1st Edition

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

368 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

368 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 Gramsci’s reflections on the problem of the South, it shows that the question of southern urbanism is about the... Read more

Introduction: After Gramsci, City as the Southern Question

Ranabir Samaddar

A Southern City as Maximum City

1 Southern City and the Rent Question: Calcutta 1910s–1950s

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Iman K. Mitra, and Kaustubh Mani Sengupta

2 Mumbai’s Southern Question and the Political Economy of Work and Space

Manish K. Jha and Mouleshri Vyas

3 A Port City to Portray the Image of a Country: The City of Chittagong, Bangladesh

Muhammad Faridul Alam

4 Mexico City’s Subaltern Spaces as the FIFA World Cup Arrives . . .

Jair Coronado Rosales and Julie-Anne Boudreau

B Expanding Urbanising Worlds

5 Organised Chaos or Induced Disorder? Reading Beirut through its Juxtapositions

Christine Mady

6 With Gramsci in the Park: Hegemonic Green Planning in Athens

George Kandylis, Penny Koutrolikou, and Fereniki Vatavali

7 Same but Different? Logistics Workers and Employment Conditions in the Mediterranean Port Cities of Naples and Marseille

Andrea Bottalico and Enrica Morlicchio

C Belonging and Alienation in a Southern City

8 Urban Creation or Fruitful Regeneration? What Is Marseilles’ Downtown?

Samuel S. Everett and Pierre Sintès

9 A Mediterranean Hub: Immigration and Religious Diversity in Marseilles

Jean Boutier and Arundhati Virmani

10 Buildings Communicate

Paolo Novak

11 Marginalised Places—Silenced Solidarities: An Autoethnographic Study on Refugees and Solidarity on Lesvos Prior to Summer 2015

Sevasti Trubeta

12 Commercial Sex Life as the Hidden Underbelly of the City and the Dirty History of Kolkata

Paula Banerjee, Sangbida Lahiri, and Rajat Kanti Sur

D Southern City in a Globalised World

13 From Financial Crisis to Refugee Crisis: Management and Resistance in Athens

Olga Lafazani and Thanasis Tyrovolas

14 The Southern City as a New Urban Frontier

Arnab Bhattacharya and Ugo Rossi

15 South of the South, the Kaohsiung Port City of Taiwan

Joyce C.H. Liu

16 A Living Southern Urbanism in South Africa

Yousuf Al-Bulushi

17 What Is the “South” in Southern City? An Epilogue

Niccolò Cuppini and Sandro Mezzadra

Biography

Ranabir Samaddar is Professor and Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies in the Calcutta Research Group, India, and a CIFAR Humanity’s Urban Future Program fellow.

Enrica Morlicchio is Professor of Economic Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, and CIFAR Humanity’s Urban Future Fellow.

Sandro Mezzadra is Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy.