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Comparative Urbanism de Jennifer Robinson

Comparative Urbanism

Autor Jennifer Robinson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 iul 2022

Jennifer Robinson, figură centrală în geografia contemporană, revine cu o lucrare ce extinde fundamentele teoretice stabilite în Ordinary Cities. Observăm în Comparative Urbanism o rafinare a criticii postcoloniale, autoarea propunând instrumente conceptuale și metodologice care să elimine etichetele ce desemnează unele orașe drept paradigmatice, iar pe altele drept simple copii. Cercetarea sa, publicată în seria IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series la John Wiley & Sons, Inc., se distinge printr-o rigoare academică ce vizează reformatarea practicii comparative la scară globală. Suntem de părere că această ediție reușește să recalibreze perspectivele teoretice uzuale prin introducerea unor „tactici” specifice pentru secolul XXI. Cartea acoperă o arie tematică similară cu The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies, dar cu o abordare mai experimentală și mai strâns ancorată în deconstrucția binarității dintre Nordul și Sudul Global. În timp ce manualul editat de Patrick le Galès consolidează domeniul, lucrarea lui Robinson oferă un cadru metodologic flexibil, menit să permită studiul urban oriunde, fără a depinde de modelele occidentale predefinite. Structura volumului reflectă o progresie logică, pornind de la „Reformatting Comparison” și examinând critic modurile de cunoaștere a urbanului global. În capitolele dedicate arhivelor și conexiunilor, Jennifer Robinson demonstrează cum diversitatea realităților urbane poate genera noi teorii, nu doar aplicații ale celor existente. Descoperim aici un efort de a aduce în prim-plan condițiile urbane marginalizate, transformându-le în surse de inovație conceptuală. Tonul este unul academic precis, adresându-se direct studenților avansați și cercetătorilor care caută să depășească limitele analitice ale urbanismului convențional.

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ISBN-13: 9781119697510
ISBN-10: 1119697514
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 157 x 235 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.83 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

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Această lucrare este esențială pentru cercetătorii și studenții la geografie sau planificare urbană care doresc să depășească modelele teoretice eurocentrice. Jennifer Robinson oferă un set de tactici metodologice concrete pentru a compara orașe din contexte radical diferite. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă decolonială asupra urbanizării contemporane, învățând să analizeze „orașele obișnuite” dincolo de etichetele simpliste de „metropolă globală” sau „lumea a treia”.

Despre autor

Jennifer Robinson este o autoritate recunoscută în domeniul studiilor urbane, cercetarea sa actuală fiind construită pe succesul volumului Ordinary Cities. Prin acea lucrare, ea a dezvoltat o critică postcolonială care a redefinit modul în care academicienii privesc diviziunea dintre orașele occidentale și cele în curs de dezvoltare. Robinson pledează împotriva perspectivelor care categorizează orașele în ierarhii precum „Global” sau „Mega”, concentrându-se pe traiectoriile diverse ale așezărilor urbane. Activitatea sa are implicații majore asupra practicilor internaționale de urbanism, invitând la o regândire a fundamentelor comparative.

Descriere

This innovative volume offers new methodological foundations for global urban studies. 

  • Proposes the reformatting of comparative practice to provoke new conceptualizations and contribute to more inclusive analytical conversations
  • Focuses both on revising existing theories and inventing new concepts for global urban studies, drawing on an array of theoretical and empirical resources
  • Provides a novel approach to urban studies, open to different urban experiences around the world
  • Features a wealth of rich examples of the many dimensions of global urban life
  • Presents a range of methodological tactics informed by postcolonial critiques of urban studies and by theoretical and philosophical understandings of the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the urban

