Title & Author:

Nights of the dispossessed : riots unbound / edited by Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri.

Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, [2021]
[New York] : Columbia University Press

Description:

433 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"The publication was initiated with the public program 'Riots: Dissent and Spectres, Control and Ruptures' organized by Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri, at Acud Macht Neu, January 26-27, 2018, supported by ifa Gallery Berlin."--Colophon
Includes bibliographical references.
Shake the ground: a foreword / Keller Easterling -- A slow cancellation of the future and the fires next time / Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, Niloufar Tajeri -- The manifesto unwritten / Satch Hoyt -- Demos noir: riot after riot / Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar -- Revolts, resentment, resignation: five theses on the negative dialectics of post-Marxist socialism / Thomas Seibert -- No one leaves Delilah: a (w)rap on riots / Natasha Ginwala in conversation with Vaginal Davis -- Ideologies of riot and strike / Joshua Clover -- "They been jealous, must be": toxic sovereignty, dispossession, and the extimacy of riots / Elizabeth A. Povinelli -- Riot act, April 29, 1992 / Ai Ogawa -- Pat-Riot: against the slow cancellation of the future / Ala Younis -- Riots as contestations of neoliberal urbanism / Margit Mayer -- Fuel to the fire / Natascha Sadr Haghighian -- Built to be torn down, fed to be starved, resurrected to be disposed of: capitalism is a riot, a riot from above / Gal Kirn and Niloufar Tajeri -- Revolving anger & the tarot bansky / Zena Edwards -- A night of the dispossessed: the imaginable violence of the Grenfell Tower fire / Nadine El-Enany -- Chrono-cartography of the October 17, 1961, massacre of Algerians in Paris / Léopold Lambert -- 15 years after 2005: anticolonial reflections on the concept of "riots" in the French context / Dariouche Tehrani -- Cities of dissent / Asef Bayat -- 1984 / Gauri Gill -- In search of 1949 / Vivek Narayanan -- Unruly life: subverting "surplus" existence in Tunisia / Oana Pârvan -- Evidence of things unseen but heard / Louis Henderson -- Re-looking at riots in contemporary Sri Lanka / Chandraguptha Thenuwara -- Black side of the hidden moon unthreading thoughts on the riot in my head / Satch Hoyt -- SAHMAT: cultures of dissent and collective memory -- The time is still, always, now! / Josh Kun.

Summary:

Riots are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and that occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and communal tension, an "age of riots" has powerfully begun. As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode and the hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed reveals the cracks in governability, 'Nights of the Dispossessed' brings together artistic works, political texts, critical urban analyses, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to "sense," chronicle, and think through recent riots and uprisings-evoking a phenomenology of the multitude and surplus population. With contributions from Asef Bayat, Joshua Clover, Vaginal Davis, Zena Edwards, Nadine El-Enany, Dilip Gaonkar, Gauri Gill, Natasha Ginwala, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Louis Henderson, Satch Hoyt, Hamid Khan, Gal Kirn, Josh Kun, Leopold Lambert, Margit Mayer, Vivek Narayanan, Oana Parvan, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Thomas Seibert, Niloufar Tajeri, Chandraguptha Thenuwara, Dariouche Tehrani, and Ala Younis

ISBN:

1941332633 (paperback)
9781941332634 (paperback)

Subject:

Political violence in art.
Riots Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
Violence politique dans l'art.
Sociologie urbaine.
Émeutes Aspect social.
urban sociology.

Added entries:

Ginwala, Natasha, editor.
Kirn, Gal, editor.
Tajeri, Niloufar, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316823
Call No.: 316823
Status: Available