai’s Parsis, connecting past and present, the worldly and the sacred. By approaching Mumbai through the legal mechanism of the trust and tTrade Review“This fascinating ethnography’s twinned focus on the charitable trust as a property form and on the Parsi community of Mumbai brings to light the tensions for both in maintaining a perpetual life. If trusts fix property and obligation, Leilah Vevaina shows how their perpetuity strains against community divisions, urban development, and global networks of philanthropic capital. This is a strikingly original and at times surprising book, with implications that stretch beyond Mumbai and toward rethinkings of unlikely modes of capital and forms of wealth that seem ‘forever.’” -- Bill Maurer, Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine“Leilah Vevaina presents a fascinating array of processes, lives, and practices of the Parsi community in Mumbai across legal, spiritual, and material spaces to illuminate the dynamic workings of the public charitable trusts it operates throughout the city. This book makes important contributions to theoretical discussions in anthropology, law, and South Asian studies.” -- Ritu Birla, author of * Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Inheritances 1 1. In Perpetuity: The Trust and Timely Obligations 27 2. Presents and Futures: The Trust and Obligation’s Asymmetries 52 3. No House, No Spouse: The Bombay Parsi Punchayet 75 4. The Beneficiary, the Law, and Sacred Space 105 5. From Excarnation to Ashes: Trust to Trust 128 6. Awakening the “Dead Hand”: Liquid and Solid Properties 146 Conclusion: An Unsettled (E)state 167 Notes 175 References 185 Index 201
£72.25
Duke University Press Politics in the Crevices
Book SynopsisIn Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the battle for housing has shifted away from traditional political arenas onto private crevices of the city. She outlines how multiple actors—from highly capitalized international NGOs and corporations to city dwellers, bureaucrats, and planning experts—use careful urban design to empower conflicting agendas, whether manipulating property markets to protect affordable housing or corner luxury real estate. El-Kazaz shows that such contemporary politicizations of urban design stem from unresolved struggles at the heart of messy transitions from the welfare state to neoliberalism, which have shifted the politics of redistribution from contested political arenas to design practices operating within market logics, ultimatelTrade Review“In this brilliant, theoretically astute, and thoughtful multisited ethnography, Sarah El-Kazaz explains how the markets for housing in Cairo and Istanbul have been forged by historical and political forces. She shows how the displacement of urban politics onto the ostensibly apolitical milieus of tourism, heritage, and community affects struggles over housing and the right to the city in these two world metropolises. This book is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the politics of urban planning under neoliberalism.” -- Laleh Khalili, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London“In this rich political ethnography Sarah El-Kazaz asks how neoliberal modes of government have reshaped forms of urban politics in ways that challenge common assumptions about neoliberalism. The key terms of neoliberal politics—private ownership, value, interest, and property—are not, as it turns out, fixed and uniform concepts but in each case open to contestation and redefinition. With an innovative argument, superior research, and broad appeal, Politics in the Crevices offers a detailed and convincing account of these dynamics at work.” -- Timothy Mitchell, author of * Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Making of Property Markets 1. Cairo 21 2. Istanbul 65 Part II. Redistributive Markets 3. Heritage 107 4. Community 148 5. Visible Publics 183 Conclusion 207 Notes 217 References 233 Index 241
£19.79
Duke University Press Trust Matters
Book SynopsisAlthough numbering fewer than 60,000 in a city of more than 12 million people, Mumbai’s Parsi community is one of the largest private landowners in the city due to its network of public charitable trusts. In Trust Matters Leilah Vevaina explores the dynamics and consequences of this conjunction of religion and capital as well as the activities of giving, disputing, living, and dying it enables. As she shows, communal trusts are the legal infrastructure behind formal religious giving and ritual in urban India that influence communal life. Vevaina proposes the trusts as a horoscope of the city—a constellation of housing, temples, and other spaces providing possible futures. She explores the charitable trust as a technology of time, originating in the nineteenth century, one that structures intergenerational obligations for Mumbai’s Parsis, connecting past and present, the worldly and the sacred. By approaching Mumbai through the legal mechanism of the trust and tTrade Review“This fascinating ethnography’s twinned focus on the charitable trust as a property form and on the Parsi community of Mumbai brings to light the tensions for both in maintaining a perpetual life. If trusts fix property and obligation, Leilah Vevaina shows how their perpetuity strains against community divisions, urban development, and global networks of philanthropic capital. This is a strikingly original and at times surprising book, with implications that stretch beyond Mumbai and toward rethinkings of unlikely modes of capital and forms of wealth that seem ‘forever.’” -- Bill Maurer, Professor of Anthropology and Law, University of California, Irvine“Leilah Vevaina presents a fascinating array of processes, lives, and practices of the Parsi community in Mumbai across legal, spiritual, and material spaces to illuminate the dynamic workings of the public charitable trusts it operates throughout the city. This book makes important contributions to theoretical discussions in anthropology, law, and South Asian studies.” -- Ritu Birla, author of * Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Inheritances 1 1. In Perpetuity: The Trust and Timely Obligations 27 2. Presents and Futures: The Trust and Obligation’s Asymmetries 52 3. No House, No Spouse: The Bombay Parsi Punchayet 75 4. The Beneficiary, the Law, and Sacred Space 105 5. From Excarnation to Ashes: Trust to Trust 128 6. Awakening the “Dead Hand”: Liquid and Solid Properties 146 Conclusion: An Unsettled (E)state 167 Notes 175 References 185 Index 201
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Duke University Press Evacuation
Book SynopsisIn Evacuation, Peter Adey examines the politics, aesthetics, and practice of moving people and animals from harm during emergencies. He outlines how the governance and design of evacuation are recursive, operating on myriad political, symbolic, and affective levels in ways that reflect and reinforce social hierarchies. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from the retrieval of wounded soldiers from the battlefield during World War I and escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11 to the human and animal evacuations in response to the 2009 Australian bushfires and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Adey demonstrates that evacuation is not an equal process. Some people may choose not to move while others are forced; some may even be brought into harm through evacuation. Often the poorest, racialized, and most marginalized communities hold the least power in such moments. At the same time, these communities can generate compassionate, creative, and democratic forms of care that offer alter
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