Rethinking Life at the Margins

The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects, and Politics

Michele Lancione, Michele Lancione

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781317063995
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: City Planning & Urban Development
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Experimenting with new ways of looking at the contexts, subjects, processes and multiple political stances that make up life at the margins, this book provides a novel source for a critical rethinking of marginalisation. Drawing on post-colonialism and critical assemblage thinking, the rich ethnographic works presented in the book trace the assemblage of marginality in multiple case-studies encompassing the Global North and South. These works are united by the approach developed in the book, characterised by the refusal of a priori definitions and by a post-human and grounded take on the assemblage of life. The result is a nuanced attention to the potential expressed by everyday articulations and a commitment to produce a processual, vitalist and non-normative cultural politics of the margins. The reader will find in this book unique challenges to accepted and authoritative thinking, and provides new insights into researching life at the margins.

Index

Abaye (fruit market manager) 83

Abeid (Nubian groom) 136, 137, 140, 149n2

Aboriginal literature 6

Actor Network Theory (ANT) 7, 8, 9–10, 12, 144

affect(s), 4, 8, 16, 17, 20, 146, 149n5

agencement 124, 133n3, 218, 219, 220–1, 225, 226; see also assemblage thinking

Agier, M. 185

Ahmed, Sara 217, 225

Al centro di Tunisi. Geografie dello spazio publico dopo una Revoluzione—Au centre de Tunis, Géographies de l’espace public après une Révolution (bilingual website) 43

Al Kitab bookshop (Tunis) 49

alcohol abuse 5

Alexander, M. Jacqui 224, 225

aluminum recycling 158–160

Amin, Ash 5, 10

analytics: post-colonial 6, 7, 11; relational/grounded 5–6, 7; structural 4–5; ‘vitalist’ (post-human) 7–9, 11, 12

anarchism 7

ANT see Actor Network Theory

anti-colonialism 222

Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze and Guattari) 143

anti-racism 218, 219, 222, 227n4

Aotearoa New Zealand: colonization in 93–4, 96, 100–1, 104; culture 91

Appadurai, A. 30–1

Arab Spring 42, 55, 56

Ardhi (artist) 83

arrangement 219

assemblage(s) 103, 143, 219, 226; of catadores 166–7; democratic 44; and Roma policy 124, 130–2, 133n3

assemblage thinking 7, 9–11, 19; indigenous 92; and the Roma people 124–5

assemblage urbanism 12–13

Association 21 July (Associazione 21 Luglio) 128, 133n5

asylum seekers, Roma as 125

Avenue Bourguiba (Tunis) 43, 45–50, 54

Bab al-Bahr (Tunis) 53–4

Bakhtin, Mickhaïl 141

Bangkok (Thailand)77

barbed wire 47–8

Bardella, Édouard 142

Baviskar, A. 32, 33

Bawana (resettlement colony) 30–1, 35–8

begging 188–9, 192

Beijing (C...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• Notes on contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Recontextualization
• Resubjectification
• Repoliticization
• Openings
• Index