Dislocating Urban Theory: Learning with Food‐Vending Practices in Colombo and Delhi

• Published in: Antipode
• Main Author: Palat Narayanan, Nipesh
• Other Authors: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: Colombo; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/anti.12769; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/anti.12769; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/anti.12769

Abstract Urban theory, produced in North Atlantic centres, has been perpetrated as universal and recent urban studies have pointed to the limits of this theory, calling for a Southern turn. The Southern call is to dislocate the concentration of power and knowledge in the metropolis. Owing to this co...