{"product_id":"improvised-lives-rhythms-of-endurance-in-an-urban-south-9781509523368","title":"Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in more expansive ways that capture what really goes on within them? In such cities, popular districts are the settings of more uncertain operations that take place under the cover of darkness, generating uncanny alliances among disparate bodies, materials and things and expanding the urban sensorium and its capacities for liveliness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this important new book AbdouMaliq Simone explores the nature of these alliances, portraying urban districts as sites of enduring transformations through rhythms that mediate between the needs of residents not to draw too much attention to themselves and their aspirations to become a small niche of exception. Here we discover an urban South that exists as dense rhythms of endurance that turn out to be vital for survival, connectivity, and becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Here, urban worlds – metal scrap, unhinged concrete, electrical waste, slowdowns, and interruptions – emerge with and through secretive human connections. AbdouMaliq Simone narrates the urban as an aesthetics of promise, where the uninhabitable generates districts of improvising communities, collectively living-with, and unsettling, infrastructures of harm.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine McKittrick, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘A brilliant and innovative account of urban life, seen both as confined to place and at the same time enduring and generative, composed through the weaving together of different experiments, connections, gatherings and imaginaries. As ever in his work, Simone provides us with a unique perspective on the city, and a distinctive way of seeing urbanism and speculating on its social, economic and political potentials.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eColin McFarlane, Durham University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The Uninhabitable 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Ensemble Work 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Mechanics of Improvised Relations 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Inscribing Sociality in the Dark: The Pragmatics of a Legible Home 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Politics of Peripheral Care 122\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 147\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409519944023,"sku":"9781509523368","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781509523368.jpg?v=1730507081","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/improvised-lives-rhythms-of-endurance-in-an-urban-south-9781509523368","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}