Limbo urbanism: developing planning theories and practices from small but rapidly urbanising places in the South West Asian/North African region

《地狱边境城市主义：从西南亚/北非地区小型但快速城市化的地方发展规划理论和实践》

• 批准号: ES/Y007735/1
• 负责人: Hannah Sender
• 金额: $ 15.12万
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY007735%2F1
• 关键词: Limbo; urbanism; developing; planning; theories

'Limbo urbanism' will generate publications and academic-practitioner discussions about rapid urbanisation in previously 'overlooked' urban places (Ruszczyk et al., 2020), and prepare the partnerships and intellectual ground for a three-year fellowship proposal. The fellowship asks: what are the challenges facing urban planners working in small towns affected by mass forced migration, when seeking to harness limited resources and address the diverse needs of an unstable and diverse resident population?The primary focus of this fellowship is the publication of a monograph and two-to-three open access journal articles based on ethnographic research in Lebanon and written up as a PhD thesis. In the thesis, I examined the trajectories and impacts of rapid urbanisation in Marj, Majdal Anjar and Bar Elias in Lebanon, whose demographics and environments have been affected by mass forced migration from Syria. Whilst forced migrants have been blamed for increasing poverty rates and poor resource management in Lebanon, I argued that historical inequitable planning practices enmesh with major global events to create common fears among Syrian and Lebanese residents, about their futures in these towns. Developing work by Fawaz, al-Hage and Harb (2021), I showed that both groups of residents expect to face increasingly difficult living situations as a result of exploitative agrarian-capitalist labour practices, and an inequitable housing rental market. I proposed a theoretical framework for understanding the enmeshment of planning practices with forced migration, and its impacts on residents.I will write a book proposal which revises my thesis as an Urban Studies monograph. I have identified UCL Press as a potential publisher, with a track record of publishing Urban Studies and Planning Studies, and as open access publishers. I will author two-to-three open access journal articles, to be submitted to UCL's Transformative Agreement (open-access) journals such as Urban Planning, Urban Studies and Geoforum. These will summarise two empirical chapters and a part of the methodology chapter from the thesis. I will use early-stage feedback from reviewers to inform the monograph. I aim to have published these journal articles and been offered a book contract prior to submitting a proposal for a three-year fellowship. I will author the monograph in concert with a seminar series, in which I will create a network of scholars, planning practitioners and planning activists with intersecting expertise. I thereby aim to expand the reach of my research to other geographies in the Levantine and SWANA region, and to ensure maximum impact of the research by sharing it with people who might use the work for teaching, further research, and policy-formation. The series will expand four core debates which were discussed in the thesis, under the umbrella term, 'Limbo urbanism'. These debates concern: what constitutes 'the urban' and 'urbanisation'; planning from the 'periphery' of national political geographies; declining and emerging economies of small urban places in predominantly rural regions; and, the uncertain futures of rapid urbanisation trajectories. I will host the series across three institutions: University College London's Geography Department, Development Planning Unit and American University of Beirut's Beirut Urban Lab. Through this workshop series, I aim to identify a team of scholars who are prepared to advise on a three-year fellowship proposal, for the ESRC New Investigator, Leverhulme Early Career and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship schemes. With my mentor's guidance, I will establish a small advisory group from workshop speakers and participants. Together, we will identify funders, core themes, questions and methodologies to build a case for support by the end of the fellowship.

“ Limbo Urbanism”将引起关于以前“被忽视的”城市场所快速城市化的出版物和学术证明者的讨论（Ruszczyk等，2020），并为三年的奖学金提案做准备的合作伙伴关系和知识分子。奖学金询问：在试图利用有限的资源并满足不稳定和多样化的居民人口的多元化需求时，在受大规模迁移影响的小城镇中工作的城市规划师面临的挑战是什么？这项奖学金的主要重点是专着的出版物和两到三到第三次的开放式期刊，基于Ethnographic of Lebanon和ledbanon的书面著作。在论文中，我研究了黎巴嫩的Marj，Majdal Anjar和Bar Elias的快速城市化的轨迹和影响，他们的人口统计和环境受到叙利亚大规模强迫迁移的影响。尽管强迫移民被指责为黎巴嫩的贫困率和资源管理差，但我认为，历史上不平等的规划实践与全球重大事件的历史性不平等计划实践有关，以在叙利亚和黎巴嫩居民之间引起人们对这些城镇的未来的共同恐惧。我表明，由于剥削性的农业 - 资本主义劳动习惯和不平等的住房租赁市场，这两组居民都在开发Fawaz，al-Hage and Harb（2021）（2021）（2021）的工作。我提出了一个理论框架，以理解强迫移民的计划实践及其对居民的影响。我将撰写一本书提案，以修改我作为城市研究专着的论文。我已经将UCL Press确定为潜在的出版商，并具有出版城市研究和规划研究以及开放式出版商的记录。我将撰写两到三篇开放式访问期刊文章，并将提交UCL的变革性协议（开放式）期刊，例如城市规划，城市研究和Geoforum。这些将总结两个经验章节和论文的方法论一部分的一部分。我将使用审稿人的早期反馈来通知专着。我的目标是发表这些期刊文章，并在提交三年奖学金的提案之前获得了书本合同。我将与一个研讨会系列共同创作专着，其中我将建立一个具有相交专业知识的学者，计划从业人员和计划活动家的网络。因此，我旨在将我的研究范围扩展到黎凡特和Swana地区的其他地理位置，并通过与可能将工作用于教学，进一步研究和政策形成的人们共享研究来确保研究的最大影响。该系列将扩大四个核心辩论，这些核心辩论是在论文中讨论的，即“ Limbo Urbanism”。这些辩论涉及：什么构成“城市”和“城市化”；来自国家政治地理的“外围”计划；主要是农村地区的小城市地点的下降和新兴经济体；而且，快速城市化轨迹的不确定未来。我将在三个机构中主持该系列：伦敦大学地理系，发展规划部门和美国贝鲁特大学的贝鲁特城市实验室。通过这个研讨会的系列，我旨在确定一支准备就三年的奖学金提案提供建议的学者团队，为ESRC新调查员，Leverhulme早期职业和英国学院博士后研究金计划。在我的导师的指导下，我将建立一个由讲习班演讲者和参与者的小型咨询小组。我们将共同确定资助者，核心主题，问题和方法论，以在奖学金结束前建立支持。