The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture Simone Abdoumaliq
The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture Simone Abdoumaliq In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political.…
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The Surrounds: Urban Life within and beyond Capture Simone Abdoumaliq
In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral, administrative, or domestic, residents use spaces for purposes they were not designed for: schools become housing, markets turn into classrooms, tax offices transform into repair shops. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds--those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention.
They are where forgotten and marginalized populations invent new relations and ways of living and being, continuously reshaping what individuals and collectives can do. The surrounds, Simone contends, are where nothing fits according to design. Focusing less on
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