GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place
GeoHumanities: Art, History, Text at the Edge of Place
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地理人文：地方边缘的艺术、历史、文本
DOI：
10.1080/14702541.2011.628787
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
Isla Forsyth
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作者：
Isla Forsyth
这一版的57本读物中，只有12本是在第一版上架后出版的，这表明这本书的成功是建立在稳步发展的基础上的，而不是不断的重新发明。因此，如果说对这本书有什么批评的话，那就是它很难代表城市研究的“前沿”：这本书肯定迫切需要一个关于城市理论的章节，更多地关注酷儿、后殖民和女权主义的解读，中东的新城市化可能会带来更多的变化（例如迪拜和阿布扎比这样的城市，迈克戴维斯形容为“邪恶的天堂”）。就我个人而言，我也发现多琳·梅西关于伦敦作为一个世界城市的有影响力的工作的遗漏令人困惑，因为它提出了关于城市关系的重要观点。这就是说，这本书继续销售的基础上，它供奉的佳能在城市研究-也许误导，因为它现在包含的散文，特别是书面的收集。随着新的视觉材料的加入，读者越来越多地呈现出教科书的外观和感觉，而不是读者。鉴于此，这本书很可能不会像编辑最初打算的那样-作为与教科书一起阅读的入门读物，引导学生阅读原创研究论文和专著-而是作为学生在介绍城市模块时可能会参考的唯一文本。因此，这本书的受欢迎程度是完全可以解释的，但有人怀疑这可能是有代价的：也就是说，它关闭了，而不是打开了，学生广泛阅读的可能性。
only 12 of the 57 readings in this edition have been published since the first edition first hit the shelves, suggesting the success of the book is based on a steady evolution rather than ceaseless reinvention. If there is a criticism of the book, therefore, it is that it hardly represents the ‘cutting edge’ of urban research: the book is surely crying out for a section on urban theory that pays more attention to queer, post-colonial and feminist readings, and there might be more that could be made of the new urbanisms found in the Middle East (e.g. cities like Dubai and Abu Dhabi which Mike Davis describes as ‘evil paradises’). Personally, I also found the omission of Doreen Massey’s influential work on London as a world city puzzling given it raises important points about the relationality of cities. This said, the book continues to sell on the basis that it enshrines the canon in urban studies – perhaps misleadingly given it now contains essays especially written for the collection. With the addition of new visual material, the Reader is increasingly taking on the look and feel of a textbook rather than a reader. This given, it is highly likely the book will not be used as the editors originally intended – as a primer to be read alongside a textbook, leading students towards original research papers and monographs – but as the only text students might consult on an introductory urban module. The popularity of this volume is entirely explicable therefore, but one suspects this might come at a cost: namely, that it closes down, rather than opens up, the possibility of students reading widely around the subject.