Cuprins

Series Editors' Preface Preface ix Introduction 1 Part I Reformatting Comparison 23 1 Ways of Knowing the Global Urban 25 Uncertain Territories, 'Strategic Essentialisms': Regions, the Global South and beyond 27 The Disappearing City: Planetary Urbanisation and its Critics 35 Decolonial, Developmental, Emergent: Different Starting Points, or Incomparability? 41 Dimensions of a Comparative Urban Imagination 47 Conclusion 50 2 The Limits of Comparative Methodologies in Urban Studies 53 Some Analytical Limits to the 'World' of Cities: Beyond Incommensurability 54 Conventional Strategies for Comparison in Urban Studies 57 The Potential of Comparative Research 69 Conclusion 76 3 Comparative Urbanism in the Archives: Thinking with Variety, Thinking with Connections 79 Expanding the Comparative Gesture 80 Thinking with Variety 83 Stretching Comparisons: Thinking with Connections 91 Conclusion 104 4 Thinking Cities through Elsewhere: Reformatting Comparison 107 Thinking with Concrete Totalities 108 Singularities, Repeated Instances, Concepts 119 Genetic and Generative Grounds for Urban Comparisons 125 Conclusion: From Grounds to Tactics 128 Part II Genetic Comparisons 135 5 Connections 137 Connections as Urbanisation Processes 138 Connections Producing Repeated Instances 146 Every Case Matters 154 Conclusion 159 6 Relations 161 Wider Processes 164 Urban Neoliberalisation, Comparatively 171 Connected Contexts 186 More Spatialities of the Urban: Topologies, Partial Connections, Submarine Relations 191 Conclusion 195 Part III Generative Comparisons 199 7 Generating Concepts 201 The Conceptualising Subject: Institutions, Horizons, Grounds 204 A Life of Concepts: Ideal Types 217 Thinking the 'Concrete' 230 Negotiated Universals: Concepts 'In-common' 235 Conclusion 243 8 Composing Comparisons 247 Working with 'Conjuncture' 249 Conceptualising from Specificity 263 Thinking across Diversity 271 Conclusion 276 9 Conversations 279 Shifting Grounds: Comparison as Practice 280 Comparison as Conversations 284 Theoretical Reflections 292 Mobile Concepts, or 'Arriving at' Concepts 295 Conclusion 301 Part IV Thinking from the Urban as Distinctive 305 10 Territories 307 Thinking from Territories 308 Which Territorialisations? 312 Assembling Territories 320 Conclusion 325 11 Into the Territory, or, the Urban as Idea 329 Detachment 331 Suturing 336 Standstill 340 Ideas 346 Informality, as Idea 357 Conclusion 362 Conclusion: Starting Anywhere, Thinking with (Elsew)here 369 A Reformatted Urban Comparison 370 Conceptualisation 376 An Explosion of Urban Studies 383 References 387 Index 441

Descriere scurtă

COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The theoretical and empirical scope is astounding, enlightening, emboldening. Robinson peels away conceptual labels that have anointed some cities as paradigmatic and left others as mere copies. She recalibrates overly used theoretical perspectives, resurrects forgotten ones long in need of a dusting off, and brings to the fore those often marginalised. Robinson's approach radically re-distributes who speaks for the urban, and which urban conditions shape our theoretical understandings. With Comparative Urbanism in our hands, we can start the practice of urban studies anywhere and be relevant to any number of elsewheres.' Jane M. Jacobs, Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore 'How to think the multiplicity of urban realities at the same time, across different times and rhythmic arrangements; how to move with the emergences and stand-stills, with conceptualisations that do justice to all things gathered under the name of the urban. How to imagine comparatively amongst differences that remain different, individualised outcomes, but yet exist in-common. No book has so carefully conducted a specifically urban philosophy on these matters, capable of beginning and ending anywhere.' AbdouMaliq Simone, Senior Research Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield The rapid pace and changing nature of twenty-first century urbanisation as well as the diversity of global urban experiences calls for new theories and new methodologies in urban studies. In Comparative Urbanism: Tactics for Global Urban Studies, Jennifer Robinson proposes grounds for reformatting comparative urban practice and offers a wide range of tactics for researching global urban experiences. The focus is on inventing new concepts as well as revising existing approaches. Inspired by postcolonial and decolonial critiques of urban studies she advocates for an experimental comparative urbanism, open to learning from different urban experiences and to expanding conversations amongst urban scholars across the globe. The book features a wealth of examples of comparative urban research, concerned with many dimensions of urban life. A range of theoretical and philosophical approaches ground an understanding of the radical revisability and emergent nature of concepts of the urban. Advanced students, urbanists and scholars will be prompted to compose comparisons which trace the interconnected and relational character of the urban, and to think with the variety of urban experiences and urbanisation processes across the globe, to produce the new insights the twenty-first century urban world demands.

Notă biografică

Jennifer Robinson is Professor of Human Geography, University College London, UK. She is the author of Ordinary Cities, a seminal work which developed a postcolonial critique of urban studies. Her empirical research in South Africa examined the history of apartheid cities and the politics of post-apartheid city-visioning, while her comparative research has focused on urban development politics in London, Shanghai and Johannesburg, as well as on the transnational circuits shaping African urbanization.