Assemblage urbanism and the challenges of critical urban theory

Brenner, Neil; Madden, David J.; Wachsmuth, David

doi:10.1080/13604813.2011.568717

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“…A city of permanent experiments is thus a provisional achievement and one that is always 'in the making'. This also connects to recent theoretical contributions on assemblage theory and sociotechnical urban systems (Anderson & McFarlane, 2011;Brenner et al, 2011;Farías, 2011;McFarlane, 2011b;Gopakumar, 2014) that recognises that cities do not have an end point but are always unfolding and evolving, they are processes rather than products. As McFarlane (2011b: 650) notes, the city here is understood as a "gathering process" rather than an end state.…”

Section: Embracing Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

Innovating Climate Governance

Turnheim¹,

Kivimaa

Berkhout

2018

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Over the last decade, a multitude of urban climate change experiments have emerged to go beyond traditional role of the state in environmental governance. These activities provide a real world evidence base for how a low-carbon world could be realised and they have the potential to fundamentally change the way that cities are conceived, built, and managed. Most urban climate change experiments are designed to be geographically and temporally bounded to accelerate innovation activities and realise actual changes on the ground. But what if urban experiments did not scale up? What if, instead of informing existing modes of urban governance, they became the dominant approach to governing cities? What would a 'city of permanent experiments' look like and how would it function? This chapter speculates on the implications of experimentation as the new mode of governance for twenty-first century cities. Here, experiments are not interpreted as one-off trials to provide evidence and justification for new low-carbon policies, regulations, and service provision; instead, they are emerging as a new mode of governance in themselves. This emerging form of urban governance is characterised by uncertainty, recursive learning processes, and spatial fragmentation with multiple unknown implications on the politics of cities in the future.

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Section: Embracing Uncertaintymentioning

confidence: 99%

Innovating Climate Governance

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Kivimaa

Berkhout

2018

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“…On the other hand, Brenner et al, agree that assemblage thinking opens up the prospect for thinking space as relationally, indeterminacy, emergence, becoming, processuality and turbulence. (Brenner et al, 2011). However, they question the concept of assemblage could be used as a new theory (supersede for the urban critical theory) to explain the new forms of urbanization and world-making process.…”

Section: City As An Assemblage and Migrationmentioning

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“…Developed by shcolars such as Bruno Latour, Michel Callon, John Law and their followers, ANT is originally derived from an "actant-rhizome ontology, it arguably departs significantly from the philosophical-political project of Deleuze and Guattari (Brenner et al, 2011). More recently, McFarlane (2011aMcFarlane ( , 2011b and Brenner, Madden, & Wachsmuth (2011) have debated on what assemblage thinking could offer to urban critical theory in the special issues of City (Vol 15, 11 2011). Colin McFarlane uses the Deleuze-Guattarian conception of "assemblage" (agencement), arguing that assemblage is "expansive terms of an orientation, a concept, and an imaginary" that it might both connect with and differ from critical urbanism.…”

Section: City As An Assemblage and Migrationmentioning

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“…However, they question the concept of assemblage could be used as a new theory (supersede for the urban critical theory) to explain the new forms of urbanization and world-making process. They suggest to the most effective way to apply assemblage thinking is when it is linked systematically to the intellectual tools and political orientations of critical geopolitical economy (Brenner et al, 2011).…”

Section: City As An Assemblage and Migrationmentioning

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“…The fluid processes of migration and settlement territorialize parts of the city and create distinctive features of urban space, while also following patterns of deterritorialization and reterritorialization. The dissertation will examine these processes to understand the recent debates about urban assemblage theory (Brenner, Madden, & Wachsmuth, 2011;McFarlane, 2011a;Swanton, 2011).…”

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Assemblage has been called on to understand the city as both relational and territorial. Initially introduced by Deleuze and Guattari, assemblage refers to a dynamic process of forming provisional constellations of different elements. The concept is employed in large, loosely related bodies of work such as actor‐network theory, “new materialist” geographies, and politics of knowledge, among others. The two schools of political economy and poststructuralism treat assemblage in different ways and therefore focus on different scholarly questions. Concepts like splintering urbanism, global assemblage, worlding cities, and fast policy transfer are introduced.

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Assemblage urbanism and the challenges of critical urban theory

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References 23 publications

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