Disaster and the lived politics of the resilient city

DeVerteuil, Geoffrey; Golubchikov, Oleg; Sheridan, Zoe

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.07.004

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“…Lauermann (2018) calls this municipal statecraft, an inherently experimental form of governance in which the city becomes an ‘urban laboratory’ for piloting alternative models for urban design, management, and/or planning (see also McGuirk et al ., 2021). While growth politics are evaluated based on return on investment, experimental forms of municipal statecraft are ‘evaluated with a broader range of metrics associated with policy agendas’ (Lauermann, 2018: 206), such as smart (Datta, 2015), resilient (DeVerteuil et al ., 2021) and sustainable (Cai and Tang, 2021) cities. Importantly, experimentation has not replaced economic growth agendas but seeks to encompass ‘growth and other objectives in parallel’ (Lauermann, 2018: 215).…”

Section: Whither (Socially Engaged) Municipal Statecraft? a View From...mentioning

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SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment

Teo¹

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In this article I build on scholarship that calls for attention to the interventionist role of the municipality in steering development beyond growth to introduce the situated planning experiment as a mechanism through which municipalities practice socially engaged statecraft. The situated planning experiment foregrounds place‐based innovative planning practices that incorporate the participation of citizen intellectuals who act as advocates for marginalized groups in China. I frame the Shenzhen Urbanism\Architecture Biennale (UABB) as a situated planning experiment, tracing its influence on the municipality's shift in approach to planning for urban village redevelopment. I show how the UABB is leveraged as an instrument for the municipality to connect social and economic objectives in development and how it presents differentiated opportunities for migrant residents to make viable urban lives. The article offers one possibility for theorizing the changing relationship between municipal entrepreneurialism and urban planning and critically evaluates the potential for socially engaged municipal statecraft, considering the Xi regime's focus on people‐oriented urbanization. It represents one way in which studies of municipal statecraft can consider the variegated logics and forms of emerging post‐growth state programmes and politics.

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Section: Whither (Socially Engaged) Municipal Statecraft? a View From...mentioning

confidence: 99%

SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment

Teo¹

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…The first aspect of the counter-visualization illustrates the specific use of the time-series technique as a concrete form of slow research. My research project is the absolute epitome of slow scholarship and slow research, with an eye to detecting the slow city rather than capturing catastrophic and fast change (DeVerteuil et al, 2021). The 30-year period represents a lengthy gestation period, designed at least in part to capture an entire academic career’s worth of thoughts and insights.…”

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Slow scholarship, the slow city, and counter-visual practices

DeVerteuil

2022

Environment and Planning F

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Slow scholarship offers an alternative way to do research, yet its implications for visual practice and production remain implicit. In this article, I translate and apply key notions of slow scholarship to visual practice and production, in particular that slower can be a better and more care-full way of doing research. This gap is filled by re-purposing existing methods (time-series, inconvenience sampling, replicable) to capture what I deem the “slow city,” that is the everyday fabrics of urban areas that tend to be ignored and vulnerable to slow violence. My own counter-visualization applies these insights through three case studies, which map onto longitudinal methods (slow violence, care-full research) and translocal, replicable methods (the untagged city).

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“…Overall then, this conceptual conversation enabled a new and productive way of understanding the lived experiences of surplus populations, and provides an important foil to the downbeat propensity within critical urban studies to bemoan the conditions of surplus populations. The consideration of how the commons and counterpublics interact in hypothetical terms is a useful exercise not only conceptually, but also politically–it moves the debate around surplus populations into a post‐revanchist framework (DeVerteuil et al., 2021) that acknowledges exclusions but does not dwell on them at the expense of everything else. Rather, these exclusions are always in tension with more supportive, and sometimes bottom‐up, initiatives, thereby providing an important foil to the downbeat propensity within critical urban studies to bemoan the conditions of surplus populations.…”

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Commons, counterpublics and dissident urban space

DeVerteuil

Kiener

2022

Geography Compass

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We put into conversation two conceptual approaches for understanding the dissident nature of urban space: the commons and the counterpublics. This novel conceptual conversation asks the following questions -what is the interplay between them? Do they complement, build on, contradict, or ignore each other? What is urban about their particular interplays? These hypothetical matters are framed by a consideration of the fate of populations deemed surplus in urban space. Our conceptual conversation enables a new and productive way of understanding dissident urban spaces.

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Disaster and the lived politics of the resilient city

Cited by 15 publications

References 41 publications

SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment

SOCIALLY ENGAGED MUNICIPAL STATECRAFT IN URBAN CHINA? The Shenzhen Biennale as Situated Planning Experiment

Slow scholarship, the slow city, and counter-visual practices

Commons, counterpublics and dissident urban space

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