| 1. |
- Ahmed, Nabeela, et al.
(författare)
-
Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university
- 2022
-
Ingår i: City. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 26:4, s. 562-586
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We are an international collective of Early Career Academics (ECAs) who met throughout 2020 to explore the implications of COVID-19 on precarious academics. With this intervention, our aims are to voice commonly shared experiences and concerns and to reflect on the extent to which the pandemic offers opportunities to redefine Higher Education and research institutions, in a context of ongoing precarity and funding cuts. Specifically, we explore avenues to build solidarity across institutions and geographies, to ensure that the conduct of urban research, and support offered to ECAs, allows for more inclusivity, diversity, security and equitability.
|
|
| 2. |
- Amin, Ash
(författare)
-
Telescopic urbanism and the poor
- 2013
-
Ingår i: City. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 17:4, s. 476-492
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)
|
|
| 3. |
- Baeten, Guy
(författare)
-
Hypochondriac Geographies of the City and the New Urban Dystopia : Coming to Terms with the ‘Other’ City
- 2002
-
Ingår i: City. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 6:1, s. 103-115
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper questions the 'peculiar epistemological framework of problems' (p. 107) through which the city has come to be considered in the academic and policy arena, in politics of both the Left and Right, and in urban sociology, planning, architecture and other areas of urban study. Baeten argues that contemporary terminology, for example, displays a negativity towards the city, a fear of the unknown city, by turns explicit (in a discourse which favours a lexicon of 'exclusion', 'deprivation' and 'polarization') and implicit (an 'urban renaissance' presumably emerges from an urban Dark Age). In these current projections of dystopia the author identifies parallels with 19th-century obsessions and frameworks of urban morality - the categorization of an underclass, and positioning of the city's poor as 'deserving' or 'underserving'. Baeten uses recent work on Orientalist constructions of the Other in a bid to contest such negative presentation of the city in current urban studies. There are interesting links here with Gil Doron's work in this issue of City.
|
|
| 4. |
- Baeten, Guy
(författare)
-
Inner-city misery : Real and imagined
- 2004
-
Ingår i: City. - : Routledge. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 8:2, s. 235-241
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The geography of urban deprivation is both real and ‘imagined’. The combination leads to biased and often quite polarized views of cities, their dynamics and their future. Unfortunately the tendency is to depict poverty and deprivation as ugly, as an ‘improper’ part of urban life which should be eradicated and replaced by ‘proper’ middle‐class physical constructions and social structures. But research which avoids the ‘imagining’ shows that this is an unacceptable view of the the inner city where in fact people, despite their poverty, set up a wide array of social, cultural and economic networks of real meaning, which enable them to enter the labour market, to develop mutual support and to participate in cultural activities of all kinds, just like anybody else.
|
|
| 5. |
- Chan, Elton, 1988
(författare)
-
Take back our city: reclaiming shopping malls in Hong Kong
- 2023
-
Ingår i: City. - 1470-3629 .- 1360-4813. ; 27:5-6, s. 778-794
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Shopping malls have replaced traditional public spaces and become an integral part of urban life in many cities. This paper seeks to explore the role of shopping malls as protest sites in Hong Kong during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill protest movement in 2019. As the protests decentralised and filtered throughout the city, shopping malls became sites of protest and battlegrounds between riot police and protesters. In addition to singing and chanting, organising sit-ins, and exhibiting protest art inside shopping malls, protesters also confronted mall employees as well as disrupted businesses. Based on information gathered through media reports, planning and policy documents, as well as ethnographic observations, this paper aims to examine the role of shopping malls in the urban development of Hong Kong, their function as public spaces during the protest movement, and how the politicisation of shopping malls shaped and sustained the protest movement. This paper contends that the protesters’ appropriation of shopping malls not only represented an important first step of reclaiming the right to the city, but also exemplified how such struggle and resistance can be extended beyond traditional protest sites and into different everyday spaces.
|
|
| 6. |
- Gagyi, Agnes, 1980, et al.
