Urban Revolutions

Stefan Kipfer teaches in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto. He has published widely on space, social theory and urban politics, including the co-edited Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre and Gramsci Space Nature Politics.

“Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-) Colonialism in Transatlantic Context is the culmination of the anti-colonial, historical-geographical materialist scholarship that Stefan Kipfer has developed over many years. The book examines how Marxist and revolutionary anti-colonial currents can be fused and brought to bear on urban problematics, starting with Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon. What Kipfer terms the 'Lefebvre–Fanon lineage' is then brought into different time–space contexts, where it meets ideas and praxes developed by subalterns in their respective struggles against (neo-) colonial capitalism. In an intellectual voyage that traverses Algeria, the Antilles, France and Canada, Kipfer pieces together a wide range of intellectual currents with an admirable depth and mastery.”—Prof. Laam Hae, Urban Studies Journal

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Marxism, Anti-Colonialism and Urban Research1 Beyond Metaphor: Henri Lefebvre and ‘Colonisation’2 Times and Spaces of Liberation: Frantz Fanon on (De)Colonisation3 Creolising the Urban Revolution? Texaco and Literary Imaginaries in Martinique4 Is this Pipeline Urban? Indigenous Resurgence and Extended Urbanisation in Canada5 Mixing It Up: Demolition and Counter-Revolution in Greater ParisConclusionBibliographyIndex