Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning Through Southern Cities

ISBN-13: 9780367344924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 124 str.

Mary Lawhon

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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 Lené 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 Lené Le Roux; 8: Theorizing anew through southern cities; 9: Recognizing and reworking the norms that travel with theory; Conclusion; Index