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Authors:Cox K; Evenhuis E. Pages: 425 - 442 Abstract: The focus of this issue of CJRES, edited by the authors and Linda Lobao (Ohio State University), is how in urban and regional studies—and research on cities and regions more generally—one goes about navigating between the divergent appeals of difference and particularity on the one hand and generality—or more ambitiously—universality on the other. This theme was prompted by the intense debates going on, especially in urban studies, on a number of issues. A signal contribution has come from Allen Scott and Michael Storper (2015). They have argued that all cities everywhere, and ever since there were cities, are subject to agglomeration economies and that their dense patterns of complementary land uses are their defining feature. They responded explicitly to the increasing influence of postcolonial critiques, as well as approaches based on actor network theory and assemblage theory, which—to various degrees—want to do away with such ‘essentialistic’ and ‘universalising’ claims. These approaches instead foreground the particularity and singularity of processes going on in and among cities across the world and take this as the starting point for a complete reformatting of urban theory (for example, Robinson, 2016). Many in urban studies did not take kindly to Scott and Storper’s intervention: ‘(…) what Scott and Storper advocate is only one of many modes of generalisation and thus only one of many ways of producing urban theory’ (Robinson and Roy, 2016, 185). PubDate: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa036 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Authors:Barnett C. Pages: 443 - 459 Abstract: AbstractRecent debates in urban theory have centred on the problem of whether universal concepts can have applications to particular places. These debates could benefit from more serious attention to how urban thought involves styles of analogical reasoning closer in spirit to casuistry than to explanatory theory. The difficult status of ‘the case’ in urban studies is explored through a consideration of different types of universality in this field, leading to a re-consideration of ideas of experimentalism and wicked problems. Further attention should be given to the multiple styles of reasoning through which urban knowledge is produced and circulated. PubDate: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa026 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Authors:Ren X. Pages: 461 - 473 Abstract: AbstractDrawing upon the scholarship in historical-comparative sociology, this article presents some guidelines for theoretically structured urban comparison by spotlighting four methodological issues: case selection, causality, historical analyses and wider implications. This is demonstrated with a comparative analysis of air pollution control in Beijing and Delhi. The analysis finds that Beijing’s clean air campaign features a territorial logic, centring on territorial institutions and authorities, while Delhi’s clean air campaign features an associational logic, led by environmental NGOs in conjunction with the judiciary. PubDate: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa017 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Authors:Gong H; Hassink R. Pages: 475 - 490 Abstract: AbstractDrawing upon critical realism and the literature on theorising in social sciences, this article contributes to the understanding of theorising in economic geography by highlighting the role of context throughout the theory development process. By critically reviewing two key concepts in economic geography—related variety and knowledge bases—from a critical realist theory development perspective, scholars’ sensitivity to local context through the whole theorising process is examined. We argue that the particular strength of economic geography with regard to advancing theory lies in the continuous application of concepts and theories (that is, generalities) within new contexts (that is, confrontation with new particularities). PubDate: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa021 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Authors:Leitner H; Sheppard E. Pages: 491 - 508 Abstract: AbstractWe propose an epistemology for conjunctural inter-urban comparison, stressing the dialectical relationship between the general and the particular. We spatialise conjunctural analysis, avoiding methodological territorialism by extending the explanatory framework outwards in space to incorporate inter-territorial connections and supra-territorial scalar relations. We then provide three guiding principles for conjunctural comparison: an open starting point, a three-dimensional socio-spatial ontology and the general/particular dialectic. Illustrating this with comparative fieldwork on urban land transformations in Jakarta and Bangalore, we stress-test received theories and develop Inter-scalar Chains of Rentiership: this mid-range concept clarifies shared tendencies across the cities, particularities differentiating them and their inter-relations. PubDate: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa025 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Authors:Ettlinger N; Bose D. Pages: 509 - 526 Abstract: AbstractComparative literature on subaltern urbanism neglects inequalities among the poor that mimic exclusionary processes to which they have been subjected, what we call ‘scalar imitation’. Using Robinson’s ‘launching’ tactic towards ‘generative comparison’, we identify and explain the evolution of class differentiation within a resettlement colony in Delhi’s periphery, reference ‘glimpses’ of similar processes in literature on subaltern urbanism, and discuss epistemological underpinnings of our analysis. We revise ‘local uniqueness’, which Massey developed early in her career, and adhere to her later topological sensibilities and Foucault’s ‘ascending analysis’. We conclude by highlighting the blurring of worlding and place making processes. PubDate: Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa014 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Authors:Zhao Y. Pages: 527 - 542 Abstract: AbstractEngaging with reflections on improper urban vocabularies, this article proposes a translational turn to foreground dialogues—rather than equivalences—between languages. Drawing on the philosophies of language and hermeneutics, I adopt ‘the fusion of horizons’ as an alternative perspective to redefine translation where different languages encounter each other. To better capture global urban experiences, we should recognise the role of translation that exposes us to strangeness and alterity. This point is elaborated with heterogeneous names of the urban frontier, which inform us how and how far appropriating gaps/distances can initiate creative and unexpected dialogues for more global urban studies. PubDate: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa032 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Authors:Gundogdu I. Pages: 543 - 558 Abstract: AbstractSince the 1980s, there has been a considerable effort in critical analyses to design a particular research agenda centred on singularity and diversity in the name of avoiding “essentialistic and universalising claims.” The relations between generality and particularity are then not adequately taken into consideration while social and spatial objects are linked with each other only in external ways. In contrast, it is possible to analyse social reality in its both universal/general and particular aspects beyond their dualistic understanding. To do this, I suggest rethinking the Marxist concept of ‘socialisation of production’ by tracing the dialectical interplay between socialisation and value across geographies. PubDate: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa031 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Authors:Goh K. Pages: 559 - 574 Abstract: AbstractCentral debates in urban studies often appear to neglect the most urgent issues confronting cities and regions. Discourses on generalised urban processes, historical difference and planetary urbanisation rarely take, as a primary object of analysis, intertwined global climate change and urban change. Climate change is often considered generalised, affecting everyone everywhere. But its impacts are unevenly distributed and experienced. It links generalised processes and particular impacts and actions with implications for urban theory. This article builds on theories of multiscalar research and the politics of location to develop a conceptual framework of urban change through the lens of climate justice. PubDate: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa010 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Authors:Addie J. Pages: 575 - 592 Abstract: This article discusses how critical urban theory understands generalisation and particularity by unpacking the process of abstraction. It develops an urban interpretation of dialectics through the philosophy of internal relations to: (i) heuristically examine conceptual and political fissures within contemporary urban studies and (ii) critically recalibrate neo-Marxist planetary urban theorising. Examining the conceptual extension, levels of generality and vantage points of our abstractions can assist in constructively negotiating relations between urban difference and generality. The challenge is not which assertions are true based on a given epistemological position, but which abstractions are appropriate to address specific issues, given the range of politics and possibilities each establishes. PubDate: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa020 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Authors:Beauregard R. Pages: 593 - 603 Abstract: AbstractIn this article, I reflect on how urban scholars negotiate between the general and the particular not by turning to sampling strategies or statistical techniques but by situating the city in a favourable rhetorical space. In effect, they attempt to close the gap theoretically. My substantive and specific focus is urban scholarship that addresses individual cities and that frames that city either as a laboratory in which to do urban research, a lens through which to see other cities, or as the archetype for a school of urban studies. I concentrate mainly on the work of US urban scholars. PubDate: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa028 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
Pages: 605 - 605 Abstract: The Journal would like to thank all of the reviewers, including the following, as well as the members of the Editorial Board, who have very kindly contributed to our peer review process during the past year. The Editors would also like to acknowledge all those reviewers who are currently engaged in the current peer review process for CJRES. PubDate: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT DOI: 10.1093/cjres/rsaa042 Issue No:Vol. 13, No. 3 (2020)
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