Comparative Urbanism

Comparative Urbanism

Tactics for Global Urban Studies

Robinson, Jennifer

John Wiley & Sons Inc

08/2022

464

Dura

Inglês

9781119697510

15 a 20 dias

780

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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
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