Urban Comics : Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (Paperback)

PrefaceIntroduction. Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic NarrativesIntroduction: The Camp and the CityForm and InfrastructureInfrastructural FormComics Collectives as Networked Urban Social MovementsThe Image of the Global CityNew York, New York: A Brief History of Comics and the CityFive Southern City Case StudiesChapter 1. Drawing Public Space: Revolutionary Visual Cultures and the Right to the City in CairoIntroduction: Revolutionary Visual Cultures and Gendered Public SpacesEgyptian ‘Comix’, Online and OfflineUrban Cairo in Text and ImageVision 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 CitiesChapter 2. Image-Making in the Global City: Eco-Speculative Fictions and Urban Social Movements in Cape TownIntroduction: South African Cartoons, Comix and Co-mixed Visual CulturesPrivatisation, Segregation and Image-Making in the Global CityAfrofuturism, Solarpunk and Water PoliticsFlooding the Cape Town ‘Utopia’Turning to Townships: Urban Social Movements in Cape TownChapter 3. Graphic Katrina: Disaster Capitalism and Tourism Gentrification in New OrleansIntroduction: ‘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 CitiesAutographics, Art and Activism in Erin Wilson’s Snowbird (2013)Chapter 4. Comics, Collectives, Collaborations: Engineering Pedestrian and Public Spaces in DelhiIntroduction: The City-as-Circuitboard‘Engineering’ Comics: Orijit Sen and the Pao CollectiveWorld Class Delhi: Politics in the City ‘Inside-Out’Pedestrianism and Penmanship in Sarnath Banerjee’s Graphic NarrativesHistories of the Neoliberal Present in Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s Delhi Calm (2010)Gendering the Right to the City: Women’s Maps, Women’s LinesChapter 5. Comics as Infrastructure: Public Space and Post-war Reconstruction in BeirutIntroduction: Post-war Reconstruction in the Neoliberal EraWeaponised Infrastructure in Wartime BeirutRebuilding the City in Zeina Abirached’s Graphic MemoirsLamia Ziade’s Bye Bye Babylon: The City as WitnessUrban Warfare and Civilian Life in Text and ImageNew Geographies of Beirut: Samandal as Urban Social MovementConclusion. Bordered Forms, Bordered Worlds