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List of contents
Part I Introduction: The Promises and Perils of Urban Theory Under the Shadow of Globalization 1. Disassembling Cities: Spatial, Social, and Conceptual Trajectories Across the Urban Globe 2. A Pragmatic View of Valuation for Theorizing Spatial Production in Urban planning Thought Part II Transformation of Self and Space 3. The Organizing Logics of Predatory Formations: Individualism, Identity, and the Consumption of Goods as the Good Life 4. Trajectories, Vectors and Change: Mapping Late Neoliberal Assemblage 5. Rise of the Synthetic City: Eko Atlantic and Practices of Dispossession and Repossession in Nigeria 6. Reassembling the City through Intersectional Feminism: Subversive Responses to the Economic Crisis in Barcelona Part III Militarization and the Spectacle of the (In)Security State 7. The Organizing Logics of Predatory Formations: Militarization and the Spectacle of the (In)Security State 8. Dissasembling Foundational Fictions of Democracy: The People and the Plaza, Militarization and Mobilization in Oaxaca 9. Dis/Assembling Palestine 10. Urban Assemblages and Dis-assemblages: Medellín's Hegemonic and Counter-Hegemonic Forums Part IV Disassembling Democracy and Urban Planning 11. The Organizing Logics of Predatory Formations: Disassembling Democracy and Urban Planning 12. Some Thoughts and Findings from the Field: Women and the Illicit Politics of Slum Redevelopment in Globalizing Mumbai 13. Disassembledge in the Siberian City of Ulan-Ude: How Ethnic Buryats Reconstruct Through Time and Space 14. How to take Flight from Menacing Futures? Young People and Education in the Slums of the Global South 15. Chronic and Concentrated Youth Joblessness in Disassembled Neighborhoods in Chicago
About the author
Elizabeth L. Sweet teaches at Temple University’s Department of Geography and Urban Studies. She engages in collaborative community/economic development activist research, focusing on links between economies, violence, and identities.
Summary
This book’s analysis is not only focused on the urban, political, and economic effects of contemporary capitalism, but is also concerned with a collective analytic that addresses these processes through the lens of disassembling and reassembling dynamics. In-depth case studies from scholars working in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia show
