Diverse cities fragment movement into countless small exclusions

Evidence

If, as De Certeau insists, moving about the city is an experience “broken up into countless tiny deportations” interspersed with relationships and intersections, after 9/11 the intersections were regulated, the relationships sundered, and the deportations in some cases all too literal. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 268

Categorization

• QUESTION: Morey draws on De Certeau; where exactly does De Certeau’s ‘tiny deportations’ phrasing come from, and how does Morey adapt a benign vision into a 9/11 register?
• XREF: Directly speaks to Home Boy’s New York — Naqvi’s Jamshed Khan and AC as figures channeled through racialized city space post-9/11. — connects to: Urban commuting misery fueled Brazil’s mass protest movements — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 143
• DEFINE: ‘Tiny deportations’ names the mechanism by which ordinary city movement becomes exclusionary.