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Urban Theory Beyond the West

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Urban Theory Beyond the West

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A World of Cities

Urban Theory Beyond the West

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Urban Theory Beyond the West book

A World of Cities
Edited ByTim Edensor, Mark Jayne
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2011
eBook Published 14 November 2011
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203802861
Pages 400
eBook ISBN 9780203802861
Subjects Development Studies, Geography, Social Sciences, Urban Studies
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Edensor, T., & Jayne, M. (Eds.). (2011). Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203802861

ABSTRACT

Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities.  This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.

Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters from leading scholars, raising important theoretical issues about cities throughout the world.  Past and current conceptual developments are reviewed and organized into four parts: ‘De-centring the City’ offers critical perspectives on re-imagining urban theoretical debates through consideration of the diversity and heterogeneity of city life; ‘Order/Disorder’ focuses on the political, physical and everyday ways in which cities are regulated and used in ways that confound this ordering; ‘Mobilities’ explores the movements of people, ideas and policy in cities and between them and ‘Imaginaries’ investigates how urbanity is differently perceived and experienced. There are three kinds of chapters published in this volume: theories generated about urbanity ‘beyond the West’; critiques, reworking or refining of ‘Western’ urban theory based upon conceptual reflection about cities from around the world and hybrid approaches that develop both of these perspectives.

Urban Theory Beyond the West offers a critical and accessible review of theoretical developments, providing an original and groundbreaking contribution to urban theory.  It is essential reading for students and practitioners interested in urban studies, development studies and geography.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|27 pages

Introduction: urban theory beyond the West

ByTim Edensor, Mark Jayne

part |1 pages

PART I De-centring the city

chapter 2|16 pages

No Longer the subaltern: refiguring cities of the global south

ByAbdouMaliq Simone

chapter 3|18 pages

China exceptionalism? Unbounding narratives on urban China

ByChoon-Piew Pow

chapter 4|10 pages

Urban theory beyond the ‘East/West divide’? Cities and urban research in postsocialist Europe Slavomíra FerenFuhová

chapter 5|18 pages

Urbanism, colonialism and subalternity

BySwati Chattopadhyay

part |1 pages

PART II Order/disorder

chapter 6|16 pages

Governing cities without states? Rethinking urban political theories in Asia

ByYooil Bae

chapter 7|9 pages

Public parks in the Americas: New York City and Buenos Aires: Nora Libertun de Duren

ByBuenos Aires Nora Libertun de Duren

chapter 8|15 pages

An illness called Managua: ‘extraordinary’ urbanization and ‘mal-development’ in Nicaragua

ByDennis Rodgers

chapter 9|20 pages

The concept of privacy and space in Kurdish cities

ByHooshmand Alizadeh

chapter 10|16 pages

The networked city: popular modernizers and urban transformation in Morelia, Mexico, 1880–1955

ByChristina M. Jiménez

part |1 pages

PART III Mobilities

chapter 11|20 pages

Distinctly Delhi: affect and exclusion in a crowded city

ByMelissa Butcher

chapter 12|14 pages

Shanghai borderlands: the rise of a new urbanity?

ByDeljana Iossifova

chapter 13|10 pages

Contemporary urban culture in Latin America: everyday life in Santiago, Chile

ByJorge Inzulza-Contardo

chapter 14|18 pages

Urban (im)mobility: public encounters in Dubai

ByYasser Elsheshtawy

part |1 pages

PART IV Imaginaries

chapter 15|22 pages

Reality tours: experiencing the ‘real thing’ in Rio de Janeiro’s favelas

ByBeatriz Jaguaribe, Scott Salmon

chapter 16|12 pages

Modern warfare and the theorization of the Middle Eastern city

BySofia T. Shwayri

chapter 17|21 pages

Reading Thai community: the processes of reformation and fragmentation Cuttaleeya Jiraprasertkun

chapter 18|16 pages

Urban political ecology in the global south: everyday environmental struggles of home in Managua, Nicaragua

ByLaura Shillington

chapter 19|18 pages

Spectral Kinshasa: building the city through an architecture of words

ByFilip De Boeck

chapter 20|3 pages

Afterword: a world of cities

ByTim Edensor, Mark Jayne
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