Periurban Cartographies
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Author: Dr Victoria Jane Marshall
This book looks to consider what a city is or could be, by challenging existing assumptions and reconsidering common design practices. The research draws on descriptions of everyday life and diffuse power in periurban Gangetic West Bengal/Kolkata. It does so in the hope of enriching our understanding of incremental modes of political empowerment and the futures they make. The book is a contribution to work being done on urban theory-building from outside the Global North.The intention is to not just communicate the transformations at work in creating a particular “kind of urban”, but also to point to connections that make us rethink the ways in which change happens. It is not simply a look at a novel and singular condition in and of itself but uses that singularity to better understand periurbanism generally and urban political ecologies particularly. Current scholarship in urban political ecology reminds us of some of the enduring tensions around the conceptualisations of region, socio-natures and agency, and practice. The urban political ecology approach in this book offers a way of moving past some of these tensions.
ISBN 9781957183787. ORO Editions. pb. 384 pages. 24 x 16 cm.
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This book looks to consider what a city is or could be, by challenging existing assumptions and reconsidering common design practices. The research draws on descriptions of everyday life and diffuse power in periurban Gangetic West Bengal/Kolkata. It does so in the hope of enriching our understanding of incremental modes of political empowerment and the futures they make. The book is a contribution to work being done on urban theory-building from outside the Global North.The intention is to not just communicate the transformations at work in creating a particular “kind of urban”, but also to point to connections that make us rethink the ways in which change happens. It is not simply a look at a novel and singular condition in and of itself but uses that singularity to better understand periurbanism generally and urban political ecologies particularly. Current scholarship in urban political ecology reminds us of some of the enduring tensions around the conceptualisations of region, socio-natures and agency, and practice. The urban political ecology approach in this book offers a way of moving past some of these tensions.
ISBN 9781957183787. ORO Editions. pb. 384 pages. 24 x 16 cm.
available