Urban Lifelines

Ash Amin is Emeritus 1931 Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College.AbdouMaliq Simone is Senior Professorial Fellow Emeritus at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield.Daniel E. Agbiboa is John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, at Harvard University.Julie-Anne Boudreau is Senior Researcher at the Instituto de Geografia of the Universidad nacional autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).Filip De Boeck is Professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leuven.Enrica Morlicchio is Professor of Economic Sociology at the Federico II University of Naples.

"Urban Lifelines is a masterclass in sophisticated urban theory informed by diverse geographies, refreshing the field whilst staking out unexpected sites of potentiality in our bleak times."Edgar Pieterse, University of Cape Town"Urban redevelopment for the global economy produces disposable lives. Yet a 'livingness' endures. Urban Lifelines detects its fugitive movements, in fissures of incipience where potential futures jostle the impossibility of the present. In this collaborative project, six authors explore a set of collectively developed key concepts as they play out in different geographical arenas and from different angles of approach. Together they paint a portrait of the 'black world' of the contemporary urban: where remaindered lives, moving in the shadow of colonialism, foreshadow another urban world, in the opacity of what might yet emerge."Brian Massumi, University of Montreal

• IntroductionChapter 1. Foreshadowing the FutureChapter 2. To Resume Reprendre. Urban Futures in the Era of the Congolese AnthropoceneChapter 3. Hope without Future? Eko Atlantic, Climate Urbanism and the Self-Devouring Growth of LagosChapter 4. To be Suspended: The 'Black Heart' of NaplesChapter 5. Extendible present: Making the future through smart buildings, sacred mushrooms, and ghosts in Mexico CityChapter 6. Time, Politics and the Incipient UrbanChapter 7. The Foreshadowings of Blackness: Methods of Urbanizing Futures