尼日利亚伊巴丹的城市更新:世界级,但本质上是约鲁巴人

IF 1.9 1区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES African Affairs Pub Date : 2021-07-26 DOI:10.1093/AFRAF/ADAB021
P. Roelofs
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城市更新是非洲大陆“世界级”城市愿景的核心:拆除和驱逐体现了国家重组城市空间的权力,优先考虑精英形式的积累,并强制执行清洁、秩序和现代性的审美规范。无处不在的世界级城市建设被城市研究学者视为非洲领导人汇聚在一个统一的有抱负的城市想象中的证据。本文认为,世界一流的概念应该被理解为非洲各国政府表达其独特而多样的理想抱负的关键领域。在尼日利亚西南部的奥约州,州长利用当地的政治传统——以奥巴费米·阿沃洛思想为中心的约鲁巴文化民族主义——使城市更新合法化。借鉴约鲁巴人的观念,精英主义可以“普遍化”,全球化城市形式的培养不仅是一个变得越来越同质化的“国际”项目,而且是一个历史基础的愿望,成为更本质的约鲁巴人。因此,除了用来使新自由主义城市发展合法化的话语中的共性——世界级的、国际性的和全球性的——这些听起来普遍的想象可能同时表达出更特殊的政治计划。
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Urban renewal in Ibadan, Nigeria: World class but essentially Yoruba
Urban renewal is central to ‘world-class’ city aspirations on the African continent: demolitions and evictions exemplify the power of the state to restructure urban space, prioritizing elite forms of accumulation and enforcing aesthetic norms of cleanliness, order and modernity. The ubiquity of world-class city-making has been taken by urban studies scholars as evidence of African leaders’ converging on a unitary aspirational urban imaginary. This article contends that the concept of world class should instead be understood as a key terrain on which African governments’ distinctive and diverse ideational ambitions are expressed. In Oyo State, southwest Nigeria, vernacular political traditions—in this case Yoruba cultural nationalism centred on the ideas of Obafemi Awolowo—were deployed by the state governor to legitimize urban renewal. Drawing on the Yoruba notion that elitism can be ‘generalized’, the cultivation of globalized urban forms was not only a project of becoming ever more homogenously ‘international’ but a historically grounded aspiration to become ever more essentially Yoruba. Thus, beyond commonalities across the discourses used to legitimize neoliberal urban development—world class, international and global—these universal sounding imaginaries may at the same time express much more particularistic political projects.
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期刊介绍: African Affairs is published on behalf of the Royal African Society. It publishes articles on recent political, social and economic developments in sub-Saharan countries. Also included are historical studies that illuminate current events in the continent. Each issue of African Affairs contains a substantial section of book reviews, with occasional review articles. There is also an invaluable list of recently published books, and a listing of articles on Africa that have appeared in non-Africanist journals.
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