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Toward urban provisioning
  • AbdouMaliq Simone
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Abstract

The “city” remains an insufficient embodiment of urbanization processes. It has offered itself as the most adept technical form for ensuring the judicious operationalization of heterogeneity. But this promise has been premised on relegating blackness to the margins of worthiness, Here, the illusion of the self’s sufficiency necessitated incessant experimentation with extracting energies and inventiveness from a captive population. But whose capture and denigration meant that its fundamental resourcefulness could never be fully used. So in grappling with how urbanization extends itself beyond the city-form, it is possible to better understand a broader range of technical processes that might exceed extraction and materialize all that the urban could do.

Abstract

The “city” remains an insufficient embodiment of urbanization processes. It has offered itself as the most adept technical form for ensuring the judicious operationalization of heterogeneity. But this promise has been premised on relegating blackness to the margins of worthiness, Here, the illusion of the self’s sufficiency necessitated incessant experimentation with extracting energies and inventiveness from a captive population. But whose capture and denigration meant that its fundamental resourcefulness could never be fully used. So in grappling with how urbanization extends itself beyond the city-form, it is possible to better understand a broader range of technical processes that might exceed extraction and materialize all that the urban could do.

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Figures ix
  5. Contributors x
  6. Acknowledgements xiv
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part I: Provincialising historicism
  9. 1 Parochial imaginations 37
  10. 2 Countermapping colonial amnesia in Parisian landscapes 56
  11. 3 Provincialising industry 77
  12. Part II: Provincialising (urban) geography
  13. 4 Provincialising conviviality 99
  14. 5 Urban infrastructures, migration and the reproduction of colonial forms of difference 120
  15. 6 Decolonising Cottbus 143
  16. Part III: Provincialising the (urban) political
  17. 7 Decolonial migrant claims to the metropole 171
  18. 8 Portuguese Urban Studies 192
  19. 9 Between hope and despair 213
  20. 10 Theorising Hamburg from the South 235
  21. Coda 257
  22. Index 263
https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526158444.00021

Chapters in this book

  1. Front Matter i
  2. Dedication v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Figures ix
  5. Contributors x
  6. Acknowledgements xiv
  7. Introduction 1
  8. Part I: Provincialising historicism
  9. 1 Parochial imaginations 37
  10. 2 Countermapping colonial amnesia in Parisian landscapes 56
  11. 3 Provincialising industry 77
  12. Part II: Provincialising (urban) geography
  13. 4 Provincialising conviviality 99
  14. 5 Urban infrastructures, migration and the reproduction of colonial forms of difference 120
  15. 6 Decolonising Cottbus 143
  16. Part III: Provincialising the (urban) political
  17. 7 Decolonial migrant claims to the metropole 171
  18. 8 Portuguese Urban Studies 192
  19. 9 Between hope and despair 213
  20. 10 Theorising Hamburg from the South 235
  21. Coda 257
  22. Index 263
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