Always something else [electronic resource] :urban Asia and Africa as experiment / Simone AbdouMaliq.
By: AbdouMaliq, Simone [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse [distributor.] | Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Carl Schlettwein lectures: 9.; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 2015); Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, [2016] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (51 pages).).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783905758863; 3905758865.Subject(s): Cities and towns -- Africa | Cities and towns -- Asia | Urbanization -- Africa | Urbanization -- Asia | Africa -- Social conditions -- 21st century | Asia -- Social conditions -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available: Summary: The most extensive urban demographic transitions ahead will take place in Africa and Asia. These transitions occur in regions where the majority of inhabitants remain trapped in vulnerable employment, which limits the capacities to plan, save, invest, and afford critical amenities, as well as limits the horizons of what is considered possible. Yet, the aspirations for mobility, security, consumption, and attainment are enormous. How can different rationalities and practices of everyday sociality be more effectively connected to the prevailing concepts informing formal political and policymaking projects? How can incommensurable facets of urban life be folded into each other as a matter of an enlarged political practice? There is no pre-existent map that tells us how to link these equally important dimensions of urban life. Thus, any effort to consider the relationship between them is by necessity an experiment.
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The most extensive urban demographic transitions ahead will take place in Africa and Asia. These transitions occur in regions where the majority of inhabitants remain trapped in vulnerable employment, which limits the capacities to plan, save, invest, and afford critical amenities, as well as limits the horizons of what is considered possible. Yet, the aspirations for mobility, security, consumption, and attainment are enormous. How can different rationalities and practices of everyday sociality be more effectively connected to the prevailing concepts informing formal political and policymaking projects? How can incommensurable facets of urban life be folded into each other as a matter of an enlarged political practice? There is no pre-existent map that tells us how to link these equally important dimensions of urban life. Thus, any effort to consider the relationship between them is by necessity an experiment.
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