Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound

by Natasha Ginwala (Editor), Gal Kirn (Editor), Niloufar Tajeri (Editor)

The riot is an extraordinary setting that has played a pivotal role in the permanent confrontation between dissent and power over centuries. The deeper crises of capitalism, racial violence, and communal tensions have convulsed us into an "age of riots." As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode and hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed only serves to reveal the cracks in governability, Nights of the Dispossessed brings together artistic works, political texts, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to "sense," chronicle, and think through recent riots and uprisings--evoking a phenomenology of the multitude of surplus population.

With contributions from Asef Bayat, Joshua Clover, Vaginal Davis, Zena Edwards, Dilip Gaonkar, Gauri Gill, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Louis Henderson, Satch Hoyt, Dariouche Tehrani, L�opold Lambert, Margit Mayer, Ai Ogawa, Oana P�rvan, Elizabeth Povinelli, Thomas Seibert, Chandraguptha Thenuwara, and Ala Younis.

432 pages, Paperback

Published July 20, 2021

Reviews

[Avery Marley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nights of the Dispossessed: Riots Unbound is a powerful, interdisciplinary exploration of riots as political, social, and aesthetic forces rather than mere outbreaks of disorder. Bringing together voices from art, theory, and urban analysis, the book captures the lived intensity of uprisings while rigorously interrogating power, dispossession, and governability. Urgent and illuminating, it feels essential to understanding our current “age of riots.”