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Entrevista com AbdouMaliq Simone
Get PDFEntrevista exclusiva realizada por Scott Salmon com AbdouMaliq Simone. O mote da conversa são os temas do livro Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South (After the Postcolonial), publicado em 2018.
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Get PDFEste artigo é parte da introdução do livro Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South (2018), de AbdouMaliq Simone. O autor propõe um estudo sobre distritos urbanos e zoneamentos como locais de mediações e transformações sociais. Nessa mesma edição da Revista Eco-Pós também publicamos o capítulo “A política da assistência periférica” e uma entrevista exclusiva com AbdouMaliq Simone
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An Interview with AbdouMaliq Simone
Get PDFAbdouMaliq Simone is an urbanist and professor of sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Since 1977 he has many jobs in different cities across Africa and Southeast Asia, in the fields of education, housing, social welfare, community development, local government and economic development. His best known publications are In Whose Image: Political Islam and Urban Practices in the Sudan and For the City Yet to Come: Urban change in Four African Cities. A forthcoming book is entitled Movement at the Crossroads: City Life from Jakarta to Dakar
Collective life unbroken
Get PDFMaking parallel cases for Muslim and African American collective life, this paper suggests taking the otherwise meaningless commonality of racial identity to which blacks have been ‘condemned’ and using it as a platform to incessantly provoke, experiment, reach out, argue and figure out ways to be together.
AbdouMaliq Simone was the Director of the International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding, University of South Australia, Research Associate at the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society, Oxford University, and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town
A produtividade da contingência em economias populares do sul global Diálogo com AbdouMaliq Simone
Get PDFEscuchar a AbdouMaliq Simone se asemeja a presenciar una improvisación de jazz. Frases y temas se deslizan dentro y fuera de un hilo conductor, se cruzan y se combinan, se encuentran para generar un acorde. Así también es como Simone describe a las economías locales. Son los arreglos provisionales y relacionales junto con la infraestructura social que surge de ellos lo que posibilita vivir en la ciudad. Simone trabaja y escribe sobre ciudades de África y Asia, actualmente es profesor de investigación en el Instituto Max Planck para el Estudio de la Diversidad Religiosa
y Étnica, Alemania, y profesor visitante de sociología en Goldsmiths College, Universidad de Londres, Inglaterra. Además de mantener largas colaboraciones con el Centro Africano de Ciudades, Universidad de Cape Town, Sudáfrica, y el Centro Rujak de Estudios Urbanos en Yakarta, Indonesia, la diversidad de sus asociaciones académicas refleja su trayectoria itinerante. AbdouMaliq Simone se crió en Freetown, Sierra Leona, y más tarde trabajó en psiquiatría comunitaria en Nueva York, Estados Unidos, en una época en la que los problemas de vivienda y desarrollo económico local eran prominentes en ese campo. Al regresar a África occidental, comenzó a trabajar con organizaciones de bienestar social musulmanas preocupadas por la inserción de los residentes musulmanes en ciudades como Abiyán y Acra. Así comenzó su
larga trayectoria pensando y colaborando para la transformación social y económica de lugares concretos, en colaboración con gobiernos municipales, artistas, residentes y jóvenes de ciudades africanas y asiáticas, así como con organizaciones sociales y no gubernamentales, y también con teóricos de los estudios urbanos
Rogue urbanism: emergent African cities
No full textMany scholars have been arguing that dominant knowledge and discourses on the African city are largely inappropriate. These discourses mirror simplistic modernist assumptions about what constitutes a viable, legible, efficient and competitive city. From such a vantage point the African city can only be seen and read as a narrative about absence, failure and inadequacy. Critics of these dominant discourses, such as Jennifer Robinson, AbdouMaliq Simone, Dominique Malaquais, Achille Mbembe, Asef Bayat, Ibrahim Abdullah, Okwui Enwezor, Onookome Okome, Jean Tshonda, Philip de Boeck and Sarah Nuttall, amongst many others, point to multiple alternatives in approaching and understanding the African city.
The unique ambition of Rogue urbanism is to produce new and relevant theoretical work on African urbanism in a way that works within the border zone between inherited theoretical resources and artistic representations of everyday practices and phenomenology in African cities. The assumption is that urban theorists can renew and expand their search for grounded approaches to theorise African urbanism through an engagement with the epistemologies of artists, cultural practitioners and designers; and theorists who work on the urban condition and spatiality can find new entry points to enrich their own creative processes. Where reflections fail to work directly with the insights of artists, scholars can at least work through their understanding of the ordinary in the everyday, however this may manifest or inspire. Rogue urbanism enlarges and deepens the search for the rogue intensities that mark African cities as they find their voice and footing in a truly unwieldy world
Rhythms of endurance, the practice of care and the peripheral political
No full textReview of AbdouMaliq Simone, Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019; 120 pp. 978150952336
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