Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies
Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies
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消除南方城市批评的歧义：更加全球化的城市研究的主张、路径和可能性
作者：
M. Lawhon;Yaffa Truelove
南方学者对北方城市理论的介入一直困扰着城市研究的核心。在这个关键时刻，我们认为，重要的是要澄清核心主张，并呼吁注意的趋同点和不和谐之间的“南方城市批评”的倡导者。我们简要回顾了这个学术界的基本论点，然后概述了这种批评的来源的三个不同的迭代：南方是经验上不同的;欧美霸权工程取代知识传统的多样性;和后殖民的遭遇需要的研究实践的批判性审问。然后，我们考虑是否南方城市批判是一个独特的南方城市主义的研究，本体论的立场，所有的理论或战术策略，呼吁注意边缘化的地方和想法被取代的世界城市的城市研究的社会空间的偶然性。我们希望我们的努力有助于进一步的对话和更大的分析清晰度，使更严格和更有力的阐述南方城市批判的确切对象和目标，更普遍的城市研究。
Scholarship engaging with (northern) urban theory from the south has troubled the core of urban studies. At this critical juncture, we argue that it is important to clarify core propositions and call attention to points of convergence and dissonance amongst advocates of ‘the southern urban critique’. We briefly review foundational arguments for this scholarly community, then outline three distinct iterations of the source of this critique: the south is empirically different; EuroAmerican hegemony works to displace a diversity of intellectual traditions; and the postcolonial encounter requires the critical interrogation of research practices. We then consider whether the southern urban critique is an argument for the study of a distinct southern urbanism, an ontological position about the socio-spatial contingency of all theorisation or a tactical strategy for calling attention to marginalised places and ideas to be superseded by an urban studies of a world of cities. We hope our efforts contribute to further conversation and greater analytical clarity, enabling more rigorous and robust articulations of the precise objects and objectives of the southern urban critique in particular, and urban studies more generally.