Description
In this groundbreaking work, Julie Kleinman chronicles how West Africans use the Gare du Nord to create economic opportunities, confront police harassment, and forge connections to people outside of their communities. Drawing on ten years of ethnographic research, including an internship at the French national railway company, Kleinman reveals how racial inequality is ingrained in the order of Parisian public space. She vividly describes the extraordinary ways that African migrants retool French transit infrastructure to build alternative pathways toward social and economic integration where state institutions have failed. In doing so, these adventurers defy boundaries--between migrant and citizen, center and periphery, neighbor and stranger--that have shaped urban planning and immigration policy. Adventure Capital offers a new understanding of contemporary migration and belonging, capturing the central role that West African migrants play in revitalizing French urban life.
Product Details
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Publish Date | December 03, 2019 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780520304413 |
| Dimensions | 8.9 X 6.0 X 0.7 inches | 0.7 pounds |
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Reviews
"[A] fantastic ethnography"-- "Sociological Review"
"Reframes the way we tend to think about migration, French public space, and about living together and valuable encounters across difference."-- "Journal of Economic and Social Geography"
"Theoretically sophisticated, accessibly written, and ethnographically engaged, Adventure Capital makes an important and timely intervention into the study of migration. . . . The book makes for essential reading for scholars of mobility and contemporary urban life."-- "Political and Legal Anthropology Review"
"A vivid reminder that urban planning and programming is inherently political with far-reaching repercussions on social life. . . . The book is beautifully written and a definite page-turner."-- "Journal of Urban Affairs"
"[S]cholars in the social sciences and humanities will find Kleinman's book extremely valuable. It is beautifully written, engaging, and powerful in delivering its message and argument."-- "International Migration"
"Adventure Capital demonstrates beautifully how the drive for continued mobility arises as much from a position of precariousness as it does from a 'trader's logic' that extols difference and enables connection."-- "Antipode"
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