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Postcolonial Urban Studies: Édouard Glissant and the Whole-World of Cities

by Garth Myers
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781788218405
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Agenda Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Agenda Publishing
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  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: GBP 85.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 499 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development

Drawing on ideas from postcolonial theory and literary and cultural studies Garth Myers develops a new framework for re-imagining global urban studies. This framework is developed in dialogue with the work of Martinican poet and thinker �douard Glissant, in particular his collection of essays entitled, Treatise on the Whole-World, which deploys analogy and juxtaposition to elucidate relationality between places.

Utilizing this methodology, which is comparative in nature, each chapter is based around a pair of cities through which different themes are explored. The pairings are: Fort de France, Martinique with Zanzibar, Tanzania; the Zambian Copperbelt with Scranton, USA; Kingston, Jamaica with Hartford, USA; and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with Los Angeles, USA. Each chapter combines historical, literary and cultural studies with analysis of a tangible, crucial issue in urban studies. In so doing, the book addresses some of the key concerns of canonical literature in Global North urban studies - from the Manchester School, Chicago School and Los Angeles School, along with the work of Jane Jacobs - and considers what an alternative Glissantian cultural approach might offer.

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