Postcolonialising Informality?
Postcolonialising Informality?
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后殖民化非正规化？
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2013
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A. Varley
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A. Varley
近年来，随着建筑和规划重新引起人们的兴趣，城市的非正式性一直是人们重新关注的主题。然而，对非正式性的关注被批评为复兴了殖民等级制度，将整个城市描述为缺乏，并使它们永远低于西方城市。后殖民主义城市研究的呼声得到了一种新兴文学的响应，而这一文学忽视了拉丁美洲。因此，本文考察了该地区最近关于城市非正规性的工作，这些工作与其他学术研究在后殖民和城市研究的交叉点上产生了共鸣。拉丁美洲的工作特点是强调非正式性作为抵抗，并挑战正式/非正式的二元结构。然而，它对非洲大陆的“贫民化”可能会延续二元论的解释，巩固或颠覆刻板印象，而不是破坏它们。这篇论文还询问，后殖民时代对其他地方的非正式性的解读可以有助于理解拉丁美洲的经验。
Urban informality has been the subject of renewed attention in recent years, with a resurgence of interest from architecture and planning. A focus on informality has however been criticised as reviving colonial hierarchies, characterising entire cities in terms of lack and rendering them perpetually inferior to Western cities. The call to postcolonialise urban studies has been answered by an emerging literature which has neglected Latin America. This paper therefore examines recent work on urban informality in the region that resonates with other scholarship at the intersection of postcolonial and urban studies. The Latin American work is characterised by an emphasis on informality as resistance and by challenges to the formal/informal binary. Its ‘favela-isation’ of the continent can however perpetuate dualistic interpretations, entrenching or inverting stereotypes rather than disrupting them. The paper also asks what postcolonial readings of informality from elsewhere can contribute to understanding Latin American experience.