Fabien Cante
Biographic Data
| ID | 174357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fabien Cante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fabien |
| FAMILY NAME | Cante |
| SIGNATURE | CANTE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3871-6317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Convivial atmotechnics
This article draws on ethnographic work with tour guides in Kingston and local radio animateurs in Abidjan to document their "atmotechnics" - the practices through which they enliven urban atmospheres. Through cross-contextual juxtapositions, we delve into the relational intricacies and contextual variegation of atmotechnics. Crucially, we point to their complexity and significance in cities whose atmospheres are fractured by racialized socio-eco…
On Urban Re‐arrangements
This movement introduces the ethos of the collective project: its conceptual and practical preoccupations. It focuses on our concern with urban processes on the cusp of change, in the midst of being re‐arranged, and thus homes in on the various polyrhythms of intersections, how things come together and diverge, how possibilities open and close in urban contexts of continuously shifting horizons
Movement 5. Sensing the Affective Lives of Arrangements
This final movement explores whether thinking with re‐arrangements can help us account for that which is hidden, unseen or nested in the recesses and folds of urban practices. And if so, how we might then talk about and account for elusive parts of an arrangement that both exert an influence and are influenced. This essay uses sensibilities as an entry point into the intangible interactions between subjects and (re)arrangements
Movement 3. Navigating Urban Arrangements
The third movement explores how (re)arrangements are made and re‐worked as people navigate fractured, ever‐shifting landscapes of urban opportunity, conflict and uncertainty. Drawing on fieldwork in Paris, Mogadishu and Abidjan, we point to the fragile, collective and anticipatory knowledges accumulated during navigations, and to how these knowledges become contained within and (re)constitute embodied archives
Movement 2. Formalizing Arrangements
The second movement considers (re)arrangements as projects of formalization that seek to impose and even fix a form to spaces historically constructed as marginal. This impositional arrangement operates as a governmental desire to fix a form by re‐signifying both subjects and spaces
Movement 4. Breath Sigh Tempest
The fourth movement explores the temporal relationship between arrangements and re‐arrangements, addressing the question of how an obdurate and ‘sticky’ temporal order may give way to palpable re‐arrangement of the ways in which subjects experience time. Eschewing a concern with linear homogenous time, it addresses the processes of re‐arrangement by understanding the dynamics of grave events, hauntings of the past, subtly changing rhythms of ever…
Everyday peace in a ‘post‐conflict’ African metropolis
Drawing on the ethnography of a multi‐ethnic local radio listeners' club in post‐war Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the article provides an original account of everyday peace in an African metropolis. It bridges peace geographies and African urban studies to document the informal and often invisibilised practices through which residents re‐make the city in the wake of war. In doing so, the article expands existing understandings of everyday peace while …
Attuning to Opacity
This article examines how local radio producers in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire made sense of audiences' refusals to speak on the airwaves in the aftermath of armed conflict (1999-2O11). Since the 199Os, local or "proximity" broadcasting has materialized contests over popular expression in Côte d'Ivoire. After 2O11, local stations also crystallized expectations and anxieties over the role of popular voice in peacebuilding. Drawing on scholarship linkin…
Mediating anti-political peace in Abidjan
From ‘animation’ to encounter
Drawing upon ethnographic research on community radio in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, this article argues that tracking production practices outside of the studio allows researchers to better capture radio’s entanglements with everyday urban life. This spatial reconsideration mirrors a conceptual move beyond community media labels and normative criteria, towards a privileging of context. To illustrate both points, the article centres around ‘animation…
Everyday peace in a ‘post‐conflict’ African metropolis
Drawing on the ethnography of a multi‐ethnic local radio listeners' club in post‐war Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the article provides an original account of everyday peace in an African metropolis. It bridges peace geographies and African urban studies to document the informal and often invisibilised practices through which residents re‐make the city in the wake of war. In doing so, the article expands existing understandings of everyday peace while …
Mediating anti-political peace in Abidjan
Movement 3. Navigating Urban Arrangements
The third movement explores how (re)arrangements are made and re‐worked as people navigate fractured, ever‐shifting landscapes of urban opportunity, conflict and uncertainty. Drawing on fieldwork in Paris, Mogadishu and Abidjan, we point to the fragile, collective and anticipatory knowledges accumulated during navigations, and to how these knowledges become contained within and (re)constitute embodied archives
From ‘animation’ to encounter
Drawing upon ethnographic research on community radio in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, this article argues that tracking production practices outside of the studio allows researchers to better capture radio’s entanglements with everyday urban life. This spatial reconsideration mirrors a conceptual move beyond community media labels and normative criteria, towards a privileging of context. To illustrate both points, the article centres around ‘animation…
