Introduction. Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives

Introduction: The Camp and the City

Form and Infrastructure

Infrastructural Form

Comics Collectives as Networked Urban Social Movements

The Image of the Global City

New York, New York: A Brief History of Comics and the City

Five Southern City Case Studies

Chapter 1. Drawing Public Space: Revolutionary Visual Cultures and the Right to the City in Cairo

Introduction: Revolutionary Visual Cultures and Gendered Public Spaces

Egyptian `Comix´, Online and Offline

Urban Cairo in Text and Image

Vision 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 Cities

Chapter 2. Image-Making in the Global City: Eco-Speculative Fictions and Urban Social Movements in Cape Town

Introduction: South African Cartoons, Comix and Co-mixed Visual Cultures

Privatisation, Segregation and Image-Making in the Global City

Afrofuturism, Solarpunk and Water Politics

Flooding the Cape Town `Utopia´

Turning to Townships: Urban Social Movements in Cape Town

Chapter 3. Graphic Katrina: Disaster Capitalism and Tourism Gentrification in New Orleans

Introduction: `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 Cities

Autographics, Art and Activism in Erin Wilson´s Snowbird (2013)

Chapter 4. Comics, Collectives, Collaborations: Engineering Pedestrian and Public Spaces in Delhi

Introduction: The City-as-Circuitboard

`Engineering´ Comics: Orijit Sen and the Pao Collective

World Class Delhi: Politics in the City `Inside-Out´

Pedestrianism and Penmanship in Sarnath Banerjee´s Graphic Narratives

Histories of the Neoliberal Present in Vishwajyoti Ghosh´s Delhi Calm (2010)

Gendering the Right to the City: Women´s Maps, Women´s Lines

Chapter 5. Comics as Infrastructure: Public Space and Post-war Reconstruction in Beirut

Introduction: Post-war Reconstruction in the Neoliberal Era

Weaponised Infrastructure in Wartime Beirut

Rebuilding the City in Zeina Abirached´s Graphic Memoirs

Lamia Ziadé´s Bye Bye Babylon: The City as Witness

Urban Warfare and Civilian Life in Text and Image

New Geographies of Beirut: Samandal as Urban Social Movement

Conclusion. Bordered Forms, Bordered Worlds