Peri-urbanisation and the political ecology of differential sustainability
Peri-urbanisation and the political ecology of differential sustainability
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半城市化与差异可持续性的政治生态
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10.4324/9780203387832.ch43
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2014
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A. Allen
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A. Allen
尽管人们更加认识到城市化在可持续发展中发挥的作用，但在理解城市化作为自然和社会关系新陈代谢的特定社会空间过程如何运作方面，仍然存在持续的盲点。本章通过聚焦当今全球南方许多城市地区所特有的不平等的近城市化进程，探讨了当今全球南方所面临的所谓“城市转型”。核心论点是，新兴的城郊地区越来越多地在“差异可持续性”的条件下形成，即通过调整门槛来满足某些特权社会群体和地区的需求和愿望，而牺牲其他群体和地区的利益。在这种背景下，所谓的土地和生态系统服务的“模糊监管”通常是半城市化进程的特征，也可以被解释为一种有意的战略，它有助于城市扩张的经济自由化，典当重要生态系统服务的可持续性，并强化城市周边贫困人口作为生产者和合法公民的隐形性。本章借鉴全球南方的广泛背景，采用政治生态学的视角来探讨差异性可持续性是如何产生、复制和挑战的，会产生什么后果以及为谁带来影响。
Despite a greater acknowledgement of the role that urbanisation plays in sustainable development, there are, however, persistent blind spots in the understanding of how urbanisation operates as a particular socio-spatial process of metabolising nature and social relations. This chapter examines the so-called ‘urban transitions’ faced by the global south today, by zooming into the processes of unequal peri-urbanisation that characterise many urban regions of the global south today. The central argument is that the emerging peri-urban geographies are increasingly being shaped under conditions of ‘differential sustainability’, that is by adjusting thresholds to meet the needs and wants of certain privileged social groups and territories at the expense of others. In this context, the alleged ‘fuzzy regulation’ of land and ecosystem services that often characterises peri-urbanisation processes can also be interpreted as a deliberate strategy that assists the economic liberalisation of urban expansion, pawning the sustainability of vital ecosystem services and reinforcing the invisibility of the peri-urban poor both as producers and rightful citizens. Drawing from a wide-range of contexts across the global south, the chapter adopts a political ecology perspective to explore how differential sustainability is being produced, reproduced and challenged, with what consequences and for whom.