City Life from Jakarta to Dakar

Movements at the Crossroads

AbdouMaliq Simone

• Publisher: Routledge
• Edition: 1
• Year: 2010
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Print ISBN:
  9780415993227
  9780415993210
• Subtopic: City Planning & Urban Development
• eBook ISBN:
  9781135850234
• Index: Social Sciences

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process – an "anticipatory politics" – that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and economies. As such, the book is not a collection of case studies on a specific theme, not a review of developmental problems, nor does it marshal the focal cities as evidence of particular urban trends. Rather, it examines how possibilities, perhaps inherent in these cities all along, are materialized through the everyday projects of residents situated in the city and the larger world in very different ways.

Table of contents

• Global Realities A Routledge Series
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Series Editor’s Foreword: From the City to Cityness
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• One On Cityness
• Two Towards an Anticipatory Urban Politics:
• Three Intersections: What Can Urban Residents Do with Each Other?
• Four Circulations: Finance as a Model of City Making
• Five Back to Intersection and Recharging the City
• Six Reclaiming Black Urbanism: Inventive Methods for Engaging Urban Fields from Dakar to Jakarta
• Endnotes
• References
• Index