Reconfiguring the Postcolonial City. Urban Ecotones in the Global South - Sciences Po
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Reconfiguring the Postcolonial City. Urban Ecotones in the Global South

Résumé

Global South cities are magnets of immigration flows. They are vivid crucibles of human diversity, cultural interactions, but also of political tensions and social violence. From Kolkata to Bogota, from Harare to Fort-de-France, from Bamako to Cape Town, this book offers a unique set of studies on cities where multifarious diaspora flows converge. Building on the concept of the ecotone, i.e. a contact zone between populations of different backgrounds, it elicits a multidisciplinary dialogue between social science and humanities scholars, exploring the articulation between the postcolonial and the neoliberal city. Following Ananya Roy’s proposition of a worlding the South (Roy 2014), this book contributes to forging a situated world view rooted in the experience and the imaginary of Southern cities.
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Contents
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Frontispiece
Preface: Ecotones, Creolization, and Cityscapes – Robin Cohen
The Global South City as a Postcolonial Ecotone – Markus Arnold and Thomas Lacroix, p. 1-33
Part 1. Between Memory, Imagination and the Neoliberal Present: Revisiting the City
1. Redéfinir l’écotopie : utopie et écotone urbain en Afrique subsaharienne à partir de Rouge impératrice de Léonora Miano – Justine Feyereisen, p. 35-59
2. “Potch” in Progress: the Evolution of Zuleikha Mayat’s Depictions of Her Hometown in Her Writings – Parwine Patel, p. 60-74
3. A Dystopian New City: Raj Kamal Jha’s Critical Irrealism and Infrastructural Violence – Marianne Hillion, p. 75-92
4. Un écrivain-clochard à Harare. Lecture écotonale de « Appendix of the Journal » de Dambudzo Marechera – Xavier Garnier, p. 93-106
Part 2. Experiencing Otherness, Facing Tensions: Reconfiguring the City
5. Écotones urbains : traces des mentalités hétérogènes dans Le Mandat d’Ousmane Sembène et Madame Bâ d’Érik Orsenna – Ngetcham, p. 107-130
6. “Empire Sows the Seeds of Its Own Defeat”: the Reconfigured City in the Global South – Molly Slavin, p. 131-147
7. “Genius Deloci”: Reconfiguring Cape Town in Henrietta Rose-Innes’s Green Lion (2015) – Mélanie Joseph-Vilain, p. 148-165
8. Disrupting the Language of Nature in Urban Ecology - Problematic Narratives in Cape Town – Tania Katzschner, p. 166-189
9. Ruins and Ruderal Ecologies as Ecotonal Spaces: Post-apartheid Perspectives in South African Novels – Sonja Loots, p. 190-208
Part 3. Urban Engagements: between Encounter, Exclusion, and Creation
10. La Ville-Pays dans Tram 83 de Fiston Mwanza Mujila : un lieu, des socialités flottantes – Emmanuel Mbégane Ndour, p. 209-230
11. Au-delà du non-lieu ? Réceptions de l’écotone urbain dans Tram 83 de Fiston Mwanza Mujila – Christine Le Quellec Cottier, p. 231-246
12. L’écotone du marché de Fort-de-France, lieu ou non-lieu pour Patrick Chamoiseau dans Chronique des sept misères ? – Nicole Ollier, p. 247-264
13. « Ici on fume les morts » : fête et violences dans des « écotones » urbains à Bogota, Colombie – Nataly Camacho-Mariño, p. 265-281
14. Staging Atmosphere: Urban Ecotonal Spaces in African Music Videos – Ute Fendler, p. 282-302
15. Paris et ses espaces du Global South dans les romans de Shumona Sinha : entre zones de contact et non-lieux, zones de conflit et hétérotopies – Marina Ortrud Hertrampf, p. 303-320
Index
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hal-04832079 , version 1 (11-12-2024)

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Markus Arnold, Thomas Lacroix, Judith Misrahi-Barak (Dir.). Reconfiguring the Postcolonial City. Urban Ecotones in the Global South. Brill Academic Publisher, 37, 2024, Francopolyphonies, 978-90-04-71383-3 (Hardback) ; 978-90-04-71385-7 (PDF). ⟨10.1163/9789004713857⟩. ⟨hal-04832079⟩
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