Provincializing Critical Urban Theory: Extending the Ecosystem of Possibilities
Provincializing Critical Urban Theory: Extending the Ecosystem of Possibilities
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地方化批判城市理论：扩展可能性的生态系统
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2016
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通讯作者：
E. Sheppard
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H. Leitner;E. Sheppard
我们倡导将批判的城市理论地方化，试图超越目前关于城市理论基础的两极分化和争议，创造空间来认真考虑这样一种可能性，即没有任何单一的理论足以解释世界各地城市化和城市的多样性。这种地方化需要认真接触主流和批判性的英语城市理论，从位于核心之外的边缘视角的角度，通过严格的理论和经验审查来挑战知识主张的表面自然性。这需要承认存在一个不断变化的批判性城市理论生态系统，让这些理论相互之间进行公平的批判性对话。城市理论的集体韧性将取决于对这种多样性的持续参与。这种生态系统的核心是实践中的转变，寻求一种新的比较分析，破坏主导规范的普遍性，所有其他范例都要与之进行比较，必须认真对待这一领域。
Advocating a provincialization of critical urban theory, we seek to move beyond current polarizations and disputes over the basis of urban theory, creating space to take seriously the possibility that no single theory suffices to account for the variegated nature of urbanization and cities across the world. Such provincialization requires a serious engagement with both mainstream and critical Anglophone urban theory, challenging the seeming naturalness of knowledge claims through rigorous theoretical and empirical scrutiny from the standpoint of peripheral perspectives located outside the core. This entails recognizing the existence of a shifting ecosystem of critical urban theories, putting these into even-handed critical conversation with one another. The collective resilience of urban theory will be dependent upon ongoing engagement across such diversity. At the heart of such an ecosystem are shifts in practice, seeking a new comparative analytic that destabilizes the universalism of the dominant norm, against which all other exemplars are to be compared, with the imperative of taking the field seriously.