Making urban theory : learning and unlearning through Southern cities
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Making urban theory : learning and unlearning through Southern cities
（Routledge research on decoloniality and new postcolonialisms）
Routledge, 2020
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [106]-121) and index
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Description
This book facilitates more careful engagement with the production, politics and geography of knowledge as scholars create space for the inclusion of southern cities in urban theory.
Making Urban Theory addresses debates of the past fifty years regarding whether and why scholars should conceptualize southern cities as different and argues for the continued importance of unlearning existing theory. With examples from the urban question to environmental justice, urban infrastructure to basic income, this volume highlights the limitations of existing explanations as well as how thinking from the south entails more than collecting data in new places. Throughout the book, instances of juxtapositions, unease, unlearning and learning anew emphasize how theory-making from southern cases can open avenues to more creative possibilities. The book pulls theories apart, examining distinct components to better understand the universality and provinciality of empirical phenomena, causality and norms, including questions of what a city is and ought to be.
This book delivers a clearer articulation of ongoing debates and future possibilities for southern urban scholarship, and it will thus be relevant for both scholars and students of Urban Studies, Urban Theory, Urban Geography, Research Methods in Geography, Postcolonial/Southern Cities and Global Cities at graduate and post-graduate levels.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1: Postcolonialism and urban studies: Shifting the gaze from the city to the academy
- 2. Disambiguating the southern urban critique with Yaffa Truelove
- 3. Provincializing the urban question: Against the rural-in-the-urban
- 4. The struggle for the city, and the struggle for the right to be city with Anesu Makina
- 5. Teaching urban geography after the southern urban critique with Lene Le Roux
- 6: Pathways forward: Urban studies after the southern urban critique? with Yaffa Truelove
- 7: Unbundling urban theory: Of what is theory made? with Lene Le Roux
- 8: Theorizing anew through southern cities
- 9: Recognizing and reworking the norms that travel with theory
- Conclusion
- Index
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