Ross E. Adams - Circulation and Urbanization

The Society and Space series explores the fascinating relationship between the spatial and the social. Each title draws on a range of modern and historical theories to offer important insights into the key cultural and political topics of our times, including migration, globalisation, race, gender, sexuality and technology. These stimulating and provocative books combine high intellectual standards with contemporary appeal for students of politics, international relations, sociology, philosophy, and human geography.

Series Editor: Professor Stuart Elden, University of Warwick

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Like so many intellectual endeavours, this book came into being through a combination of intention and interjection. So many people, events, books, artefacts, arguments and fragments of knowledge, the whole of which I count as a kind of core knot that holds this work together, entered into this project through chance encounter. Realizing this is both arresting and reassuring arresting in how a book reveals itself as an intellectual map of those with whom I have shared friendships and those who have inspired me; and reassuring in the widespread generosity that such a map reflects, especially in times when academic work is an increasingly individuated and entrepreneurial form of labour.

The guidance, support and advice from many people and institutions, over the course of many years, stands in sharp contrast to this tendency. I would like to thank all those who have contributed to the development of this work either intellectually, pragmatically, emotionally or all of the above. Rory Rowan deserves special thanks for all the lengthy discussions, comments and critiques of this work that he offered as it first took shape. Friends and colleagues who in one way or another left an indelible mark on this work: Adrian Lahoud, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Douglas Spencer, Platon Issaias, Aristide Antonas, Neil Brenner, Nikos Katsikis, Milica Topolovic, Thanos Zartaloudis, Maria Giudicci, Joana Rafael, Tom Vandeputte, Murray Fraser, David Cunningham, Christopher Gonzales Crane, Jacob Dreyer, Sami Jalili, Raphalle Burns, Marko Daniel, Tom McCarthy, Anne Hultzsch, Pedro Alonso, Timothy Ivison, Julia Tcharfas, Marina Lathouri and Dubravka Sekulic. Special thanks to Reinhold Martin and Alex Loftus for their exhaustive and inestimable readings of this text at a pivotal moment of its development as well as to Stuart Elden for all of his help and support throughout the writing of the manuscript. Much appreciation to John Nightingale and Robert Rojek at SAGE for their work in organizing the production of this book, as well as to Louise Smith and Caroline Watson for their scrupulous copy-editing work. To the unnamed reviewers of this manuscript, who provided sharp and thoughtful feedback, I am in your debt. Thanks as well to Bas Princen for allowing me to grace the cover of this volume with his incredible photograph.

Many others have been significant interlocutors in the development of this work, inviting lengthy conversation, opening space for me to share parts of it or situating it in new and unexpected contexts. To Francesco Sebregondi, Dele Adeyemo, Christina Sharpe, Andrea Bagnato, Nida Rehman, Azadeh Mashayekhi, Susan Schupli, Claudia Aradau, Martina Tazzioli, Anita Rupprecht, Shehab Ismail, Eyal Weizmann, Hamed Khosravi, Danilo Mandic, Jelena Stojkovic, James Scott, Ayala Levin, Abdoumaliq Simone, Kenny Cupers, Max Viatori, Albert Pope, Antonio Petrov, Charles Rice, Rania Ghosn, El Hadi Jazairi, Renia Kagkou, Martn Arboleda, Mariano Gomez Luque, lvaro Sevilla Buitrago, Paolo Tavares, Beth Hughes, Davide Sacconi, Emily McCarthy, Emma Letizia Jones, Alex Vougia, Mark Campbell, Parveen Adams, Ilona Sagar, Connor Linsky, Elia Zenghelis, Teresa Stoppani, Giorgio Ponzo, Matthew Gandy, Maros Krivy, Emily Scott, Tianhui Hou and Boya Guo, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi, Rachel Lee, Stephen Graham, Marwan Ghandour, Deborah Hauptmann, Felicity Scott, Samaneh Moafi, Godofredo Pereira, Lorenzo Pezzani, Montserrat Bonvehi: I have learned a great deal from you all. Included in this particular list are the many brilliant students Ive had the pleasure to think with at Iowa State University, the Bartlett, UCL and in the Architectural Association, whose intuition and energy continues to inspire new approaches to my work.

A special note of gratitude must be mentioned for the academic generosity displayed by those who have edited my work, either professionally or as guest editors. You have not only helped me develop clarity in my writing, but you have also helped bring this project into conversation with different intellectual milieus, broadening its scope and opening it out to new valences of thought. Thanks to Cynthia Davidson, James Graham, Nick Axel, Jack Self, Natalie Oswin, Stephanie Wakefield, Bruce Braun, Phillip Steinberg, Elaine Stratford, Kimberly Anne Peters, Nadir Lahiji, Helena Mattsson, Catharina Gabrielsson, Ed Wall and Tim Waterman.