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Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning Through Southern Cities

Making Urban Theory: Learning and Unlearning Through Southern Cities

Lawhon, Mary

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Series: Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms

General SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 1032238852
ISBN13: 9781032238852
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 13 2021
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

Making Urban Theory addresses debates of the past fifty years regarding whether and why scholars should conceptualize southern cities as different and argues for the continued importance of unlearning existing theory. With examples from the urban question to environmental justice, urban infrastructure to basic income, this volume highlights the limitations of existing explanations as well as how thinking from the south entails more than collecting data in new places. Throughout the book, instances of juxtapositions, unease, unlearning and learning anew emphasize how theory-making from southern cases can open avenues to more creative possibilities. The book pulls theories apart, examining distinct components to better understand the universality and provinciality of empirical phenomena, causality and norms, including questions of what a city is and ought to be.

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