Urban Revolutions Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context (Historical Materialism Book, 262)

Focused on struggles and debates in France, Martinique and Canada, Urban Revolutions shows how research on the (neo-)colonial dimensions of capitalist urbanization deepens the relationship between Marxist and anti-colonial traditions, including those represented by Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon. "What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows how these struggles force us to understand the (neo-)colonial aspects of capitalist urbanization in a comparatively and historically nuanced fashion. In so doing, he demonstrates that urban research can offer a rich, if uneven, terrain upon which to develop the relationship between Marxist and anti-colonial intellectual traditions. After a detailed dialogue between Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon, Kipfer engages creole literature in the French Antilles, Indigenous radicalism in North America and political anti-racism in mainland France"-- Provided by publisher Introduction: Marxism, anti-colonialism and urban research -- Beyond metaphor : Henri Lefebvre and 'colonisation' -- Times and spaces of liberation : Frantz Fanon on (de)colonisation -- Creolising the urban revolution? Texaco in text in italics, change here? And literary imaginaries in Martinique -- Is this pipeline urban? Indigenous resurgence and extended urbanisation in Canada -- Mixing it up : demolition and counter-revolution in greater Paris