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

"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Theory in forms.
Main Author: Simone, A. M. (Abdou Maliqalim) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
Series:Theory in forms.
Subjects:
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.
Physical Description:ix, 158 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction. Exposing the surrounds: The infrastructure of the urban
  • Without capture : from extinction to abolition
  • Forgetting being forgotten
  • Rebellion without redemption.