Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality

Julie Cupples is Professor of Human Geography and Cultural Studies at the University of Edinburgh.Tom Slater is Reader in Urban Geography at the University of Edinburgh.

• Acknowledgements1. Introduction: Producing and Contesting Urban Marginality, Tom Slater Part 1: Conceptual Terrains2. An Explanatory or Mystifying Concept? The Use Value of Gentrification Theory, Edwar Calderon, Neil Gray, Hamish Kallin, and Ebru Soytemel3. Oscillations in Housing Policy: Comparative Urbanism Across Delhi and Rio de Janeiro, Héctor Becerril Miranda and Kavita Ramakrishnan4. The Calais Jungle: A City In-between Urban Worlds, Oli MouldPart 2: Everyday Marginalities5. Contrasting ‘Ghetto’ Pride: A Comparison of the Sense of Belonging for People who Live Outside of their Local Neighbourhoods: London and Mexico City, César Rebolledo and Joy White6. Music Neotribes: Moving from the Margins, Catherine Wilkinson and Joseline Vega7. Popular Religiosity and Struggles for Urban Justice in Mexico: A Decolonial Analysis of Santa Muerte, Julie Cupples and Kevin GlynnPart 3: Marginality by Design and Designing out Marginality8. Cultural Marginality and Urban Place

Critical, wide-ranging and committed to theoretical and epistemic openness and plurality, this insightful book is more than a collection of essays about urban marginality. It offers a refreshing contribution to the North-South debate in urban theory, and exemplifies precisely the kind of approaches we need to develop theoretically-open, critically-informed and politically-engaged scholarship. This book should be read by anyone interested in and concerned about the present and future of urban lives.