<scp>POSTCOLONIZING PLANETARY URBANIZATION</scp>: Aníbal Quijano and an Alternative Genealogy of the Urban

Vegliò, Simone

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“…The article also contributes to debates about planetary urbanization by incorporating perspectives offered from a place outside of Europe—an urgent task for the framework (Vegliò, 2021) and urban studies more broadly (Robinson, 2016; Roy, 2017). Scholars of Oceania have called for the need to develop histories that do not rely on Western knowledges (Hau'ofa, 1994; 2000; Gegeo, 2001).…”

Section: Imperialism On Urbanization's Outsidementioning

confidence: 99%

PLANETARY URBANIZATION AND IMPERIALISM: A View from Guåhan/Guam

Galindez¹

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Through this article I contribute to debates about planetary urbanization by specifying how imperialism, defined as states restricting the self‐determination of other states or peoples, intersects with urbanization. While recent urban theory has explored how urbanization unfolds at scales beyond the city and in relation to global capital accumulation, it has not fully extended these insights to incorporate the central role of states and imperialism. First, I argue that doing so develops a more expansive account of extended urbanization by revealing how networks of military bases are themselves enmeshed in the production of urban networks via state policies, and that militarized sites safeguard the global capitalist economy that sustains urbanization. Secondly, I argue that imperialism changes concentrated urbanization by restricting self‐determination, fomenting spatial formations that prioritize militarism, and shifting urban politics to a larger scale. I show these dynamics through a historical analysis of the US military's strategic interest in the island of Guåhan/Guam at the end of the second world war, and then generalize from this case to consider variegated outcomes at the intersections of urbanization and imperialism. In the article I aim to more adequately explain the heterogenous ways urbanization unfolds across the contemporary world.

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Section: Imperialism On Urbanization's Outsidementioning

confidence: 99%

PLANETARY URBANIZATION AND IMPERIALISM: A View from Guåhan/Guam

Galindez¹

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…The re-emergence of socio-spatial theories regarding what is known as “planetary urbanization” (PU) to explain how urbanization processes move the way around the world (see Brenner, 2014) has led to an explosion of conversation among urbanization scholars (Angelo & Goh, 2021; Arboleda, 2016; Brenner, 2018; Buckley & Strauss, 2016; Castriota & Tonucci, 2018; Connolly, 2018; Derickson, 2018; Goonewardena, 2018; Jazeel, 2018; Keil, 2018; Khatam & Haas, 2018; Kipfer, 2018; McLean, 2018; O’Callaghan, 2018; Oswin, 2018; Oswin & Pratt, 2021; Peake et al, 2018; Pratt, 2018; Reddy, 2018; Schmid, 2018; Vegliò, 2021). It is a re-emergence because the main backbone of PU theory is Henri Lefebvre’s (2014[1970], p. 36) old hypothesis that “society has been completely urbanized.” The notion of extended urbanization, one of the triad socio-spatial infrastructures of PU that unidirectionally assumes the countryside as an “operational landscape” for the city, has been used to identify openings to recalibrate agrarian questions (Ghosh & Meer, 2020).…”

Section: Introduction: Urbanization Theory and The Agrarian Questionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extended Agrarian Question in Concessionary Capitalism: The Jakarta’s Kaum Miskin Kota

Batubara

Rachman

2022

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journ

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This article reassesses agrarian questions by using the ongoing explosion in urban and urbanization theories to explain Jakarta’s urban poor (the Kaum Miskin Kota) as an extended agrarian question. It shows how the two capitalist development trajectories identified by Lenin as the Russian and American paths, or the transformation of feudal large-scale and small landholders into capitalists, respectively, do not apply in Indonesia. In the latter, a “concessionary capitalism” of large-scale land claims and allocations by the state is observed. This specific process produces specific agrarian questions of soil/land and labor through which the urban poor germinated. It closes with a political project, that is, to open more alliance-building possibilities between urban and rural social movements.

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“…It is increasingly acknowledged -and criticised -that the planetary urbanisation debates have had a predominantly Eurocentric and western character, even though observations equivalent to Lefebvre's were made in Latin America around the same time (Vegliò 2021). Three years before Lefebvre's famous statements about the "urban revolution" as "a planetary phenomenon" (Lefebvre [1970(Lefebvre [ ] 2003, the Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano already spoke of the ways in which the process of urbanisation implied far-reaching changes in urban-rural relations which would "no doubt lead to changes in the global structure of society" (Quijano 1967).…”

Section: Urbanisation As a Planetary Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming the City for Sustainable Futures? Contestation and Alternatives in Amsterdam

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This thesis explores the potentials and limits of the city as a locus for transformative social change promoting just and sustainable futures away from extractive capitalism and neoliberal urbanism. Policymakers, activists and researchers increasingly turn to the city as a site for sustainable practice, political potential and alternative economic thinking. Yet, it remains insufficiently clear how alternative models and ideas are put into practice and how the actions subsequently taken by state and non-state actors are collective and transformative. To inform collective, transformative practice, this thesis develops a theoretical account of transformative social change against the background of the tight interconnections of the urban with capitalism which shape the contingent political-economic conditions for change. It posits transformative social change as consisting of two moments: one of difference and contestation and the other of alternatives and diverse economies. In these moments, post-capitalist subjectivities and decommodified urban spaces arise which challenge capitalism in the city and the ways it is premised on growth, divides society into social classes and relies on unpaid care work and nature. The thesis explores the potentials and limits of transformative social change in the city empirically through the case of Amsterdam and its emerging Doughnut Economy. The latter is based on an alternative economic model incorporating social and ecological thinking. The Municipality of Amsterdam has embraced this model in relation to its latest circular economy strategy, while a range of urban activists have adopted it in their efforts to transform the urban economy from below. Drawing on qualitative methods and a dynamic research approach that is both critical and generative, the project examines Amsterdam’s emerging Doughnut Economy, to distil the potential for alternative practices arising in, and despite, dominant structures while remaining aware of the ways in which these structures condition and limit this potential. The study shows how social actors working with and beyond the state engage in contestation and promote alternative practices that begin to reconfigure the unsustainable relations of the urban economy with nature and reposit the city as a space for social reproduction rather than (immaterial) production. Yet, the potential for material rather than merely discursive change remains limited as long as the governing of urban space is profit-dependent and sustainability efforts are simultaneously instrumentalised for international competitiveness and green growth. The thesis thus argues that transformative social change requires paying attention to alternative value creation and class relations in the city as well political-economic relations extending well beyond the geographic boundaries of the city. By shedding light on the dynamics present in one local setting, the thesis paves the way for further disentangling the myriad connections of (un)sustainable local practices with geographies elsewhere – something which is needed to enable solidarities extending far beyond the local.

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POSTCOLONIZING PLANETARY URBANIZATION: Aníbal Quijano and an Alternative Genealogy of the Urban

Abstract: for the extremely helpful suggestions and kind advice they provided while finalizing this article. I would also like to thank the two anonymous IJURR reviewers for their supportive and inspiring comments.

Cited by 7 publications

References 45 publications

PLANETARY URBANIZATION AND IMPERIALISM: A View from Guåhan/Guam

PLANETARY URBANIZATION AND IMPERIALISM: A View from Guåhan/Guam

Extended Agrarian Question in Concessionary Capitalism: The Jakarta’s Kaum Miskin Kota

Transforming the City for Sustainable Futures? Contestation and Alternatives in Amsterdam

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