Full Description
Experimenting with new ways of looking at the contexts, subjects, processes and multiple political stances that make up life at the margins, this book provides a novel source for a critical rethinking of marginalisation. Drawing on post-colonialism and critical assemblage thinking, the rich ethnographic works presented in the book trace the assemblage of marginality in multiple case-studies encompassing the Global North and South. These works are united by the approach developed in the book, characterised by the refusal of a priori definitions and by a post-human and grounded take on the assemblage of life. The result is a nuanced attention to the potential expressed by everyday articulations and a commitment to produce a processual, vitalist and non-normative cultural politics of the margins. The reader will find in this book unique challenges to accepted and authoritative thinking, and provides new insights into researching life at the margins.
Contents
Introduction
1. The Assemblage of Life at the Margins
(Michele Lancione)
Re-Contextualisation
2. Grand Visions Fizzle on the Margins of the City
(Kavita Ramakrishnan)
3. After a Revolution: Public Spaces and Urban Practices in the Core of Tunis
(Francesca Governa and Matteo Puttilli)
4. Tasty Vehicles: Gourmet Taco Trucks, 'Trap' Parks and Other Planning for Zombis Fresas (Wealthy Zombies) in San Antonio, Texas
(Mark Tirpak)
5. Cities That Are Just Cities
(AbdouMaliq Simone)
Re-Subjectification
6. Under Heartbeat City's Golden Sun: Māori and the Margins of Performing the Ultimate Urban
(Tawhanga Mary-Legs Nopera)
7. 'The Ghetto Will Always Be My Living Room': Hustling and Belonging in Nairobi Slums
(Tatiana Thieme)
8. From Nomads to Squatters: Towards a Deterritorialisation of Roma Exceptionalism through Assemblage Thinking
(Gaja Maestri)
9. The Machine and the Poet: A Tale about how the Subject goes into the Field (and how it comes back)
(Jean-Baptiste Lanne)
Re-Politicisation
10. Marginal Attachment and Countercycling in the Age of Recycling
(Francisco Calafate-Faria)
11. The 'differentiated countryside': Survival strategies of rural entrepreneurs
(Eszter Krasznai Kovács)
12. Marginality as Resource? From Roma People Territorial Practices, an Epistemological Reframing of Urban Marginality
(Elisabetta Rosa)
13. Citizen Participation as Microfascism: Marginalising labour in Web 2.0
(Cheryl Gilge)
Openings
14. Between the Fool and the World: Toward a (Re)contextualization of Assemblage Thinking in the Contemporary University
(Darren J. Patrick)
