ABSTRACT
This chapter engages with the comparative as an analytical approach to decolonising the study of the urban, drawing on the experiences of GenUrb’s transnational project and its focus on cities in the global South. It turns first to a discussion of the global South, of how the term evolved, and how it has been analysed. Various approaches to theorising the urban global South in the 21st century are outlined before reviewing the contributions of post-colonial scholarship to approaches to urban comparison, highlighting strands of post-colonial urban scholarship that share affinities with feminist approaches to the urban. The chapter then turns to three key lineages of feminist research to study the urban in a comparative vein, bringing it into engagement with provocations from decolonial scholarship. Finally, GenUrb’s feminist approach to comparison is briefly outlined, showing the ecologies of relationality that make transnational comparative urban research possible.
