The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture

by AbdouMaliq Simone

Book Overview

In The Surrounds renowned urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone offers a new theorization of the interface of the urban and the political. Working at the intersection of Black studies, urban theory, and decolonial and Islamic thought, Simone centers the surrounds--those urban spaces beyond control and capture that exist as a locus of rebellion and invention. He shows that even in clearly defined city environments, whether industrial, carceral,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478018135
• ISBN13: 9781478018131
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"