Reconfiguring the Postcolonial City

Urban Ecotones in the Global South
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71383-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 37, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Francopolyphonies

Global South cities are magnets of immigration flows. They are vivid crucibles of human diversity, cultural interactions, but also of political tensions and social violence. From Kolkata to Bogota, from Harare to Fort-de-France, from Bamako to Cape Town, this book offers a unique set of studies on cities where multifarious diaspora flows converge. Building on the concept of the ecotone, i.e. a contact zone between populations of different backgrounds, it elicits a multidisciplinary dialogue between social science and humanities scholars, exploring the articulation between the postcolonial and the neoliberal city. Following Ananya Roy’s proposition of a worlding the South (Roy 2014), this book contributes to forging a situated world view rooted in the experience and the imaginary of Southern cities.

With contributions by: Markus Arnold, Nataly Camacho-Mariño, Robin Cohen, Ute Fendler, Justine Feyereisen, Xavier Garnier, Marina Ortrud Hertrampf, Marianne Hillion, Mélanie Joseph-Vilain, Tania Katzschner, Thomas Lacroix, Christine Le Quellec Cottier, Sonja Loots, Emmanuel Mbégane Ndour, Ngetcham, Nicole Ollier, Parwine Patel, Molly Slavin.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Arnold, Markus

Lacroix, Thomas

Misrahi-Barak, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Markus Arnold is Associate Professor in Francophone studies at the University of Cape Town. His research covers postcolonial theory, Indian ocean & African literatures in French, text-image relations and graphic literature. His monograph is entitled La littérature mauricienne contemporaine (2017) and he is chief-editor of French Studies in Southern Africa.

Thomas Lacroix is CNRS director of research in geography at the Centre for International Research at Sciences Po Paris. His research focuses on immigrant transnationalism and its multilevel relations with the state and cities. He published The Transnational Society. A social theory of cross border linkages (2023).

Judith Misrahi-Barak is Professor in Postcolonial Studies at the English Department, University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France. Her prime areas of specialisation are Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean literatures in English. Her monograph is entitled Entre Atlantique et océan Indien: les voix de la Caraïbe anglophone (2021).