The surrounds : urban life within and beyond capture / AbdouMaliq Simone.

Main entry:

Simone, A. M. (Abdou Maliqalim), author.

Title & Author:

The surrounds : urban life within and beyond capture / AbdouMaliq Simone.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Description:

ix, 158 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Theory in forms

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Exposing the surrounds: The infrastructure of the urban -- Without capture : from extinction to abolition -- Forgetting being forgotten -- Rebellion without redemption.

Summary:

"AbdouMaliq Simone's The Surrounds brings abolitionist theorizing to the untapped potentialities of contemporary urbanization in the so-called Global South. The book mobilizes various developments in critical Black thought to conceptualize urban spaces that have exceeded or subverted their design in response to individual or collective use. Composed as an interweaving of ethnography, literary reflection, theory, and poetics, The Surrounds reads against the grain of some common assumptions: that memory is critical to freedom; that alternative worlds are possible, and that rebellion is redeemed by the creation of such worlds. As an intersection of urban theory, Black study, and decolonial and Islamic thought, the book poses the surrounds as those spaces beyond capture, not immune from it, not free of it, but rather something aside it as a locus of continuous rebellion. The surrounds introduce space and spaciousness to the regimes of computation that seek to precisely define the parameters through which people, built environments, and the more than human relate with each other. Although situated in multi-sited ethnography and urban studies, The Surrounds speaks to a much wider range of Black critical theory and will be of interest across global Black studies"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781478015505 (hardcover)
1478015500
9781478018131 (paperback)
1478018135
(ebook)
9781478022749

Subject:

Urbanization Developing countries.
Sociology, Urban Developing countries.
Human geography Developing countries.
Social ecology Developing countries.
Marginality, Social Developing countries.
Decolonization Developing countries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
Decolonization.
Human geography.
Marginality, Social.
Social ecology.
Sociology, Urban.
Urbanization.
Developing countries.

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Theory in forms.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319815
Call No.: 319815
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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