The peripheries of this book are a question, not a given, the answers to which are contingent forms assembled around embodied identities. Peripheries are urban fringes, periphery countries in the modern world-system, Indigenous lands, occupied territories, or the peripheries of authoritative knowledge, among others. No form can exist outside historical relations of power enacted through knowledge, political structures, laws, and regulations.

Special thanks to @futurehistorieslab and our academic advisors @tprcaldeira and Winnie Wong

Contributions by:
– Giuseppina Forte (Intro) “Peripheries”
– Kuan Hwa (Intro) “Embodiment”
– @stephenajadi (Abuja) “Durumi Camp, Abuja: conflict and the spatial praxes of a furtive-periphery”
– Hanna Baumann (East Jerusalem) “Moving from the margins: Palestinian mobilities, embodiment, and agency in East Jerusalem”
– Matthew Richmond and Moisés Kopper (São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro) “Walling the peripheries: porous condominiums at Brazil’s urban margins”
– Francesco Pasta (Istanbul) “Fikirtepe in limbo: urban transformation, cross-border migration, and re-peripheralization in Istanbul”
– Diego Caro (Hong Kong) “Hidden music scenes: governmentality and contestation in postcolonial Hong Kong
– Samuel Novacich (Rio de Janeiro) “Makeup and marquinha: aesthetics of the bodily surface in Rio de Janeiro”
– Anna Jayne Kimmel (Marseille) “Of the spaces between: prepositional events throughout the Festival de Marseille”
– Fabrizia Cannella (Naples) “Femminielli and the city: urban space and non-binary gender identities in Naples”
– Sarth Khare (Guargon) “Gurgaon: Unfinished City, a photographic essay”
– David Exumé (New York) “Haitians live for news”
– Jeroen Stevens (São Paulo) “Central occupations: stills from a city in movement”
– Noritaka Minami (California City) “California City (real estate) and California City (wonderland)”

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