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The City as the Southern Question: Alternative Histories of Urbanisation After Gramsci

Edited by Ranabir Samaddar, Edited by Enrica Morlicchio, Edited by Sandro Mezzadra

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This innovative edited volume places global urbanism in the context of the phenomenal growth of cities of the South, investigating their colonial contentiousness and asking how their history plays out in the twenty-first century phenomenon of urbanisation. Inspired by Antonio Gramsciâ€™s reflections on the problem of the South, it shows that the question of southern urbanism is about the anomalies and growth of southern cities, the histories of struggles, technological and logistical reorientations, new zoning practices of neoliberal capitalism, and remaking of urban geographies towards a possible urban future that aims to be just. Crucially, it asks whether todayâ€™s city is a seamless formation of several overlapping phases of growth, or if there is a decisive break today figured by the hyper growth of these cities. To understand the implications of these questions for visions of an urban future, this volume takes a number of southern cities of Asia and Europe as case studies, including Kolkata, Mumbai, Chittagong, Beirut, Athens, Naples, and Marseille. It shows how these cities are paradoxically marked by both fractured geographies and new types of popular mobilisations, solidarities, and ethic of protection and care, showing this to be the core of the Southern question constituting the urban experience of our time. It will appeal to advanced-level students and scholars with interests in urban sociology, Southern urbanisation, postcolonial studies, political science, political economy and urban geography.

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