Learning the City Knowledge and Translocal Assemblage

by McFarlane, Colin

• ISBN13: 9781405192811
• ISBN10: 140519281X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-08-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Learning the City: Translocal Assemblage and Urban Politics critically examines the relationship between knowledge, learning, and urban politics, arguing both for the centrality of learning for political strategies and developing a progressive international urbanism. Presents a distinct approach to conceptualising the city through the lens of urban learning Integrates fieldwork conducted in Mumbai's informal settlements with debates on urban policy, political economy, and development Considers how knowledge and learning are conceived and created in development Addresses the way knowledge travels and opportunities for learning about development between North and South

Author Biography

Colin McFarlane is Lecturer in Human Geography at Durham University, UK. He is an urban geographer whose work focuses on the intersections between urban inequality, knowledge and materiality.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Learning Assemblages	p. 15
Introduction	p. 15
Translation: Distribution, Practice and Comparison	p. 17
Coordinating Learning	p. 19
Dwelling and Perception	p. 21
Assemblage Space	p. 23
Conclusion	p. 30
Assembling the Everyday: Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning	p. 32
Introduction	p. 32
Incremental Urbanism	p. 33
Learning the Unknown City: Street Children in Mumbai	p. 43
Learning, Rhythm, Space	p. 47
Tactical Learning	p. 54
Conclusion	p. 59
Learning Social Movements: Tactics, Urbanism and Politics	p. 62
Introduction	p. 62
Knowing Social Movements	p. 63
Global Slumming	p. 66
The Housing Assemblage: Materializing Learning	p. 69
Learning and Representation: Counting the Poor	p. 74
Entrepreneurial Learning	p. 85
Conclusion	p. 90
Urban Learning Forums	p. 92
Introduction	p. 92
Uncertain Forums	p. 93
Dialogic Urban Forums	p. 98
Translocalism and Translation	p. 105
Conclusion	p. 113
Travelling Policies, Ideological Assemblages	p. 115
Introduction	p. 115
Translating Policy	p. 117
Comparative Learning: Translation and Colonial Urbanism	p. 122
Ideology and Postwar Urban Planning	p. 128
Neoliberal Urban Learning Assemblages	p. 134
Ideology and Explanation: Beyond Diffusionist Story-Making	p. 145
Conclusion	p. 151
A Critical Geography of Urban Learning	p. 153
Introduction	p. 153
The Actual and the Possible	p. 155
Agency and Critical Learning	p. 160
Assemblage and the Critical Learning Imaginary	p. 164
Postcolonial Urban Learning?	p. 167
Conclusion	p. 172
Conclusion	p. 174
References	p. 185
Index	p. 205
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