Contents
List of figures vii
Notes on contributors ix
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction 1
1. The Assemblage of life at the margins by Michele Lancione 3
Recontexualization 27
2. Grand visions fizzle on the margins of the city by Kavita Ramakrishnan 29
3. After a revolution : public spaces and urban practices in the core of Tunis by Francesca Governa and Matteo Puttilli 42
4. Tasty vehicles : gourmet taco trucks, "trap" parks and other planning for zombis fresas (wealthy zombies) in San Antonio, Texas by Mark Tirpak 60
5. Cities that are just cities by AbdouMaliq Simone 76
Resubjectification 89
6. Under heartbeat city's golden sun : Māori and the margins of performing the ultimate urban by Tawhanga Mary-Legs Nopera 89
7. 'The ghetto will always be my living room' : hustling and belonging in Nairobi slums by Tatiana Thieme 106
8. From nomads to squatters : towards a deterritorialisation of Roma exceptionalism through assemblage thinking by Gaja Maestri 122
9. The machine and the poet : a tale about how the subject goes into the field (and how it comes back) by Jean-Baptiste Lanne 136
Repoliticization 151
10. Marginal attachment and countercycling in the age of recycling by Francisco Calafate-Faria 153
11. The 'differentiated countryside' : survival strategies of rural entrepreneurs by Eszter Krasznai Kovács 169
12. Marginality as resource? : from Roma people territorial practices, an epistemological reframing of urban marginality by Elisabetta Rosa 182
13. Citizen participation as microfascism : marginalising labour in Web 2.0 by Cheryl Gilge 198
Openings 213
14. Between the Fool and the World : toward a (re)contextualization of assemblage thinking in the contemporary university by Darren J. Patrick.215
Index 229