Urban comics : infrastructure and the global city in contemporary graphic narratives /: infrastructure and the global city in contemporary graphic narratives. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dominic Davies.
• Authors: Davies, Dominic, 1988-
• Contents: Preface Introduction. Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives Introduction: The Camp and the City Form and Infrastructure Infrastructural Form Comics Collectives as Networked Urban Social Movements The Image of the Global City New York, New York: A Brief History of Comics and the City Five Southern City Case Studies Chapter 1. Drawing Public Space: Revolutionary Visual Cultures and the Right to the City in Cairo Introduction: Revolutionary Visual Cultures and Gendered Public Spaces Egyptian ‘Comix’, Online and Offline Urban Cairo in Text and Image Vision and Visibility in Magdy El Shafee’s Metro (2008) Volume and Verticality in Deena Mohamed’s Qahera, the Webcomic, Not the City (2013-2015) Building Comics, Building Cities Chapter 2. Image-Making in the Global City: Eco-Speculative Fictions and Urban Social Movements in Cape Town Introduction: South African Cartoons, Comix and Co-mixed Visual Cultures Privatisation, Segregation and Image-Making in the Global City Afrofuturism, Solarpunk and Water Politics Flooding the Cape Town ‘Utopia’ Turning to Townships: Urban Social Movements in Cape Town ; Chapter 3. Graphic Katrina: Disaster Capitalism and Tourism Gentrification in New Orleans Introduction: ‘There’s No Such Thing As A Natural Disaster’ Voyeurism and Voluntourism in the ‘Drowned City’ Vertical Perspectives in Josh Neufeld’s A.D. New Orleans After the Deluge (2009) Comics and Zines in New Orleans: Gentrifying Forms, DIY Cities Autographics, Art and Activism in Erin Wilson’s Snowbird (2013) Chapter 4. Comics, Collectives, Collaborations: Engineering Pedestrian and Public Spaces in Delhi Introduction: The City-as-Circuitboard ‘Engineering’ Comics: Orijit Sen and the Pao Collective World Class Delhi: Politics in the City ‘Inside-Out’ Pedestrianism and Penmanship in Sarnath Banerjee’s Graphic Narratives Histories of the Neoliberal Present in Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s Delhi Calm (2010) Gendering the Right to the City: Women’s Maps, Women’s Lines Chapter 5. Comics as Infrastructure: Public Space and Post-war Reconstruction in Beirut Introduction: Post-war Reconstruction in the Neoliberal Era Weaponised Infrastructure in Wartime Beirut Rebuilding the City in Zeina Abirached’s Graphic Memoirs Lamia Ziadé’s Bye Bye Babylon : The City as Witness Urban Warfare and Civilian Life in Text and Image New Geographies of Beirut: Samandal as Urban Social Movement Conclusion. Bordered Forms, Bordered Worlds
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 741.59; Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism; Graphic novels -- History and criticism; Cities and towns in literature; Public spaces in literature; Infrastructure (Economics) in literature; Narration (Rhetoric)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351054485; 9781351054508; 9781351054478; 9781351054492
• Related ISBNs: 9781138483583
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