Interrogating urban crisis: Cities in the governance and contestation of austerity
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In: Urban Studies, Vol. 54, No. 9, 01.07.2017, p. 2023–2038.
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T1 - Interrogating urban crisis
T2 - Cities in the governance and contestation of austerity
AU - Bayirbag, Mustafa Kemal
AU - Davies, Jonathan S.
AU - Münch, Sybille
N1 - Special issue: Interrogating urban crisis: Governance, contestation and critique
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - The meaning of ‘urban crisis’, and its applications in concrete struggles to govern and contest austerity urbanism, remains under-specified analytically and poorly understood empirically. This paper addresses the lacuna by opening up the concept of urban crisis to critical scrutiny. It begins by exploring how urban ‘crisis-talk’ tends to over-extend the concept in ways that can render it shallow or meaningless. The paper looks, second, at different applications of the terminology of ‘crisis’, disclosing key framings and problematics. In the spirit of critical urban studies, it focuses, third, on practices of crisis-resistance and crisis-making. The paper concludes by summarising the six urban crisis framings linked to six urban problematics, in order to inform future studies of austerity urbanism and assist in developing more reflexive approaches to the concept.
AB - The meaning of ‘urban crisis’, and its applications in concrete struggles to govern and contest austerity urbanism, remains under-specified analytically and poorly understood empirically. This paper addresses the lacuna by opening up the concept of urban crisis to critical scrutiny. It begins by exploring how urban ‘crisis-talk’ tends to over-extend the concept in ways that can render it shallow or meaningless. The paper looks, second, at different applications of the terminology of ‘crisis’, disclosing key framings and problematics. In the spirit of critical urban studies, it focuses, third, on practices of crisis-resistance and crisis-making. The paper concludes by summarising the six urban crisis framings linked to six urban problematics, in order to inform future studies of austerity urbanism and assist in developing more reflexive approaches to the concept.
KW - Politics
KW - contestation
KW - crisis
KW - governance
KW - resistance
KW - urban
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020849367&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0042098017706336
DO - 10.1177/0042098017706336
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 54
SP - 2023
EP - 2038
JO - Urban Studies
JF - Urban Studies
SN - 0042-0980
IS - 9
ER -