Water marginalization at the urban fringe: environmental justice and urban political ecology across the North–South divide

Ranganathan, Malini; Balazs, Carolina

doi:10.1080/02723638.2015.1005414

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“…Such work drawing on traditions across informal and precarious conditions beyond EuroAmerica is thus able to speak back to experiences of squatting and autonomous urbanisms in cities such as Berlin. In work on water on the urban fringe, RANGANATHAN and BALAZS (2015) examine marginalization in urban water politics in a small municipality in Tooleville, a municipality in the U.S.A. and Bangalore, India. They find that the process-based political rights discourse in Bangalore could complement the rights-based discourse on access to water in Toolville, and vice versa.…”

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Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory

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Abstract:Postcolonial urbanists have argued that theorizing is never unlocated, and requires socio-spatial contextualization to understand its utility and limits. Articulating the always partial process of 'learning to unlearn' theoretical assumptions and normativities, and considering what lies outside theory, can contribute to postcolonial urban theory. Sharing this process can help scholars 'learn to unlearn' from each other, develop modes of urban theorizing which acknowledge the situatedness of that process more robustly, and increase transparency about the process of theorization. Further, it shifts the focus from the 'who' and 'where' of theorization towards the assumptions and norms implicit in theory. After reflecting on our scholarly engagements, we point to situatedness, partiality, specificity, and scale as useful entry points for scholars seeking develop urban theory from the South. Unlearning [un]located ideas in the provincialization of urban theoryAbstract: Postcolonial urbanists have argued that theorizing is never unlocated, and requires socio-spatial contextualization to understand its utility and limits. Articulating the always partial process of 'learning to unlearn' theoretical assumptions and normativities, and considering what lies outside theory, can contribute to postcolonial urban theory. Sharing this process can help scholars 'learn to unlearn' from each other, develop modes of urban theorizing which acknowledge the situatedness of that process more robustly, and increase transparency about the process of theorization. Further, it shifts the focus from the 'who' and 'where' of theorization towards the assumptions and norms implicit in theory. After reflecting on our scholarly engagements, we point to situatedness, partiality, specificity, and scale as useful entry points for scholars seeking develop urban theory from the South.

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Section: The Call To Provincialize Urban Scholarshipmentioning

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Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory

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“…Recent work on water in Southern cities has shown just how much can be gleaned when research engages with Southern experiences as opportunities for knowledge building on par with those of Northern contexts. Such work challenges the North–South binary by engaging with water inequalities––typically thought of as Southern problems––in Northern contexts (Jepson and Vanderwalle, 2015) and by studying Northern and Southern cities comparatively, helping to reconceptualize water access, state engagement and political agency (Ranganathan and Balazs, 2015).…”

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Worlding Water Supply: Thinking Beyond the Network in Jakarta

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2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…This will also help to further break down the divide that has been identified between studies in the global North and South by postcolonial scholars such as Ananya Roy, which is something that UPE has been making great strides in (e.g. Ranganathan and Balazs, 2015;McFarlane et al, 2016;Cornea et al, 2017).…”

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Urban Political Ecology Beyond Methodological Cityism

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2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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The concept of planetary urbanization has emerged in recent years amongst neo‐Lefebvrian urban scholars who see urbanization as a process taking place at all spatial scales. This article analyses recent critiques of the urban political ecology (UPE) literature which argue that much of the work in the field has been guilty of focusing exclusively on the traditional bounded city unit rather than urbanization as a process. In response, the article reviews various strands of the UPE literature which have (always) moved beyond ‘the city’ to consider the various metabolisms and circulations of humans and non‐humans connecting cities with places outside of their borders at a variety of scales. Furthermore, it suggests how these approaches can productively work with the insights of the planetary urbanization literature, in considering both the changing nature of urbanization and also the socio‐ecological and political implications of these changes. Finally, the article suggests how the methodological approach of the ‘site multiple’ and its focus on everyday practices and lived experiences can be useful for researching diverse urban phenomena and their more‐than‐urban connections.

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Water marginalization at the urban fringe: environmental justice and urban political ecology across the North–South divide

Cited by 165 publications

References 78 publications

Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory

Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory

Worlding Water Supply: Thinking Beyond the Network in Jakarta

Urban Political Ecology Beyond Methodological Cityism

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