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Drawing on a five-year-long ethnography among city planners, architects, street-level bureaucrats, politicians, market and bank representatives, community leaders, and past, present, and future beneficiaries, this book tells the story of how a group of grassroots housing activists rose from oblivion to build a model community.

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Part I—Introduction
  • The Subjunctivity of Hope
  • Hoping for the Future
  • Part II—Infrastructural Citizenship
  • 1. The Making of a Model Community
  • 2. The Machine of Worthiness
  • 3. Waiting and Hoping
  • 4. Cartographies of Wellbeing
  • Part III—Middle-Class Sensorial
  • 5. Topographies of Consumption
  • 6. Democracies of Hope
  • 7. Infrastructuring Class
  • Conclusion. Post-Neoliberal Hopescapes
  • Bibliography

Architectures of Hope

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 17/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9780472055647, 978-0472055647
      ISBN10: 047205564X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Drawing on a five-year-long ethnography among city planners, architects, street-level bureaucrats, politicians, market and bank representatives, community leaders, and past, present, and future beneficiaries, this book tells the story of how a group of grassroots housing activists rose from oblivion to build a model community.

      Table of Contents
      • List of Illustrations
      • Preface and Acknowledgements
      • Part I—Introduction
      • The Subjunctivity of Hope
      • Hoping for the Future
      • Part II—Infrastructural Citizenship
      • 1. The Making of a Model Community
      • 2. The Machine of Worthiness
      • 3. Waiting and Hoping
      • 4. Cartographies of Wellbeing
      • Part III—Middle-Class Sensorial
      • 5. Topographies of Consumption
      • 6. Democracies of Hope
      • 7. Infrastructuring Class
      • Conclusion. Post-Neoliberal Hopescapes
      • Bibliography

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