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Multiple and regionally specific organisational forms of urban studies?
In: Dialogues in urban research, Band 2, Heft 1, S. 100-104
ISSN: 2754-1258
This short contribution comments on Bas van Heur's article 'What, where and who is urban studies? On research centres in an unequal world', a highly original analysis of the state of the art in urban studies complemented by provocative propositions to challenge existing global hierarchies of knowledge production. While I am enthusiastic about this work, I also propose considering in greater detail the interpretational risks associated with van Heur's operationalisation of urban studies as the publication production of multidisciplinary research centres. Specifically, I underline the observation that the article already implicitly contends that the organisational form of multidisciplinary and cross-university urban studies centres may be less likely to emerge in some contexts than in others. Thus, mapping various organisational forms that urban studies take across the world, as well as their history, might usefully complement the project. Yet, the critical question remains – how to do this?
Accounts from behind the Curtain: History and Geography in the Critical Analysis of Urban Theory
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 113-131
ISSN: 1468-2427
AbstractThis article seeks to contribute to the debate on the proposal to decentre urban theory and to develop postcolonial urban studies, and on the related issue of the geography of the production and circulation of knowledge. It focuses on how scholars writing about post‐socialist cities explain why their sub‐field has so far contributed little to urban theory, and it proposes an alternative—historically informed—perspective on the issue. Based on an analysis of the ties and exchanges that existed between urban studies in Central and Eastern Europe and 'West‐based' urban theory and research during the state‐socialist period, this article argues that the recognized current position of research on post‐socialist cities in relation to international urban scholarship has important historical parallels with the period prior to 1989. The article thus underlines the need to include a historically informed analysis of geography of knowledge production in critical thinking about urban theory and in the project of cosmopolitan urban studies. The capacities of researchers in different localities to contribute to this project are various and shaped by the history of the discipline. The conditions and perspectives in and from which researchers contribute to urban theory should therefore be taken into account if the project of cosmopolitan urban studies is to succeed.
Cultural Landscapes of Post‐Socialist Cities: Representation of Powers and Needs – By Mariusz Czepczyński
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 446-448
ISSN: 1468-2427
Comfort, identity and fashion in the post-socialist city: Materialities, assemblages and context
In: Journal of consumer culture, Band 15, Heft 3, S. 329-350
ISSN: 1741-2900
This paper works at the intersection of three bodies of writing: theories relating to fashion, identity and the city; debate relating to urban materialities, assemblages and context; and cultural interventions advancing the study of post-socialism. Drawing on empirical research undertaken in Bratislava, Slovakia, we unpack a blurring of public and private space expressed through clothing. In contrast to elsewhere in the city, in Petržalka, a high-rise housing estate from the socialist period, widely depicted as anonymous and hostile since 1989, residents are renowned for wearing 'comfortable' clothes in order to 'feel at home' in public space. We describe the relationship between fashion, identity and comfort as an everyday 'political' response to state socialism and later the emergence of consumer capitalism. We argue, however, that by considering materialities, assemblages and context that studies of fashion and consumer culture can offer more complex political, economic, social, cultural and spatial analysis. To that end, we show how personal and collective consumption bound up with comfort and city life can be understood with reference to changing temporal and spatial imaginaries and experiences of claiming a material 'right to the city'.