City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads

by AbdouMaliq Simone

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415993229
• ISBN13: 9780415993227
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"