Urban Revolutions
Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context
Published on 8. September 2022
Book
Hardback
324 pages
978-90-04-52490-3 (ISBN)
Description
What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows how these struggles force us to understand the (neo-)colonial aspects of capitalist urbanization in a comparatively and historically nuanced fashion. In so doing, he demonstrates that urban research can offer a rich, if uneven, terrain upon which to develop the relationship between Marxist and anti-colonial intellectual traditions. After a detailed dialogue between Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon, Kipfer engages creole literature in the French Antilles, Indigenous radicalism in North America and political anti-racism in mainland France.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
240 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-52490-3 (9789004524903)
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Person
Stefan Kipfer teaches in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto. He has published widely on space, social theory and urban politics, including the co-edited Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre and Gramsci Space Nature Politics.
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Marxism, Anti-Colonialism and Urban Research
1 Beyond Metaphor: Henri Lefebvre and 'Colonisation'
2 Times and Spaces of Liberation: Frantz Fanon on (De)Colonisation
3 Creolising the Urban Revolution? Texaco and Literary Imaginaries in Martinique
4 Is this Pipeline Urban? Indigenous Resurgence and Extended Urbanisation in Canada
5 Mixing It Up: Demolition and Counter-Revolution in Greater Paris
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Marxism, Anti-Colonialism and Urban Research
1 Beyond Metaphor: Henri Lefebvre and 'Colonisation'
2 Times and Spaces of Liberation: Frantz Fanon on (De)Colonisation
3 Creolising the Urban Revolution? Texaco and Literary Imaginaries in Martinique
4 Is this Pipeline Urban? Indigenous Resurgence and Extended Urbanisation in Canada
5 Mixing It Up: Demolition and Counter-Revolution in Greater Paris
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index