Recent Trends in Latin American Urban Studies
In: Latin American research review, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 183-188
ISSN: 1542-4278
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In: Latin American research review, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 183-188
ISSN: 1542-4278
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 38, Heft 5, S. 1644-1659
ISSN: 1468-2427
AbstractThis article explores the possibilities of philosophical pragmatism for critical theory in urban studies. It points to the philosophical connections between pragmatism and the mainstay of critical theory in urban studies — Marxism. The article suggests how these philosophical roots as well as contemporary developments of pragmatism in social science (and in critical theory) open out the terrain of critical urban studies to make it more pluralist and democratic, theoretically and politically. The article concludes by looking at some of the consequences of this pragmatic turn for critical urban theory.
In: Handbooks in communication and media
In: IJURR studies in urban and social change book series
"Urban studies has gone global - in the range of cities it considers, the scope of its theoretical ambition, and the breadth of practical concerns which now frame urban research. New topics, new subjects of theorisation and new centres of analytical innovation shape the field. The last decade has seen a significant transformation in the terms of the analysis of urbanisation and of the territories thought of as urban across the world. Many more places and processes are being brought into analytical conversation. Nonetheless, there is a keen awareness of the challenges of constituting a global field of urban studies. Shifts in the dynamic sites of rapid global urbanisation to Asia and Africa, along with the great diversity of forms of urban settlement, and the increasingly world-wide impacts of urbanisation processes, have led many urbanists to propose a renewal, if not a fundamental transformation, in urban theory. Many acknowledge this as a moment to confront head on the impossible object of the city, whose boundaries are perhaps even more indistinct than ever. The traditional object of urban studies is arguably disappearing in the face of sprawling urban settlements and "planetary" urbanisation processes. Cities, centres and suburbs become useless residual concepts, which must be used with circumspection and care. The field is in search of new vocabularies to engage with the extraordinary explosion and variety of urban forms - not just sprawling or extended, regional or mega, scholars reach for terms such as galactic and planetary to invoke the physical expansion and world-wide impact of urbanisation. There is much to think about here, and this book will contribute to how we can re-build theorisations in engagement with these trends. In this light, a series of methodological and epistemological dilemmas face all urbanists and require creative and new responses. How can concepts be reviewed, renovated, overthrown or invented across diverse urban outcomes? How can urban theory work effectively with different cases, thinking with the diversity of the urban world? How can the complexity of the urban be addressed with concepts which are necessarily always reductionist? Concepts are inevitably confined by those who articulate them to always begin somewhere, to be spoken always in some particular voice - and yet concepts must grapple with the inexhaustibility of social and material worlds. And what happens when concepts run aground, unable to speak to distinctive urban worlds?"--
In: Questioning cities
This study proposes - and its various chapters offer demonstrations - importing into urban studies a body of theories, concepts, and perspectives developed in the field of science and technology studies (STS) and, more specifically, Actor-Network Theory (ANT).
In: Routledge literature companions
"Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline"--
In: Routledge literature companions
"Over the past decades, the growing interest in the study of literature of the city has led to the development of literary urban studies as a discipline in its own right. The Routledge Companion to Literary Urban Studies provides a methodical overview of the fundamentals of this developing discipline"--
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 6, Heft 6, S. 9-14
ISSN: 1552-3381
Urban Studies research faces a variety of intellectual problems. There are no clear goals for urban research, a fact which is closely related to the lack of common goals in metropolitan regions. Urban research programs must simultaneously incorporate goal considerations and a metropolitan framework.
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 38, Heft 5, S. 1644-1659
ISSN: 1468-2427
In: Questioning Cities
This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects-space, culture, politics, economy-but these too often address each domain and the city itself as a bounded and cohesive entity. The multiple and overlapping enactments that constitute urban life require a commensurate method of analysis that encompasses the human and non-human aspects of cities-from nature to socio-technical networks, to hybrid collectivities, physical artefacts a
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 832-840
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: Journal of urban affairs, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 335-338
ISSN: 1467-9906
In: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Ser.
In: http://hdl.handle.net/10680/841
Brief: 24pp., Digital file. ; A brief written for the Special Joint Comittee of the Senate and House of Commons on the Constitution of Canada on Urban Democracy and the Canadian Constitution.
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In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 24, Heft 4, S. 832-840
ISSN: 1468-2427