Planetary concerns
Planetary concerns
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行星问题
DOI：
10.1080/13604813.2018.1434304
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2018
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A. Loftus
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A. Loftus
这篇文章回应了通过行星折射哈维的不平衡发展理论的挑战。它通过质疑“行星”在最近的城市和环境研究工作中作为抽象概念发挥作用的方式来做到这一点。现在，一些人将城市研究领域框定为夹在两个视角之间--“行星”和“日常”--我反对这种类型学，认为它未能反映该领域的现状，是真正好奇的学术实践的障碍。然而，我反对这种短视的领域观点，认为我们可以通过将行星视为抽象过程中的一个时刻来重新思考当前的行星转向。我认为，行星不是作为分析的起点--整个行星转向的概念似乎表明了这一点--而是需要被视为一个到达点，一个只有通过批判性学术的辛勤工作才能达到的社会关系的集合。我首先详细描述了所谓的城市和环境思想中的行星转向，然后再看看与更多的位置或日常生活相对立的简单化的类型。然后，我建议通过重新思考抽象和具体之间的关系来选择另一种框架。最后，我倡导一种实践哲学。
This paper responds to the challenge to refract Harvey’s theory of uneven development through the planetary. It does so by questioning the way in which ‘the planetary’ has functioned as an abstraction within recent work in urban and environmental studies. With some now framing the field of urban studies as caught between two perspectives—‘the planetary’ and ‘the everyday’—I reject such a typology, arguing that it fails to reflect the current state of the field and is an obstacle to the practice of genuinely inquisitive scholarship. Writing against such a myopic view of the field, I nevertheless argue that we might rethink the current planetary turn through considering the planetary as one moment in a process of abstraction. Rather than the planetary serving as the starting point for an analysis—as the whole notion of a planetary turn seems to suggest—I argue that the planetary needs to be considered an arrival point, an ensemble of social relations that can only be arrived at through the hard work of critical scholarship. I begin by detailing the so-called planetary turn in urban and environmental thought before looking at the simplistic typologies counterposing such a position to the more situated or everyday. I then suggest an alternative framing by rethinking the relationship between the abstract and the concrete. I conclude by advocating for a philosophy of praxis.