AbdouMaliq Simone, Professor of Sociolgy and Urbanism, Goldsmiths College

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Books

1994 In Whose Image? Urban Practices and Political Islam in Sudan. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press. info

2004 For the City Yet to Come: Urban Life in Four African Cities. Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press. info

2005 Urban Africa: Changing Contours of Survival in the City. Dakar: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa; London: Zed Books. With Abdelghani Abouhani. info

2009 City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads. New York; London: Routledge. info

Book Chapters

2007 Sacral Spaces in Two West African Cities. In Pal Ahluwahlia, Louise Bethlemen, and Ruth Ginio (eds.) Violence and Non-Violence in Africa. London; New York: Routledge 63-83.

2007 Assembling Douala. In Alev Cinar and Thomas Bender (eds.) Locating the City: Urban Imaginaries and the Practices of Modernity. Minneapolis; London: University of Minnesota Press, 79-99.

2007 Broken Links, Changing Speeds, Spatial Multiples. In Kevin Hetherington, Ann Cronin and Beatriz Jaguaribe (eds.) Consuming the City. London; New York: Routledge, 161-180.

2007 Waiting in African Cities. In Michael Sorkin (ed.) Indefensible Space: The Architecture of the National Insecurity State. London; New York: Routledge, 97-109.

2008 The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanities in the Larger Urban World. In Andreas Huyssen (ed.) Other Cities; Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age. Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, 99-119.

2008 Practices of Convertibility in Inner City Douala and Johannesburg. In Kamran Adar Ali and Martina Rieker (eds.) Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa. London: Palgrave, 135-168.

2008 The Politics of 'Cityness' in a World of Deals. In Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer (eds.) Networked Cultures: Parallel Architectures and the Politics of Space. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers.

2010 Reaching a Larger World: Muslim Youth and Expanding Circuitries of Operation. In Linda Herrera and Asef Bayat (eds.) Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 188-211.

2011 The Politics of Urban Intersection: Materials, Affect, Bodies. In Gary Bridge and Sophie Watson (eds.) The New Blackwell Companion to the City. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 357-366.

2011 Nation, Modernity, World. In Greig Cryslter, Stephen Cairns, and Hilde Heine (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Architectural Theory. London; New York Sage.

2011 No Longer the Subaltern: Refiguring Cities in the Global South. In Tim Edensor and Mark Jayne (eds.) A World of Cities: Urban Theory Beyond 'the West'. London; New York: Routledge.

2011 Demonstrations at Work: Notes from Urban Africa. In Ray Hutchison and Bruce Haynes (eds.) The Ghetto Reader: Edited collection of contemporary scholarship. Boulder, CO.; New York: Westview Press and Perseus, 245-264.

2012 Urban Screens. In Celia Lury and Nina Wakeford (eds.) Inventive Methods: The Happening of the Social. London; New York: Routledge.

2012 Ghostly Crack and Urban Deceptions: Jakarta. In Mohsen Mostafavi (ed.) In the Life of Cities: Parallel Narratives of the Urban. Harvard Graduate School of Design and Lars Muller Publishers.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

2001 Straddling the Divides: Remaking Associational Life in the Informal African City. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25: 102-117.

2001 Africities: Popular Engagements of the Urban in Contemporary Africa. Space and Culture 8-9: 252-261.

2001 On the Worlding of African Cities. African Studies Review 44: 15-41.

2004 People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg. Public Culture 16: 407-429.