
Publications of AbdouMaliq Simone
All genres
Book (3)
2019
Book
Improvised lives: rhythms of endurance in an urban South. Polity, Cambridge, UK (2019), vii, 151 pp.
2017
Book
New urban worlds: Inhabiting dissonant times. Polity Press, Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA (2017)
2014
Book
Jakarta: Drawing the city near. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (2014)
Issue (2)
2020
Issue
Dwelling in liminality (Special issue). Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (accepted)
2016
Issue
17, (2) (2016)
The infrastructures of diversity: Materiality and culture in urban space (Special issue). New Diversities Journal Article (24)
2020
Journal Article
24 (1-2), pp. 256 - 262 (2020)
The shift. Islam and the temporalities of contemporary urbanization. City. Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action
Journal Article
44 (4), pp. 755 - 767 (2020)
(Non)Urban humans: Questions for a research agenda (the work the urban could do). International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Journal Article
10 (1), pp. 89 - 92 (2020)
Refrain: Playing with the ensemble, responding to the readers. Dialogues in Human Geography
Journal Article
57 (6), pp. 1127 - 1142 (2020)
To extend: Temporariness in a world of itineraries. Urban Studies
Journal Article
46, pp. 603 - 622 (2020)
Cities of the Global South. Annual Review of Sociology
Journal Article
Majority urban politics and lives worth living in a time of climate emergencies. (submitted)
2019
Journal Article
37 (6), pp. 990 - 1006 (2019)
Maximum exposure: Making sense in the background of extensive urbanization. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Journal Article
43 (6), pp. 1193 - 1208 (2019)
Muslim hoedowns, tenuous language and the uncertain lives of an urban majority. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Journal Article
O inabitável. Revista ECO-Pós (accepted)
Journal Article
A politica da assistência periférica. Revista ECO-Pós (accepted)
2018
Journal Article
50 (1), pp. 23 - 40 (2018)
The urban majority and provisional recompositions in Yangon. The 2016 Antipode RGS‐IBG lecture. Antipode
Journal Article
1 (1), pp. 124 - 135 (2018)
Designing space for the majority: Urban displacements of the human. Cubic Journal
Journal Article
38 (1), pp. 3 - 52 (2018)
Attention to Infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political: The 2015 meeting of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT). Critique of Anthropology 2017
Journal Article
An introduction: Inhabiting the corridor: surging resource economies and urban life in East Asia. Cityscapes: The Corridor, pp. 3 - 5 (2017)
2016
Journal Article
17 (2), pp. 151 - 162 (2016)
Passing things along: (In)completing infrastructure. New Diversities
Journal Article
12 (2), pp. 135 - 154 (2016)
The Uninhabitable? In between collapsed yet still rigid distinctions. Cultural Politics
Journal Article
33 (7-8), pp. 5 - 29 (2016)
City of potentialities: an introduction. Theory, Culture & Society
Journal Article
33 (7-8), pp. 183 - 203 (2016)
Urbanity and generic blackness. Theory, Culture & Society 2015
Journal Article
56 (S11), pp. S15 - S23 (2015)
The urban poor and their ambivalent exceptionalities: Notes from Jakarta. Current Anthropology
Journal Article
23 (2), pp. 227 - 244 (2015)
What you see is not always what you know: Struggles against re-containment and the capacities to remake urban life in Jakarta. South East Asia Research
Journal Article
40 (1), pp. 210 - 218 (2015)
It’s just the city after all. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
Journal Article
19 (2-3), pp. 375 - 383 (2015)
Afterword: Come on out, you're surrounded: The betweens of infrastructure. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action
Journal Article
5 (3), pp. 251 - 256 (2015)
The proof of details. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 2014
Journal Article
38 (4), pp. 1509 - 1524 (2014)
‘We are here alone’: The ironic potentials and vulnerabilities of mixed (up) districts in central Jakarta. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Working Paper (1)
2015
Working Paper
The uninhabitable? An essay on “Regions”. MMG Working Paper (15-04) (2015), 36 pp.