(författare)
-
Introduction: boom, crisis and politics of Swiss franc mortgages in Eastern Europe: comparing trajectories of dependent financialization of housing
- 2023
-
Ingår i: City. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 27:3-4, s. 560-578
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This Special Feature is the first regional and holistic comparative study of Swiss franc (CHF) mortgages in Eastern Europe from the mid-2000s up to now. We examine this form of lending as a critical mechanism of the dependent financialization of housing in the region and look at its political and class-based repercussions in the four most significant national cases: Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Serbia. This introduction reviews and connects the so far largely separate threads of research on CHF lending (on its political economy, partisan and movement politics, and debtors’ experiences), summarizes the case studies, and draws out their key comparative insights. While lending waves originated in the same macrostructural relations and produced similar booms and crises, the management of the crises diverged significantly, depending on macroeconomic conditions, the projects of political elites, and debtors’ class background and modes of contestation. The two main openings for contestation were litigation and political pressure, with varied limitations and results across national contexts. While delivering some important achievements, the politics of debtors’ movements remained limited to a single-issue and legalistic contestation of specific predatory lending practices, which ultimately defended mortgaged homeownership from excessive financial predation. This reflects middle-class debtors’ position in the multi-scalar hierarchies of dependent financialization, and the fact that litigation was the main state infrastructure available for their contestation. We argue that more progressive reactions to housing financialization would require movement infrastructures that are able to address the multiple scales of dependent financialization, and forms of cross-class local organization that are able to pursue agendas beyond available state infrastructures.
|
|
| 7. |
- Ho, K. C.
(författare)
-
Where do community iconic structures fit in a globalizing city?
- 2006
-
Ingår i: City. - : Routledge. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 10:1, s. 91-100
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, K. C. Ho considers the iconicity of community buildings, such as schools and churches, rather than buildings of the private sector or state. Iconicity is understood as the ability of a building to be meaningful to a wider group of people. Built with the support of a particular community, community iconic buildings derive symbolic values by reflecting shared memory, identity and solidarity of a society. The paper discusses two examples of iconic community structures in Singapore, a Chinese school and a Malay mosque and describes how in each case the redefinition of state – society relations has affected the symbolic value of the architecture towards the community. In times of globalisation, community iconic structures can act as counterbalance to transnational iconic projects that often threaten to dissociate the local society. Because they are underpinned by social and civic relations of locals, community icons ensure greater cultural diversity, participation and the reproduction of life spaces.
|
|
| 8. |
- Hudson, Christine, 1950-, et al.
(författare)
-
Dealing with difference : Contested place identities in two northern Scandinavian cities
- 2019
-
Ingår i: City. - : Routledge. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 23:4-5, s. 564-579
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In an era of culturally driven growth, urban identities are of central importance for the branding of cities. However, urban identities are under constant re-negotiation as cities’ populations become more diverse. In northern Scandinavia, some cities have developed on what were traditionally Indigenous lands but have failed to acknowledge the role these roots and histories have played in shaping the city’s identity. As the numbers of Indigenous people living in cities grow and they begin to assert their right to the city, the relationship between a city’s ‘majority population’ identity and its ‘Indigenous’ identity may become contested. Looking at the northern Scandinavian cities of Tromsø (Norway) and Umeå (Sweden), we study the conflicts that have arisen around the cities’ place identity. In Tromsø, the conflicts concerned joining the Sámi Administration Area. Whereas, in Umeå, the Sámi identity of the city was contested in relation to the inauguration of Umeå as European Capital of Culture 2014. Drawing on theories of place identity, social justice and the right to the city and analysing representations of place identity in the local media and public fora, we discuss the importance of change and reproduction of urban identities and power relations in the two cities. We conclude that contestation can open up space for change and challenge the city’s dominant power relations, encouraging a resurgent politics of recognition of Indigenous identities rather than a conciliatory form of settler-state recognition that (re)produces and maintains colonial relations.
|
|
| 9. |
- Jönsson, Erik, 1983-, et al.
(författare)
-
Spectacular, realisable and ‘everyday’ : Exploring the particularities of sustainable planning in Malmö
- 2017
-
Ingår i: City. - : Routledge. - 1360-4813 .- 1470-3629. ; 21:3-4, s. 253-270
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- ‘Sustainability’, often presented through an ecological–economic–social triad, is today one of spatial planning’s absolute key concepts (and key priorities). But it is also a highly contested concept, whose meaning is often considered evasive or vague. In this paper, we try to counterweigh such evasiveness by putting emphasis on the material landscape produced within a project that is frequently depicted as a pinnacle of sustainable planning: the Western Harbour in Malmö, Sweden. Regardless of how vague discursive definitions of sustainability are, we argue that there is a sense in which planning projects such as this one help stabilise the meaning of the concept. They become material manifestations of particular takes on sustainability. Through examining what has emerged as former shipyards and factory grounds have since 2001 been transformed within the Western Harbour, we develop a heuristic triad that highlights what is presented as sustainability therein. We argue that through the Western Harbour’s development, sustainable planning becomes ‘spectacular’ through a focus on building sustainably in a way that also attracts public attention. It becomes regarded as ‘realisable’ in that it should be achievable within current political and political–economic structures. And sustainable planning becomes about the ‘everyday’ in that technological solutions for greening inhabitants’ everyday lives are developed in a way that emphasises the local scale.
|
|
| 10. |
|
|
