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Global Urbanism Knowledge, Power and the City
Global Urbanism is an experimental examination of how urban scholars and activists make sense of, and act upon, the foundational relationship between the ‘global’ and the ‘urban’.
What does it mean to say that we live in a global-urban moment, and what are its implications? Refusing all-encompassing answers, the book grounds this question, exploring the plurality of understandings, definitions, and ways of researching global urbanism through the lenses of varied contributors from different parts of the world. The contributors explore what global urbanism means to them, in their context, from the ground and the struggles upon which they are working and living. The book argues for an incremental, fragile and in-the-making emancipatory urban thinking. The contributions provide the resources to help make sense of what global urbanism is in its varieties, what’s at stake in it, how to research it, and what needs to change for more progressive urban futures. It provides a heterodox set of approaches and theorisations to probe and provoke rather than aiming to draw a line under a complex, changing and profoundly contested set of global-urban processes.
Global Urbanism is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students in geography, sociology, planning, anthropology and the field of urban studies, for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines and practices which converge in the study of urbanism.
Chapter 36 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429259593
1. Introduction
1. Navigating the global-urban - Lancione and McFarlane
2. Rethinking global urbanisms
2. Thinking urban grammars: An interview with Ash Amin
3. Decentering global urbanism: An interview with Ananya Roy
4. Hinterlands of the Capitalocene
Neil Brenner and Nikos Katsikis
5. Making space for queer desire in global urbanism
Gavin Brown and Dhiren Borisa
6. Seeing like an Italian city: questioning global urbanism from an “in-between space” in Turin
Francesca Governa
7. Theorising from where? Reflections on De-centring Global (Southern) Urbanism
Hyun Bang Shin
8. Globalizing Postsocialist Urbanism
Liviu Chelcea, Slavomíra Ferenčuhová and Gruia Bădescu
9. Beyond the Noosphere? Northern England’s ‘Left Behind’ Urbanism
John Flint and Ryan Powell
10. Footnote urbanism: the missing East in (not so) global urbanism
Martin Müller
11. Comparative urbanism and global urban studies: theorising the urban
Jennifer Robinson
3. Everyday global urbanisms
12. Global Urbanism Inside/Out: Thinking Through Jakarta
Helga Leitner and Eric Sheppard
13. Tiwa’s morning
Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin and Linda Peake
14. “Out there, over the hills, on the other side of the tracks”: a horizon of the global urban
AbdouMaliq Simone
15. Constructing the Southeast Asian Ascent: Global Vertical Urbanisms of Brick and Sand
William Jamieson, Katherine Brickell, Nithya Natarajan and Laurie Parsons
16. Nairobi City, Streets and Stories: Young lives stay in place while going global through digital stages
Tatiana Thieme
17. Rethinking global urbanism from a ‘fripe’ marketplace in Tunis
Katharina Grüneisl
18. Liminal spaces and resistance in Mexico City: towards an everyday global urbanism
Alicia Lindón
19. Death and the City. Necrological Notes from Kinshasa
Filip De Boeck
20. Pathways toward a dialectical urbanism: thinking with the contingencies of crisis, care and Capitalism
Suraya Scheba
21. Global self-urbanism: self-organisation amidst the regulatory crisis and uneven urban citizenship
Francesco Chiodelli and Margherita Grazioli
4. Governing global urbanisms
22. Unlocking political potentialities
Edgar Pieterse
23. Climate Changed Urbanism?
Harriet Bulkeley, Laura Tozer and Emma Lecavalier
24. The global urban condition and politics of thermal metabolics: the chilling prospect of killer heat
Simon Marvin
25. On the deployment of scientific knowledge for the new urbanism of the Anthropocene
Vanesa Castán Broto
26. Global cities and bioeconomy of health innovation
Donald McNeill
27. Hacking the Urban Code: Notes on Durational Imagination in City-Making
Swati Chattopadhyay
28. Global Urbanism: urban governance innovation in/for a world of cities
Pauline McGuirk
29. Corridor Urbanism
Jonathan Silver
30. Beyond-the-network Urbanism: Everyday Infrastructures in States of Mutation
Yaffa Truelove
31. Still construction and already ruin
Mariana Cavalcanti
32. The Migration of Spaces: Monumental Urbanism Beyond Materiality
Morten Nielsen
33. Land as situated spatio-histories: A dialogue with Global Urbanism
Wing Shing Tang and Solomon Benjamin
5. Contesting global urbanism
34. Women organising, advocacy and Indian cities in-between informal dwelling and informal economies: and interview with SEWA’s Renana Jhabvala
35. From a Neapolitan perspective, reaching out beyond prevailing cultural models: an interview with Emma Ferulano
36. Urban struggles and theorising from Eastern European cities: a collective interview with Ana Vilenica, Ioana Florea, Veda Popovici and Zsuzsi Pósfai
37. Planning, community spaces and youth urban futures: from Accra, in conversation with Victoria Okoye and Yussif Larry Aminu
38. A Counter-Dominant Global Urbanism? Experiments from Lebanon
Mona Harb
39. Living in the city beyond housing: urbanism of the commons
Belen Desmaison
Biography
Michele Lancione is Professor of Geography at the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, and Visiting Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. He is a member of the Common Front for Housing Rights (Bucharest), co-founder and editor of the Radical Housing Journal and corresponding editor at IJURR. His work focuses on radical forms of inhabitation and housing struggles (through a five-year European Research Council project) and the politics of life at the margins in the contemporary urban.
Colin McFarlane is Professor of Geography at Durham University, United Kingdom. His current work is on the politics and experience of urban densities (through a European Research Council project), the relationship between urban waste and life in the city, thinking the city through the idea of the fragment and the potentials for urban equalities (through a Global Challenges Research Fund project led by University College London).
"Part comprehensive kaleidoscope, part exhaustive catalogue, part praxis-based provocation, this collection of present-day urban thought is a powerful wellspring producing generative modes of explanation of what urban life entails in the 21st century. Global Urbanism will serve as a guidepost for how we reflect about and act upon urbanization for the foreseeable future."
Professor Roger Keil, York University, Canada
"For critical urban thinkers, Lancione and McFarlane’s book poses an urgent prompt: ‘global urbanism’. In seeking scholarly responses, the editors facilitate for its primary readers—graduate students, pedagogues, and scholars of urban inquiry—room for them to sit and work with many voices and stories of urbanisms worldwide."
Chan Arun-Pina, Urbanisation