Contribution to a Collected edition (17)
2024
Contribution to a Collected edition
2, pp. 215 - 228 (Eds. Bobic, N.; Haghighi, F.). Taylor & Francis Group, New York (2024)
The surrounds: Configuring urban spaces beyond capture. In: The Routledge handbook of architecture, urban space and politics, Volume II: Ecology, social participation and marginalities, Vol. 2019
Contribution to a Collected edition
The politics of increments in collective urban action. In: Routledge of Handbook of Urbanisation in Southeast Asia, pp. 64 - 74 (Ed. Padawangi, R.). Routledge, London (2019)
Contribution to a Collected edition
Relational economies. In: The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia on Urban and Regional Studies (Ed. Orum, A. M.). Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA (2019)
Contribution to a Collected edition
On hold. In: Shaping Cities in an Urban Age (Eds. Burdett, R.; Rode, P.). Phaidon, London (2019)
2018
Contribution to a Collected edition
The majority world and the politics of everyday living in Southeast Asia. In: The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City, pp. 399 - 415 (Eds. Hall, S.; Burdett, R.). Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA (2018)
Contribution to a Collected edition
Precarious detachment: youth modes of operating in Hyderabad and Jakata. In: Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City (Ed. Low, S.). Routledge, London (2018)
Contribution to a Collected edition
Living as logistics: Tenuous struggles in the remaking of collective. In: Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South (Eds. Bahn, G.; Srinivas, S.; Watson, V.). Routledge, London (2018)
Contribution to a Collected edition
Inoperable relations and urban change in the global South. In: The Global South and Literature, pp. 123 - 133 (Ed. West-Pavlov, R.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2018)
Contribution to a Collected edition
Detachment down South: on salvage operations and city-making. In: South and north: contemporary urban orientations, pp. 23 - 41 (Eds. Bystrom, K.; Harris, A.; Webber, A. J.). Routledge, London (2018)
2016
Contribution to a Collected edition
Sociability and Endurance in Jakarta. In: Deleuze and the City, pp. 224 - 240 (Eds. Frichot, .; Gabrielsson, C.; Metzger, J.). Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh (2016)
Contribution to a Collected edition
Cities that are just cities. In: Rethinking life at the margins: The assemblage of contexts, subjects, and politics, pp. 76 - 88 (Ed. Lancione, M.). Routledge, London (2016)
Contribution to a Collected edition
Rough towns: Mobilizing uncertainty in Kinshasa. In: African Futures: Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility, pp. 139 - 150 (Ed. Goldstone, B.). The University of Chicago Press, Chicago (2016)
Contribution to a Collected edition
The generic city: Examples from Jakarta, Indonesia and Maputo, Mozambique. In: Infrastructures and social complexity: a companion, pp. 128 - 140 (Eds. Harvey, P.; Jensen, C. B.; Morita, A.). Routledge, London (2016)
2014
Contribution to a Collected edition
Relational infrastructure in postcolonial urban worlds. In: Infrastructural lives: Urban infrastructure in context, pp. 17 - 38 (Eds. Graham, S.; McFarlane, C.). Routledge, London (2014)
Contribution to a Collected edition
Too many things to do: Social dimensions of city-making in Africa. In: The arts of citizenship in African cities: Infrastructures and spaces of belonging, pp. 25 - 47 (Eds. Diouf, M.; Fredericks, R.). Palgrave Macmillan, New York (2014)
Contribution to a Collected edition
Infrastructure, real economies and social transformation: assembling the components for regional urban development in Africa. In: Africa's urban revolution, pp. 221 - 236 (Eds. Parnell, S.; Pieterse, E.). Zed Book, London (2014)
Contribution to a Collected edition
The missing people: Reflections on an urban majority in cities of the South. In: The Routledge handbook on cities of the global South, pp. 322 - 325 (Eds. Parnell, S.; Oldfield, S.). Routledge, London (2014)