Learning the city : knowledge and translocal assemblage / Colin McFarlane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McFarlane, Colin, 1979-

Contributor:

Royal Geographical Society.

Series:

RGS-IBG book series ; 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urbanization--Social aspects.

Urbanization.

Social learning.

Social epistemology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 218 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

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 cities; Addresses the way knowledge travels and opportunities for learning about urbanism between North and South.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Learning Assemblages; Introduction; Translation: Distribution, Practice and Comparison; Coordinating Learning; Dwelling and Perception; Assemblage Space; Conclusion

2 Assembling the Everyday: Incremental Urbanism and Tactical Learning; Introduction; Incremental Urbanism; Learning the Unknown City: Street Children in Mumbai; Learning, Rhythm, Space; Tactical Learning; Conclusion

3 Learning Social Movements: Tactics, Urbanism and Politics; Introduction; Knowing Social Movements; Global Slumming; The Housing Assemblage: Materializing Learning; Learning and Representation: Counting the Poor; Entrepreneurial Learning; Conclusion

4 Urban Learning Forums; Introduction; Uncertain Forums; Dialogic Urban Forums; Translocalism and Translation; Conclusion

5 Travelling Policies, Ideological Assemblages; Introduction; Translating Policy; Comparative Learning: Translation and Colonial Urbanism; Ideology and Postwar Urban Planning; Neoliberal Urban Learning Assemblages; Ideology and Explanation: Beyond Diffusionist Story-Making; Conclusion

6 A Critical Geography of Urban Learning; Introduction; The Actual and the Possible; Agency and Critical Learning; Assemblage and the Critical Learning Imaginary; Postcolonial Urban Learning?; Conclusion

Conclusion

References

Index.

ISBN:

9781444343434 (ebook)

9781405192828 (hbk.)

9786613178251

9781283178259

1283178257

9781444343434

1444343432

9781444343403

1444343408

OCLC:

747411980