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Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City
- Mapping the Mean Streets of Mumbai and Naples
Engelsk
Bogcover for Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City af Maria Ridda, 9781032361789
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781032361789
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032361786
Udg. Dato:
27 maj 2024
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
27 maj 2024
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Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City

- Mapping the Mean Streets of Mumbai and Naples
Engelsk
Paperback 2024
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This book investigates the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city through the lens of crime in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the present. Employing the analogy of a ‘black hole,’ it posits the discourse on criminality as a way to investigate the contemporary spatial manifestations of coloniality and global capitalist urbanity. Despite their different histories, Mumbai and Naples have remarkable similarities. Both are port cities, ‘gateways’ to their countries and regional trade networks, and both are marked by extreme wealth and poverty. They are also the sites and symbolic battlegrounds for a wider struggle in which ‘the North exploits the South, and the South fights back.’ As one of the characters of the novel The Neapolitan Book of the Dead puts it, a narrativisation of the underworld allows for a ‘discovery of a different city from its forgotten corners.’ Crime provides a means to understand the relationship between space and society/culture in a number of cities across the Global South, by tracing a narrative of postcolonial urbanity that exposes the connections between exploitation and the ongoing ‘coloniality of power.’

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
240
ISBN-13:
9781032361789
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032361786
Udg. Dato:
27 maj 2024
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Oplagsdato:
27 maj 2024
Forfatter(e):
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