Introduction: Worlding Cities, or the Art of being Global

Ong, Aihwa

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“…For example, Roy and Ong (2011) build their insightful analyses through attention to the 'inter-referencing' practices of cities in Asia. While scrupulous in their attention to the wider circulations of these practices, they also ground an analytical territorialisation based on the assertion of a distinctive new 'Asian' urbanism (Ong, 2011;Percival and Waley, 2012;Roy, 2011). Certainly, this Asia is unbounded, as Roy proposes, framed by both emergence and circulation.…”

Section: Global Urban Theorisingmentioning

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“…(Ong, 2011: 5;emphasis in original) Clearly, there is no difficulty with an empirically grounded analysis of specific intraAsian circuits, perhaps in the spirit of Brenner's suggestion that careful comparative work might support certain claims to innovation and distinctiveness. Although it seems rather difficult to generalise the claim that urban development in different cities in Asia lacks 'western' referents -as Ong (2011) and Roy (2011) themselves insist, the global nature of many of the professional practices underlying production of the urban (McNeill, 2009), as well as the circulating nature of much urban policy in the region, seem to suggest that continuing attention to the exteriorisation of urbanisation beyond the region is advisable. So, while putting an imagination of the urban to work which maps well on to the 'urban now' -dispersed, multiple iterations of conceptualising the urban -the temptation of the new leads even these subtle analysts to reterritorialise their account as an Asian urbanism through claims to novelty premised on the very connections that would displace such a manoeuvre.…”

Section: Global Urban Theorisingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As he writes, 'My goal is more to suggest ways in which we might see again, to point to the multi-faceted urbanity in African contexts as of great value to global understanding of urbanism' (Myers, 2010: 7). Or, finally, prototypes: places where new forms of urbanism can be detected, prior to their wider spread (for a contemporary example, see Ong's (2011) introduction to Ananya Roy and Aihwa Ong's Worlding Cities collection). I want to propose that the association of cities with modernity has played a part in a continuing orientation towards theorising cities through the rubric of the 'new' or the leading edge of urbanism.…”

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The urban now: Theorising cities beyond the new

Robinson

2013

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Urban studies has aligned cities closely with modernity, with strong implications for their conceptualisation. Through the 20th century the founding analyses of urban studies drew on a specific (western) version of urban modernity to define universal accounts of urbanity, excluding many cities from contributing to broader theorisations of the urban. In addition, urban theory has often been inspired by the modernity of cities, identifying 'the new' as the basis for distinctive approaches to understanding cities. In the wake of the move towards a more global urban studies, the extent to which traditions of thinking cities through the inherited analytical lens of urban modernity persist needs to be considered. To counter the continuing effects of theorising from the idea of modernity, or the new, the analytical device of the 'urban now' is developed from Walter Benjamin's analysis of modernity to propose new geographies of theorising the urban.

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Section: Global Urban Theorisingmentioning

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“…These researchers trace processes of "inter-referencing" that can involve vague forms of mutual influence including "citation, allusion, aspiration, comparison and competition" (Ong, 2011:17). Furthermore, where earlier studies on policy learning focused on flows of knowledge between industrialized nations or from richer to poorer countries (for example, Duan, 2010;Dawes et al, 2011), these studies explore the circulation of knowledge among countries and cities whose regional location or development pathways present similar challenges (for example Ong, 2011).…”

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Mobility and health sector development in China and India

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Fang

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Social Science & Medicine

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a b s t r a c tChina and India are both attempting to create comprehensive healthcare systems in the context of rapid but uneven economic growth and rapidly changing burdens of disease. While in each country the referencing of international policies and work experience abroad have been part of this process, research has yet to examine the kind of knowledge that is exchanged or the various actors involved in knowledge circulation. Based on a study of two sub-national contexts, this article focuses on the role Chinese and Indian health professionals who have studied and worked overseas play in introducing ideas and practices about healthcare provision and health education. We found that experience abroad influenced individuals, institutions, and each society differently and with some contradictory effects. International experience clearly contributed to personal growth and led individuals to support the adoption of new institutional practices, such as more egalitarian relations between doctors and patients and between students and teachers. However, the content of what individuals learned overseas and the mechanisms through which this knowledge was introduced back into homeland settings often reinforced rather than ameliorated institutional hierarchies and social inequalities. While the scope of this research was limited, we suggest that more explicit analysis of the role professional migrants play in transferring ideas and practices within the health sector would be valuable for policymakers and funders seeking to support a more productive interaction between local and global knowledge.

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“…This is inevitable in an environment where Baclaran hawkers strive to keep their claimed spaces of power (Gaventa, 2011) alongside efforts to tap into the invited and hidden channels and the invited spaces of power. It echoes Ong's (2011) observation on the difficulty of determining whether some actors and practices are on the side of power or on the side of resistance.…”

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Who Governs the 'Ungovernable'? Examining Governing Relations in Urban Informality

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For several decades now, Metro Manila's Baclaran district has been home to thousands of street vendors who have capitalised on its functions as a commercial centre, a transport node, and a Filipino Catholic devotional site. This presence of informal hawkers, which some government officials consider as an urban blight, has generated a range of policies that seek to manage, if not eradicate, the informal hawkers. Years of street occupancy, however, have enabled the tenacious vendors to enforce grassroots mechanisms to appropriate streetscapes. I refer to this interplay of state interventions and grassroots practices as the formal-informal interface. Seen from an urban planning perspective, the Baclaran context offers an opportunity for scholarly inquiry into how the complex spatio-political ordering and socio-economic realities unsettle the essentialist formal-versus-informal categories of work and state interventions. In sum, these findings reveal how understanding the formal-informal interface contributes to the evolving conceptual and empirical conversations on worlding cities. The Baclaran case shows how worlding practices arise from the interplay of global North-oriented planning ideals and policy approaches, the unequal socio-spatial relations, and the continuing struggle of marginalized street vendors in the global South. These issues require rethinking of policy direction and planning trajectory.iii

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Introduction: Worlding Cities, or the Art of being Global

Cited by 365 publications

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The urban now: Theorising cities beyond the new

The urban now: Theorising cities beyond the new

Mobility and health sector development in China and India

Who Governs the 'Ungovernable'? Examining Governing Relations in Urban Informality

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