City Life from Jakarta to Dakar

Simone, Abdoumaliq

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ISBN 10 : 0415993229 ISBN 13 : 9780415993227

Editeur : Routledge, 2010

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar By showing how much of what is considered peripheral to urban life is actually critical to it, this book opens up ways for understanding what it is possible to do in cities. Full description

Présentation de l'éditeur :

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process – an "anticipatory politics" – that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental problems, nor does it marshal the focal cities as evidence of particular urban trends. Rather, it examines how possibilities, perhaps inherent in these cities all along, are materialized through the everyday projects of residents situated in the city and the larger world in very different ways.

Biographie de l'auteur :

AbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist and Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Since 1977 he has had many jobs in different cities across African and Southeast Asia, in the fields of education, housing, social welfare, urban development, and local government. His best known publications are In Whose Image: Political Islam and Urban Practices in the Sudan, and For the City Yet to Come: Urban Change in Four African Cities.