Dislocating Urban Theory: Learning with Food-Vending Practices in Colombo and Delhi
International audience 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. Ow...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-03364812v1 2023-05-15T17:36:37+02:00 Dislocating Urban Theory: Learning with Food-Vending Practices in Colombo and Delhi Palat Narayanan, Nipesh Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales (PACTE) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble (IEPG) Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI) Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique (Grant 181271) 2021 https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03364812 https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03364812/document https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03364812/file/DislocatingUrbanTheory.pdf https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12769 en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/anti.12769 hal-03364812 https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03364812 https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03364812/document https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03364812/file/DislocatingUrbanTheory.pdf doi:10.1111/anti.12769 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/ info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess CC-BY-NC ISSN: 0066-4812 EISSN: 1467-8330 Antipode https://hal.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/hal-03364812 Antipode, 2021, ⟨10.1111/anti.12769⟩ urban informality Southern Theory knowledge hegemony street food South Asia [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2021 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12769 2023-02-22T02:54:04Z International audience 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 concentration, concerns of the metropolis often become (or are made to become) concerns of the periphery. Taking informality as a practice, not embedded in people (marginalised) or places (settlements), I will outline how the study of informality has assured the lineage of metropolitan concerns. Moving away from informal-formal dichotomy, the paper mobilises informal-urban dialectic to identify and dislocate the metropolitan concerns of urban theory. Discussing empirical cases from Delhi and Colombo, I build a narrative of academic theorisation of informality and juxtapose it with everyday narrative of its practitioners (food vendors), arguing towards the need for a plural and radically non-global knowledge production politics. R esum e: La th eorie urbaine, produite dans les «centres» du «Nord», a et e impos ee comme universelle; or des etudes urbaines r ecentes ont montr e les limites de cette th eorie, appelant a un «tournant vers le Sud» (Southern turn) afin de d econstruire la concentration du pouvoir et du savoir dans la m etropole. En effet, du fait de cette concentration, les pr eoccupations de la m etropole deviennent souvent les pr eoccupations de la p eriph erie. En prenant l'informalit e comme une pratique (donc non li ee a des personnes ou a des lieux), je montrerai comment l' etude de l'informalit e a donn e la primaut e a des pr eoccupations m etropolitaines. S' eloignant de la dichotomie informel/formel, l'article mobilise la dialectique informel/urbain pour identifier et d econstruire les pr eoccupations m etropolitaines de la th eorie urbaine. En discutant de cas empiriques, provenant de Delhi et de Colombo, je construis un r ecit de la th eorisation acad emique de l'informalit e, que ... Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Colombo ENVELOPE(-144.733,-144.733,-76.517,-76.517) Antipode 54 2 526 544 |
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International audience 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 concentration, concerns of the metropolis often become (or are made to become) concerns of the periphery. Taking informality as a practice, not embedded in people (marginalised) or places (settlements), I will outline how the study of informality has assured the lineage of metropolitan concerns. Moving away from informal-formal dichotomy, the paper mobilises informal-urban dialectic to identify and dislocate the metropolitan concerns of urban theory. Discussing empirical cases from Delhi and Colombo, I build a narrative of academic theorisation of informality and juxtapose it with everyday narrative of its practitioners (food vendors), arguing towards the need for a plural and radically non-global knowledge production politics. R esum e: La th eorie urbaine, produite dans les «centres» du «Nord», a et e impos ee comme universelle; or des etudes urbaines r ecentes ont montr e les limites de cette th eorie, appelant a un «tournant vers le Sud» (Southern turn) afin de d econstruire la concentration du pouvoir et du savoir dans la m etropole. En effet, du fait de cette concentration, les pr eoccupations de la m etropole deviennent souvent les pr eoccupations de la p eriph erie. En prenant l'informalit e comme une pratique (donc non li ee a des personnes ou a des lieux), je montrerai comment l' etude de l'informalit e a donn e la primaut e a des pr eoccupations m etropolitaines. S' eloignant de la dichotomie informel/formel, l'article mobilise la dialectique informel/urbain pour identifier et d econstruire les pr eoccupations m etropolitaines de la th eorie urbaine. En discutant de cas empiriques, provenant de Delhi et de Colombo, je construis un r ecit de la th eorisation acad emique de l'informalit e, que ... |
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Pacte, Laboratoire de sciences sociales (PACTE) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble (IEPG) Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence (UniFI) Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique (Grant 181271) |
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Dislocating Urban Theory: Learning with Food-Vending Practices in Colombo and Delhi |
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Dislocating Urban Theory: Learning with Food-Vending Practices in Colombo and Delhi |
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