Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2285117
J. Schuch, T. Mushipe
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Pub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2268478
Sue Ruddick, Susannah Bunce, Cara Clancy, Bronwyn Clement, John P. Casellas Connors, Leesa Fawcett, Anne Short Gianotti, Jacquelyn J. Johnston, Erin Luther
ABSTRACT Cities play an increasingly crucial role in addressing the accelerating planetary biodiversity crisis. In this special issue, the authors offer generative tools grounded in an other-than-human standpoint inviting us to “think cities” differently. They re-examine the right to the city and a more-than-human commons; evaluate why and when species become “killable”; and rethink territoriality, attending to the ways other-than humans make and remake cities. They reconceptualize the urban as an ecological formation, entangling cultivated, feral and wild systems of governance. They explore policies that fix our views of other-than-humans, and enlist them in human conflicts, disavowing the fluidity of animal lives. They expose the ways other-than-humans suffer disastrous consequences of urban greening policies when not taken into account. Together they demonstrate why urban theorists, must take as starting point Levi-Strauss’ ([1971]. Totenism. Beacon Press, p. 89) admonition that “animals are good to think [with].”
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Pub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2278959
Weijie Hu, Xinrui Gao
The urban employment dynamics of Chinese peasant workers have transformed in the 2020s, influenced by factors like COVID-19, demographic shifts, China’s economy, urbanization, and globalization. The data presented in this paper comes from China’s national and local authorities, official publications, and reports. The findings reveal a growing trend of these workers seeking jobs closer to their hometowns, causing hiring challenges in city manufacturing sectors. We also found that young workers struggle to secure employment in emerging tertiary industries due to skill gaps, while older workers confront employment barriers from policy restrictions and market biases. This study provides an analysis of the current employment situation for peasant workers in urban areas. It offers valuable insights for policymakers to create measures that foster stable and sustainable employment opportunities for this vulnerable demographic in China.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2276608
Marielle O. Zill
This paper explores asylum seekers’ experiences of urban arrival infrastructures, illustrating how these provide asylum seekers with opportunities for familiarization with the reception location and its inhabitants. Drawing on two qualitative case studies in Augsburg, Germany, three different subsets of arrival infrastructures emerged as relevant to familiarization; infrastructures for information, for language learning and for social connection. The analysis shows how asylum seekers are differentially positioned towards accessing informational, language-learning and social infrastructures due the intersection of spatial, institutional and personal constraints. Public and semi-public spaces proved to be indispensable to asylum seekers’ informational, language learning and social infrastructures. The paper concludes by highlighting the ambiguity and political nature of urban arrival infrastructures: While state-provided, formal infrastructures often undermined the process of familiarization and contributed to asylum seekers’ differential access to opportunities and resources, informal, citizen-provided infrastructures were crucial in supporting asylum seekers’ needs during the periods of uncertainty.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2279872
Gwenn Pulliat, Daniel Block, Michaël Bruckert, Laura Nussbaum-Barberena, Carmen Dreysse, Philippine Dupé, Coline Perrin
ABSTRACTStreet vending has drawn recent attention from city governments in both the Global North and the Global South. This paper focuses on the regulation of street food vending and its enforcement in four cities: Bangkok, Chicago, Hanoi and Montpellier. It draws upon qualitative interviews, archival and newspaper research, and ethnography. The regulatory frameworks raise several issues, because they deny access to space and income for groups that are often underprivileged, and they neglect the roles of street food in the urban food system. We show that the actual enforcement of regulations is uneven between and within cities and between vendors. In some cases, street-level negotiations around enforcement may actually mitigate the negative effects on underprivileged vendors. Hence, the governance of street food vending appears to be more nuanced than the formal regulations that exist. We argue that the design of regulations should better consider the street vendors’ voice and their needs.KEYWORDS: North–South comparisonpublic spaceurban planninginformalityurban food system AcknowledgmentsWe would like to thank our research assistants: Kittima Leeruttanawisut in Bangkok, and Nguyen Hai Thanh as well as the FAVRI (Fruit and Vegetable Research Institute) in Hanoi. We would like to thank Christophe Soulard for his insights at the early stage of this paper, and David Giband for his comments and suggestions that helped improve this paper. Finally, the first versions of this paper were mostly written during lockdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic, therefore we would like to acknowledge our families’ support to take care of our children while we were writing.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThe research presented in this paper has received financial support from INRAE, CNRS, the MITI interdisciplinary programs (under the MUTALIM program), the MUSE-EXPLORE#2 Program (Montpellier Université d’Excellence), and from a Chicago State University sabbatical award.
摘要街头贩卖最近引起了全球北方和南方城市政府的关注。本文主要研究了曼谷、芝加哥、河内和蒙彼利埃四个城市对街头食品贩卖的监管及其执行情况。它借鉴了定性访谈、档案和报纸研究以及民族志。监管框架提出了几个问题，因为它们剥夺了往往处于弱势地位的群体获得空间和收入的机会，并且忽视了街头食品在城市食品体系中的作用。我们表明，法规的实际执行在城市之间和城市内部以及供应商之间是不平衡的。在某些情况下，围绕执法展开的街头谈判实际上可能减轻对弱势商贩的负面影响。因此，对街头食品贩卖的管理似乎比现有的正式法规更加微妙。我们认为，法规的设计应该更好地考虑街头小贩的声音和他们的需求。我们要感谢我们的研究助理:曼谷的Kittima Leeruttanawisut、Nguyen Hai Thanh以及河内果蔬研究所(FAVRI)。我们要感谢Christophe Soulard在本文早期阶段提出的真知灼见，以及David Giband提出的意见和建议，这些都有助于本文的完善。最后，本文的第一版主要是在COVID-19大流行导致的封锁期间完成的，因此我们要感谢我们的家人在我们写作期间照顾我们的孩子。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。本文中的研究得到了INRAE、CNRS、MITI跨学科项目(MUTALIM项目下)、MUSE-EXPLORE#2项目(蒙彼利埃大学卓越项目)和芝加哥州立大学休假奖的财政支持。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-07DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2275426
Mateja Kovacic, Simon Marvin, Aidan While
Sidewalk delivery robots are increasingly being deployed in diverse urban contexts, raising issues about the most appropriate form of regulation to maintain pedestrian flows and protect the public. This paper examines the evolution of sidewalk robot governance in a “hot spot” of urban robotic application in the State of California (USA), where different municipal authorities have experimented with prohibitive, permissive and collaborative forms of sidewalk re-regulation in response to the various potential disruptions and risks associated with the new technology. Combining detailed policy analysis and interviews, the paper takes forward literature on the regulatory challenges and opportunities in making space for urban robotics as a disruptive technology.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-31DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2271748
Austin Dziwornu Ablo
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Pub Date : 2023-10-21DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2023.2257473
Elsa Koleth, Linda Peake, Nasya Razavi, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
How do decolonial feminist urban imaginaries of urban futures begin to interrogate twenty-first century urban life? The urban futures signaled in this special issue highlight three dimensions of urban imaginaries. The first connects the privatization and commodification of urban infrastructures to state-based and capitalist discursive efforts to make the urban. The second concerns temporal convergences of past, present and future in visions of the urban that reproduce the recursive logics of coloniality by re-mapping the landscapes of urban inequality and dispossession through encounters with sedimentations of colonial and neocolonial formations. Third, authors take up the everyday as a site of struggle through which women’s negotiations and placemaking practices offer alternative urban imaginaries. These articles are based on papers given at the 2019 “Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures” conference organized by the transnational feminist research project, “Urbanization and Gender in the Global South: A Transformative Knowledge Network” (GenUrb).
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