Pub Date : 2024-01-02DOI: 10.1177/20438206231220724
Xiaobo Su, Kean Fan Lim
Research on the urban process of capital accumulation has typically examined the state and capital as separate actors. This distinction is problematized by a long-standing, increasingly prominent but largely overlooked attempt by state institutions to drive urban development through venture capital (VC) investments. Conceptualized as urban state venturism in this paper, state-driven VC investments reflect at once a riskier extension of urban entrepreneurialism (through their speculative construction of place) and a transposition of state institutions into firm-level drivers of capitalist urbanization (through their roles as profit-oriented investors). To advance research on the urban process of capital accumulation through examining these imbricated state roles, this paper presents a new research agenda that comprises three dimensions, namely (i) the rationale of urban state venturism, (ii) the distribution of profits and risks, and (iii) the extent to which urban state venturism reflects state institutions’ intrinsic commitment to a ‘developmentalist’ ideology. In turn, the agenda foregrounds the value of assessing ‘new’ state capitalism through urban state venturism.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-25DOI: 10.1177/20438206231220725
W. Nchito
The article by Brandon Finn titled ‘The structure of informality: The Zambian Copperbelt and the informal/formal dialectic' presents a discussion that, for me, needs to be had. I have always argued that some of these universally applied nomenclatures that have been used to label certain phenomena in the global South need revisiting. This is because they have been devised with a global North contextualization and do not adequately define the phenomena. Those seeking to define African informality most likely approach it from a Western context within which urbanization has evolved and developed to a level where systems and infrastructure work efficiently. My thinking on this issue is that ‘ what would happen if we stopped trying to force development of the Global South to fit into western stereotypes?’ There seems to be an expectation of global South urban development to follow in the footsteps of the West. Meanwhile the development of cities on the continent have taken a totally different trajectory from the textbook cases that we find ourselves trying to superimpose on the global South cities.
Brandon Finn 的文章题为 "非正规性的结构：赞比亚铜带和非正规/正规的辩证关系 "一文中提出了一个我认为需要进行的讨论。我一直认为，需要重新审视某些普遍适用的术语，这些术语曾被用来标记全球南方的某些现象。这是因为这些术语是在全球北方的背景下设计的，并不能充分定义这些现象。那些试图定义非洲非正规性的人很可能是从西方背景出发的，在西方背景下，城市化已经演变和发展到一个系统和基础设施都能有效运作的水平。我在这个问题上的想法是，'如果我们不再试图强迫全球南部的发展符合西方的陈规定型观念，会发生什么呢？人们似乎期望全球南部的城市发展能够追随西方的脚步。与此同时，非洲大陆城市的发展轨迹却与教科书上的案例完全不同，我们发现自己正试图将这些案例叠加到全球南部城市中。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1177/20438206231221618
Shawn Bodden
You won’t get far in geographical theory today without bumping into one ontology or another. Metaphysical assertions about key spatial concepts – ‘space is open’, ‘community is exclusionary’, ‘the political is agonistic’ – guide empirical analysis. In this mode of theorising, the vocation of critical geography is to correct conceptual misunderstandings and thereby direct political action. Curiously perhaps, the geographer becomes one who – in the name of emancipatory projects – points people to their proper place. An alternative approach to critical theory might consider instead how people place themselves. Just such a concern animates the varied enterprises operating under the name of ordinary language philosophy. This article examines how philosophies of ordinary language might contribute to new avenues of geographical research by examining the relationship between Stanley Cavell's writings on the human voice as a site of embodied and passionate response and Clive Barnett's call for an action-theoretic approach to social inquiry as an alternative to ontological critique. Taken together, their work recommends a programme of inquiry into ordinary critical geographies: how people circumstantiate the meaning, worth and wisdom of their actions, and, in doing so, work to place themselves in the world.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-21DOI: 10.1177/20438206231220711
Nancy Odendaal
Prasad et al.'s (2023) article, ‘Smart City Planning and the Challenges of Informality in India’, makes an important contribution to understanding the limitations of smart city planning practices in a Southern context. However, whilst informality is a dominant feature of Southern urbanism, the appropriation of smart technologies by those at the margins tells an expanded story of smart urbanism from the bottom up, thereby challenging the underpinning notions of planning and smart urbanism.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-17DOI: 10.1177/20438206231220727
James McCarthy
In contrast to the urban-centric framing of planetary urbanization, the concept of ‘planetary rural geographies’ emphasizes the ongoing importance and distinctiveness of pluriversal rural spaces and identities, including their continued centrality to the global economy. It also argues that rural spaces are especially defined by diverse relationships between the human and non-human that must be understood volumetrically, rather than through largely two-dimensional territorial imaginaries. These themes are developed and illustrated via consideration of contemporary rural geographies as spaces of crisis, spaces of conflict, and spaces of hope. The concept of planetary rural geographies could be enhanced by greater attention to key analytical commonalties among admittedly diverse rural geographies, particularly with respect to broader dynamics of capitalist development and climate change, an effort that could be supported via greater engagement between the literatures on specifically rural geographies, and those on rural populisms, climate adaptation and mitigation, and energy geographies.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-17DOI: 10.1177/20438206231220722
A. Vorbrugg
Millions of hectares of farmland have been abandoned over the past decades globally. Yet abandonment remains a neglected ‘outside’ of both the planetary urbanization debate and the emerging field of planetary rural geographies. Engaging with abandonment can benefit both these debates and help overcome persistent and new binaries between the rural and the urban.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1177/20438206231217561
Friederike Landau-Donnelly
This commentary engages with Secor’s intriguing proposition of the spacetimeunconscious as a supplement to quantum physicist and philosopher Karen Barad’s spacetimematter, which puts forth a non-linear conception of time, irreducibly linked with a discontinuous notion of space, and a vibrant, multi-agential perspective onto matter. By interconnecting new feminist materialisms and psychoanalytic geographies, Secor nuances existing approaches in psychoanalytic geographies by placing emphasis on the elemental, material paradoxes of the unconscious – existing in/as/from the same fabric but also outside of themselves, in different aggregate states. With the aim to draw urban studies scholars and geographers closer to psychoanalytic thought, I make use of my own non-expert point of departure to first shed light on the offerings towards the academic politics of knowledge production that Secor's text holds. Second, I specify conceptual alignments between psychoanalytic and hydrofeminist geographical thought. Third, I mobilize the disjointed trope of hauntology to assist Secor's call for a more ambivalence-embracing and poetic approach to the production of geographical texts, knowledge and epistemologies.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-03DOI: 10.1177/20438206231217566
June Wang
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1177/20438206231217560
Franck Billé
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Pub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1177/20438206231217568
Thomas Brasdefer
In this commentary, I address some of the assumptions of a geography focused on teleological promises. Ben Anderson presented attachment as a kind of relation with special endurance and significance, differentiating it from relations which may be entangled. As a result, the power of attachments lies in one's aspirations: they may turn abstract objects into proximal objects. I am responding to two emphases of the concept: on meaning and on sensuous attachment. I revisit Anderson and subsequent commentaries by Cockayne and Ruez, Coleman, Rose and Zhang plumbing their shared theoretical roots in Lauren Berlant and Michel Foucault for connective tissue. I refer casually to the rich literature in analytic philosophy on meaning. Caveat lector that there exists a lengthy debate on ‘belief–desire’ in philosophy and psychology about whether these affects alone may cause human action or if they need an external object: how can we know what we want if we do not know about it? For lack of space and geography, I will not cover this topic, and furthermore I am not bridging the chasm between analytic and continental philosophy; but both present methodological difficulties to attachment-as-placemaking.
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