Rethinking Life at the Margins

Michele Lancione is Urban Studies Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK.

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)