Pub Date : 2023-11-05DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210201
Loretta Lees
In this plenary for the new journal Dialogues in Urban Research, I discuss what constitutes (and should constitute going forward) engaged dialogue in urban research. Engaged dialogue is the process of working collaboratively with groups of people, whoever they are, in relation to particular issues that affect them, to understand those issues better. So what does engaged dialogue in urban research look like? Who is engaging with who, where, why, and how? Has it changed over time? Most, if not all, urban research engages beyond academia, but that engaged dialogue rarely makes it into the pages of academic journals in an inclusionary way. Who usually takes part in conversations on urban research in journals, but also who does not (or is less likely to), and who should? In a new world of publishing and government-funded research that is promoting open access, making research more publicly accessible and inclusive, there has been much less discussion of those engaged in the dialogue that is published. And, if academics do publish with nonacademics it is not usually in an academic journal; this is not inclusive, indeed it is exclusionary.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-01DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210195
Mary Lawhon
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210197
Alexander Vasudevan
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Pub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210196
Camila Saraiva
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Pub Date : 2023-10-29DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210198
Geoffrey DeVerteuil
In the context of an ongoing conversation about cities and inequality, I offer a critical but not contrarian set of responses to the very generous commentaries provided by the five peer reviewers. I hope to use this space to both clarify and nuance some of my original provocations around the emerging lopsided city and the value of revisiting insights on inequality generated in the 1990s.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-29DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210200
Stefano Bloch, Dugan Meyer
In our initial paper calling for a more affective understanding of displacement in gentrification studies, we argued that displacement is a process that functions through diverse rearticulations of people's embodied capacity to make place, only some of which take the form of physical or social dislocation. Our intervention was intended to reignite this already existing argument by drawing attention to the embodied, affective, and emotional dimensions of displacement with a critical consideration of the role race/racism plays within this process today. We argue that such a perspective offers gentrification researchers a more critically incisive methodological and theoretical toolkit for grasping how power operates in urban space, particularly in dimensions commonly overlooked by traditional critical scholarship. We are excited and grateful to the editors of Dialogues in Urban Research for making space for this conversation, and to the scholars – Prince K. Guma, John Lennon, Joy White, Brandi T. Summers, Prentiss Dantzler, and Maria-Aminata Peron – who offered insightful responses to our paper. These responses both clarified and extended our own perspective, particularly in terms of demonstrating how the agential, creative, and collaborative efforts of urban residents to make and remake place can both bring into focus the affective dimensions of urban space and open up possibilities for imagining new urban imaginaries.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-29DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210202
Joy White
In displacement beyond dislocation: Aversive racism in gentrification studies, Stefano Bloch and Dugan Meyers analyse how displacement in gentrification studies has been conceptualised. Following a critical examination of the literature, they argue for a more theoretically nuanced concept of how racism takes place. In doing so, they suggest that the role of racism has been under-acknowledged in studies on the processes of gentrification, making the point that geographers have been reluctant to talk about race. Outlining a concept of aversive racism – ‘an insidious mode of affective spatial practice’, they illustrate how place-making, and place-taking function through ambivalent racial encounters. I want to think through these important points, using my work on gentrification in Newham as a starting point.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-29DOI: 10.1177/27541258231210204
Bruno Cousin
Comments on Bas van Heur’s bibliometric article about urban studies as a global field of research, and how to improve their inclusivity and decentralization.
对Bas van Heur关于城市研究作为全球研究领域的文献计量学文章的评论,以及如何提高其包容性和分散性。
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