ISSN:
0263-7758
,
0263-7758
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Environment & planning : international journal of urban and regional research
Publ. der Quelle:
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage
Angaben zur Quelle:
39,2021,4, Seiten 573-589
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Urban promises
;
anticipation
;
minor futures
;
detachment
;
standby
;
majority districts
;
Sozialwissenschaften
Abstract:
Cities are promising machines always holding out prospects for better lives, always attempting to guarantee that things will not remain the same and that whatever changes do ensue are for the better. We propose a notion of “promise” not as simply another descriptor in a long line of adjectives about the city. Rather, we argue that the urban institutional landscape constantly generates new promises as way of anticipation, which in turn allows residents to write themselves into select urban operations. This article engages two central districts in Rio de Janeiro and Jakarta to explore how residents “stand by” the promise, not of passive waiting, but as maneuvers of either staying tuned to or as way of tactical detachment from the multiple trajectories which have been conjured up in the here and now. We understand these maneuvers as acts of “minor” future making that rely upon practices and materials that may seem of little use, but which enable a process of incremental small adjustments and collective subversion of urban trajectories of the transitory.
Abstract:
Peer Reviewed
Note:
This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.
DOI:
10.1177/0263775820982997
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/24581-2
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