Urban Revolutions: Urbanisation and (Neo-)Colonialism in Transatlantic Context (Book Talk)

Prof. Stefan Kipfer (York University, Toronto)

Discussants: Dr. Andy Davies and Dr. Amal Abu-Bakare

Tuesday 14th November 2023, 3pm

Roxby Building, Room 101  

What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows how these struggles force us to understand the (neo-)colonial aspects of capitalist urbanization in a comparatively and historically nuanced fashion. In so doing, he demonstrates that urban research can offer a rich, if uneven, terrain upon which to develop the relationship between Marxist and anti-colonial intellectual traditions. After a detailed dialogue between Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon, Kipfer engages creole literature in the French Antilles, Indigenous radicalism in North America and political anti-racism in mainland France.