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Book SynopsisRiots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and communal tension, an “age of riots” has powerfully begun. As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode, and the hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed reveals the cracks in governability,
Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound brings together artistic works, political texts, critical urban analyses, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to “sense,” chronicle, and think through recent riots and uprisings—evoking a phenomenology of the multitude and surplus population.
With contributions from Asef Bayat, Joshua Clover, Vaginal Davis, Keller Easterling, Zena Edwards, Nadine El-Enany, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Gauri Gill, Natasha Ginwala, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Louis Henderson, Satch Hoyt, Hamid Khan, Gal Kirn, Josh Kun, Léopold Lambert, Margit Mayer, Vivek Narayanan, Ai Ogawa, Oana Pârvan, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, SAHMAT, Thomas Seibert, Niloufar Tajeri, Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Dariouche Tehrani, and Ala Younis.
Table of Contents1. Shake the Ground: A Foreword
Keller Easterling
2. A Slow Cancellation of the Future and the Fires Next Time
Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri
3. The Manifesto Unwritten
Satch Hoyt
Trouble with Riots: Alternative Definitions and Political Histories4. Introduction
Gal Kirn
5. Demos Noir: Riot after Riot
Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
6. Revolts, Resentment, Resignation: Five Theses on the Negative Dialectics of Post-Marxist Socialism
Thomas Seibert
7. No One Leaves Delila–A (W)rap on Riots
Natasha Ginwala in conversation with Vaginal Davis
8. Ideologies of Riot and Strike
Joshua Clover
9. “They Been Jealous, Must Be”–Toxic Sovereignty, Dispossession, and the Extimacy of Riots
Elizabeth A. Povinelli
10. Riot Act, April 29, 1992
Ai Ogawa
11. Pat–Riot–Against the Slow Cancellation of the Future
Ala Younis
Mnemonic Spatiality of Violence12. Introduction
Niloufar Tajeri
13. Riots as Contestations of Neoliberal Urbanism
Margit Mayer
14. Built to Be Torn Down, Fed to Be Starved, Resurrected to Be Disposed Of: Capitalism is a Riot, a Riot from Above
Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri
15. Revolving Anger & The Tarot Banksy
Zena Edwards
16. A Night of the Dispossessed: The Imaginable Violence of the Grenfell Tower Fire
Nadine El-Enany
17. Chrono-Cartography of the October 17, 1961, Massacre of Algerians in Paris
Léopold Lambert
18. 15 Years After 2005: Anticolonial Reflections on the Concept of “Riots” in the French Context
Dariouche Tehrani
19. Cities of Dissent
Asef Bayat
20. 1984
Gauri Gill
Figuration/Disfiguration: Racial Logic and Representation21. Introduction
Natasha Ginwala
22. In Search of 1949
Vivek Narayanan
23. Unruly Life: Subverting “Surplus” Existence in Tunisia
Oana Pârvan
24. Evidence of Things Unseen But Heard
Louis Henderson
25. Re-looking at Riots in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Chandraguptha Thenuwara
26. Black Side of the Hidden Moon
Unthreading Thoughts on the Riot in My Head
Satch Hoyt
27. SAHMAT: Cultures of Dissent and Collective Memory
28. The Time is Still, Always, Now!
Josh Kun
Biographies
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