ISBN:
9781000767575
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (137 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms Ser.
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
301.360975
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Cities and towns-Southern States
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Towards a better understanding of southern cities -- From learning to unlearn to learning anew -- From Kansas to KwaZulu-Natal -- Outline of the book -- Notes -- 1 Postcolonialism and urban studies -- The emergence of the southern urban critique -- Note -- 2 Disambiguating the southern urban critique -- The null proposition: speaking from the south is an argument against (all& -- #x002F -- northern) theory and in favour of particularism and empiricism -- Proposition 1: the south is empirically different -- Proposition 2: the south has had different intellectual traditions -- Proposition 3: researchers need to deconstruct their assumptions with regard to southern (and all) cities -- 3 Provincializing the urban question -- The urban question -- The application of definitions of "the urban" to African cities -- The city as modern, good, desirable, white and European -- Notes -- 4 The struggle for the city, and for the right to be city -- A brief history of "the urban" in South Africa -- Methods and modes of response -- What is the city? -- Is your city my city? Race, place and the meaning of the city -- Is the city for me? The aspiration to belong to the thing-called-city -- Implications and future directions -- Note -- 5 Teaching urban geography after the southern urban critique -- Representation of northern and southern cities in urban geography textbooks -- Implications for teaching urban geography -- How ought we teach about elsewhere? -- Note -- 6 Pathways forward -- Pathway 1: southern urbanism is and ought to be studied as a distinct phenomenon -- Pathway 2: the southern urban critique is an ontological position against universality and asserting the subjectivity and locatedness of all theory.
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