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Michael Simpson - Terminal City, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Terminal City

Infrastructures of Racial Colonial Capitalism in Vancouver

Av Michael Simpson

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The entanglement of Vancouver's infrastructure in settler colonialism and racialized exploitationVancouver, Canada, has long been held up as an environmentally conscious coastal refuge and model of progressive urban planning. Unpacking the troubling complexities that lie beneath the city's otherwise tidy self-image, Terminal City reveals the long, recurring patterns of racialized violence and Indigenous dispossession crucial to its formation.Examining the histories of Vancouver's infrastructures, including railways, ports, the freeway system, fossil-fuel pipelines, and property, Michael Simpson details the various spatial manifestations of settler colonialism and racial capitalism that constitute the city's urban environment—using it as a case study to reveal such tendencies around the world. Simpson exposes how the seizure of Indigenous lands and the destruction of Black communities has been foundational to the development of the city, and he highlights its structural dependency on these violent legacies, as well as the ongoing struggles to dismantle them.Bringing together theoretical insights from the fields of urban geography, political ecology, and Indigenous studies, Simpson provides a distinctive intervention into contemporary debates around the material basis of logistics and circulation. At a time when massive upheavals to urban infrastructure are taking place in the hopes of establishing greater sustainability, Terminal City raises important questions about how this moment of transition might be harnessed to bring about decolonial abolitionist futures that redefine what a city can become.Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-11-17
  • Mått: 140 x 216 x 16 mm
  • Vikt: 482 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 312
  • Förlag: University of Minnesota Press
  • ISBN: 9781517921286
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Michael Simpson is senior lecturer in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He is coauthor, with Rueben George, of the award-winning book It Stops Here: Standing Up for Our Lands, Our Waters, and Our People.

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"In this extraordinary book, Michael Simpson reveals the city as a dense web of infrastructures shaped by violence, dispossession, and displacement. Yet it is also alive with Indigenous, Black, Chinese, and workers' struggles over roads, rail, ports, pipelines, and property, pushing toward a just and decolonized future. With unflinching analysis, Simpson traces infrastructures alive with possibility and a different city to come." —Deborah Cowen, author of The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade"Terminal City masterfully demonstrates the violence of colonial dispossession and the remaking and resistance of səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) forms of life, land, and community in the reproduction of both settler colonial capital and space in Vancouver. A must-read." —Glen Sean Coulthard, author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition"Terminal City provides a crucial correction to generations of hegemonic accounts of Canada's third largest metropole. Up to now, critical readers, activists, and citizens here have been forced to counter-interpolate ruling-class versions of Vancouver. We have had to sift through self-congratulation and solipsism to discern the actual power relations masked by distorted narratives of city building. In this powerful and clear-eyed work, Michael Simpson reveals the conflicts, contradictions, and complexities of race and class in a way that foregrounds them at last. Out of the ashes of the myth of Vancouver exceptionalism will come a greater truth. After Terminal City, there is no going back." —Wayde Compton, author of Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics

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