On Urban Re‐arrangements
This movement introduces the ethos of the collective project: its conceptual and practical preoccupations. It focuses on our concern with urban processes on the cusp of change, in the midst of being re‐arranged, and thus homes in on the various polyrhythms of intersections, how things come together and diverge, how possibilities open and close in urban contexts of continuously shifting horizons
Movement 2. Formalizing Arrangements
The second movement considers (re)arrangements as projects of formalization that seek to impose and even fix a form to spaces historically constructed as marginal. This impositional arrangement operates as a governmental desire to fix a form by re‐signifying both subjects and spaces
Attuning to Opacity
This article examines how local radio producers in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire made sense of audiences' refusals to speak on the airwaves in the aftermath of armed conflict (1999-2O11). Since the 199Os, local or "proximity" broadcasting has materialized contests over popular expression in Côte d'Ivoire. After 2O11, local stations also crystallized expectations and anxieties over the role of popular voice in peacebuilding. Drawing on scholarship linkin…
From ‘animation’ to encounter
Drawing upon ethnographic research on community radio in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, this article argues that tracking production practices outside of the studio allows researchers to better capture radio’s entanglements with everyday urban life. This spatial reconsideration mirrors a conceptual move beyond community media labels and normative criteria, towards a privileging of context. To illustrate both points, the article centres around ‘animation…
Mediating anti-political peace in Abidjan
On Urban Re‐arrangements
This movement introduces the ethos of the collective project: its conceptual and practical preoccupations. It focuses on our concern with urban processes on the cusp of change, in the midst of being re‐arranged, and thus homes in on the various polyrhythms of intersections, how things come together and diverge, how possibilities open and close in urban contexts of continuously shifting horizons
Movement 5. Sensing the Affective Lives of Arrangements
This final movement explores whether thinking with re‐arrangements can help us account for that which is hidden, unseen or nested in the recesses and folds of urban practices. And if so, how we might then talk about and account for elusive parts of an arrangement that both exert an influence and are influenced. This essay uses sensibilities as an entry point into the intangible interactions between subjects and (re)arrangements
Movement 3. Navigating Urban Arrangements
The third movement explores how (re)arrangements are made and re‐worked as people navigate fractured, ever‐shifting landscapes of urban opportunity, conflict and uncertainty. Drawing on fieldwork in Paris, Mogadishu and Abidjan, we point to the fragile, collective and anticipatory knowledges accumulated during navigations, and to how these knowledges become contained within and (re)constitute embodied archives
Movement 2. Formalizing Arrangements
The second movement considers (re)arrangements as projects of formalization that seek to impose and even fix a form to spaces historically constructed as marginal. This impositional arrangement operates as a governmental desire to fix a form by re‐signifying both subjects and spaces
Movement 4. Breath Sigh Tempest
The fourth movement explores the temporal relationship between arrangements and re‐arrangements, addressing the question of how an obdurate and ‘sticky’ temporal order may give way to palpable re‐arrangement of the ways in which subjects experience time. Eschewing a concern with linear homogenous time, it addresses the processes of re‐arrangement by understanding the dynamics of grave events, hauntings of the past, subtly changing rhythms of ever…
Everyday peace in a ‘post‐conflict’ African metropolis
Drawing on the ethnography of a multi‐ethnic local radio listeners' club in post‐war Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the article provides an original account of everyday peace in an African metropolis. It bridges peace geographies and African urban studies to document the informal and often invisibilised practices through which residents re‐make the city in the wake of war. In doing so, the article expands existing understandings of everyday peace while …
Attuning to Opacity
This article examines how local radio producers in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire made sense of audiences' refusals to speak on the airwaves in the aftermath of armed conflict (1999-2O11). Since the 199Os, local or "proximity" broadcasting has materialized contests over popular expression in Côte d'Ivoire. After 2O11, local stations also crystallized expectations and anxieties over the role of popular voice in peacebuilding. Drawing on scholarship linkin…
Convivial atmotechnics
This article draws on ethnographic work with tour guides in Kingston and local radio animateurs in Abidjan to document their "atmotechnics" - the practices through which they enliven urban atmospheres. Through cross-contextual juxtapositions, we delve into the relational intricacies and contextual variegation of atmotechnics. Crucially, we point to their complexity and significance in cities whose atmospheres are fractured by racialized socio-eco…
Sociology (10 works) · Art (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Movement (music (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works)