From Chicago to China and India: Studying the City in the Twenty-First Century
From Chicago to China and India: Studying the City in the Twenty-First Century
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从芝加哥到中国和印度：研究二十一世纪的城市
DOI：
10.1146/annurev-soc-073117-041131
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
10.5
通讯作者：
Xuefei Ren
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作者：
Xuefei Ren
自20世纪最后25年以来，以中国和印度为中心的全球南方城市取得了惊人的增长。本文批判性地评估了全球城市研究领域的现状，并特别关注与中国和印度城市相关的学术研究。本文确定了学术研究中的三个主要范式：全球城市理论、新自由主义和后殖民主义。与美国城市社会学不同的是，美国城市社会学通常专注于社区效应如何再现不平等的问题，而全球城市研究则考虑了更广泛的城市进程，如全球城市网络、社会两极分化和建筑环境的转变。本文指出了美国城市社会学与全球城市研究之间的脱节，并提出了一种比较方法来弥合这一鸿沟。
Since the last quarter of the twentieth century, cities in the Global South have seen extraordinary growth, with China and India as the epicenters of urbanization. This essay critically assesses the state of the field of global urban studies and focuses particularly on the scholarship relating to urban China and India. The essay identifies three dominant paradigms in the scholarship: the global city thesis, neoliberalism, and postcolonialism. In contrast to US urban sociology, which is often preoccupied with the question of how neighborhood effects reproduce inequality, global urban studies account for a much wider array of urban processes, such as global urban networks, social polarization, and the transformation of the built environment. This essay points out the disconnect between US urban sociology and global urban studies and proposes a comparative approach as a way to bridge the divide.