Postcolonial Urban Studies

douard Glissant and the Whole-World of Cities
Drawing on ideas from postcolonial theory and literary and cultural studies, in particular the work of Martinican poet and thinker douard Glissant, Garth Myers develops a new framework for re-imagining global urban studies.
Drawing on ideas from postcolonial theory and literary and cultural studies Garth Myers develops a new framework for re-imagining global urban studies. This framework is developed in dialogue with the work of Martinican poet and thinker douard Glissant, in particular his collection of essays entitled, Treatise on the Whole-World, which deploys analogy and juxtaposition to elucidate relationality between places.Utilizing this methodology, which is comparative in nature, each chapter is based around a pair of cities through which different themes are explored. The pairings are: Fort de France, Martinique with Zanzibar, Tanzania; the Zambian Copperbelt with Scranton, USA; Kin