Placing planetary urbanization in other fields of vision

Peake, Linda; Patrick, Darren; Reddy, Rajyashree N.; Tanyildiz, Gökbörü Sarp; Ruddick, Sue; Tchoukaleyska, Roza

doi:10.1177/0263775818775198

Cited by 51 publications

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“…Following Roy, I seek to messy sanitized notions of gentrification, to make dispossession visible and audible. This work is also greatly informed by geographers analyzing the intersections between racial capitalism, (settler) colonialism, property, anti-blackness, and carcerality in urban space (Bledsoe and Wright, 2019; Bonds, 2019; Ellison, 2016; Loyd and Bonds, 2018; McClintock, 2018; Pulido, 2015, 2016; Ranganathan, 2016; Safransky, 2014, 2018), and I follow the calls of other feminist urban geographers (Derickson, 2015, 2017; Oswin, 2018; Peake, 2016; Peake et al., 2018; Robinson and Roy, 2016; Roy, 2016) pushing for a “new epistemology of the urban” that is not only Marxist but also informed by “queer, feminist, postcolonial and critical race theories” (Oswin, 2018: 3). Urban space is not merely a shifting landscape upon which hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces clash; the borderlands analytic implores a reckoning with the violent day to day struggles of those undergoing dispossession.…”

Section: Borderland As Analyticmentioning

confidence: 97%

City as borderland: Gentrification and the policing of Black and Latinx geographies in Oakland

Ramírez

2019

Environ Plan D

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From the foreclosure crisis of 2008, to the tech boom-provoked housing crisis currently engulfing the San Francisco Bay Area, low-income residents of Oakland, California have been displaced from their homes at an alarming rate over the past decade. In this piece I draw from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands and engage with Black geographic thought, urban and sound studies to build a borderlands analytic. I consider how the “tension, ambivalence and unrest” of the borderlands provides a lens to understand the volatility of cities gripped by rapid gentrification. Using a borderlands analytic to make sense of the borders that are produced and policed in gentrifying cities, I consider how Black and Latinx life has been criminalized spatially and sonically so as to be displaced by forces of racial capitalist extraction. To do this, I look to the implementation of gang injunction zones in Oakland in 2010, and then to two moments in 2015 when the city’s soundscapes were policed and criminalized. This piece centers the Black and Latinx geographies experiencing dispossession in Oakland, and considers how residents are imagining and fighting for their city’s future.

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Section: Borderland As Analyticmentioning

confidence: 97%

City as borderland: Gentrification and the policing of Black and Latinx geographies in Oakland

Ramírez

2019

Environ Plan D

117

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“…More recently, research centring on states and urban infrastructure has started to engage with everyday approaches in urban research (Peake et al., 2018). A growing number of studies, emerging mostly from research on South Asian cities, have thus further extended understandings of the connections between states and urban infrastructures by turning to the investigation of everyday mundane practices.…”

Section: The State In/through ‘Heterogeneous’ Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Everyday states and water infrastructure: Insights from a small secondary city in Africa, Bafatá in Guinea-Bissau

Alves

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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A rich body of work on everyday governance and urban infrastructure has produced nuanced understandings of the situated power relations and manifold practices shaping urban infrastructure in diverse cities. However, there is little research focusing on the practices and relations of state actors, and examining how these might shape different infrastructural configurations and relate to broader processes of state formation. This is particularly the case for secondary cities in Africa. This article draws on anthropological explorations of the state and debates on local ownership in aid to examine how state practices and relations have shaped water infrastructure in a small secondary city (Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau), and how the state is constituted in this process. Based on extensive ethnographic work, this research demonstrates that in a context of aid dependency, state influence is necessarily constituted through its relations with non-state organisations. Formal state presence therefore depends on the subtle and erratic recognition bestowed on the state by non-state organisations. However, local state actors continue to shape water provision in Bafatá in fundamental ways not through following policy and regulatory frameworks, but through their (informal) decisions, practices and interactions with non-state organisations. Overall, it is argued that anthropological explorations of states open our analytical lens to the mundane ways in which states shape different types of urban infrastructure, and the ways these practices relate to broader processes of state formation, particularly in context where states appear elusive.

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“…This was met with a series of critical responses on the disciplining work done by their mode of theorisation (Leitner and Sheppard, 2016; Mould, 2016; Peake, 2016; Robinson, 2016; Robinson and Roy, 2016; Roy, 2016; Simone, 2016; Walker, 2016). Second, was the emergence of planetary urbanisation in urban studies, and the various debates this generated about competing and contrasting epistemologies and ontologies of the urban (Brenner and Schmid, 2014, 2015; Peake et al, 2018). A subsequent intervention by Storper and Scott (2016: 1114) in which they took aim not only at planetary urbanisation but also at ‘postcolonial urban theory’ and ‘assemblage theoretic approaches’ – ‘three currently influential versions of urban analysis’ as they put it – sped up the unravelling of the prior intellectual truce.…”

Section: The Origins and Rationale For The Summer Institute In Urban mentioning

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Reflections on five years of the Summer Institute in Urban Studies

Ward

Bunnell

2020

Urban Studies

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This critical commentary introduces the Summer Institute in Urban Studies (SIUS) in the context of the wider inter-disciplinary discussions over the future of urban studies. It outlines the context out of which the institute first took place in Manchester in 2014 and how it has evolved across four subsequent iterations, the most recent of which was held in Singapore in July 2018. We document and discuss the profile of those who have participated in the four institutes and reflect upon some of the challenges that have emerged through discussions on the current state of the field of urban studies and its various possible futures. In conclusion, this critical commentary reflects on what we have learnt from the four institutes to date as we plan for #SIUS2020.

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Placing planetary urbanization in other fields of vision

Cited by 51 publications

References 43 publications

City as borderland: Gentrification and the policing of Black and Latinx geographies in Oakland

City as borderland: Gentrification and the policing of Black and Latinx geographies in Oakland

Everyday states and water infrastructure: Insights from a small secondary city in Africa, Bafatá in Guinea-Bissau

Reflections on five years of the Summer Institute in Urban Studies

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