Planned Violence

Chapter 1 Planned Violence: Post/Colonial Urban Infrastructures, Literature and Culture

Chapter 2 White Cities, Black Streets: Planned Violence and Native Maps in Richard Wright’s Chicago and Modikwe Dikobe’s Johannesburg

Chapter 3 Grey Space, Tahrir Laser: Conspiracy, Critique and the Urban in Julie Mehretu’s Depictions of Revolutionary Cairo

Chapter 4 Thames Valley Royal (or, Maxwell in Oxford): The Story of a Football Club and the History of a City

Chapter 5 Slums and the Postcolonial Uncanny

Chapter 6 The Not-so-Quiet Violence of Bricks and Mortar

Chapter 7 Intervention I. What You Find in the River: Isolarion Ten Years On

Chapter 8 The Intimacy of Infrastructure: Vulnerability and Abjection in Palestinian Jerusalem

Chapter 9 Sound Systems and Other Systems: The Policing of Urban Aesthetic Spaces in the Poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson

Chapter 10 ‘Throwing Petrol on the Fire’: Writing in the Shadow of the Belfast Urban Motorway

Chapter 11 Writing the City and Indian English Fiction: Planning, Violence, and Aesthetics

Chapter 12 Blue Johannesburg

Chapter 13 Intervention II. Take Me There

Chapter 14 ‘A Shadow Class Condemned to Movement’: Literary Urban Imaginings of Illegal Migrant Lives in the Global North

Chapter 15 ‘A Dagger, a Revolver, a Bottle of Chloroform’: Colonial Spy Fiction, Revolutionary Reminiscences and Indian Nationalist Terrorism in Europe

Chapter 16 Detecting World-Literature: (Sub-)Urban Crimes in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 17 Weird Collocations: Language as Infrastructure in the Storyworlds of China Miéville

Chapter 18 Aquacity Versus Austerity: The Politics and Poetics of Irish Water

Chapter 19 Intervention III. Control

Chapter 20 Afterword