What can an assemblage do?

Russell, Bertie; Pusey, André; Chatterton, Paul

doi:10.1080/13604813.2011.609024

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“…Insofar as we can intentionally control the agentic cuts, our academic interventions actually achieve once they are in circulation (Greenhough ), assemblage‐inspired accounts can resource strategic knowledge production to be put to work to galvanise and inform strategic action by various publics (activist, community, governmental and hybrid) that seek transformative engagements to enliven alternative trajectories of regeneration and to advance political and material strategies to stabilise these attempts (Bender ; Russell et al . ). In this way, assemblage‐inspired accounts can resource bringing people, things and knowledge together to energise the purposive creation of urban regeneration assemblages aimed to claim authority in the fields of decision making that shape urban regeneration and it possibilities (Müller , Iveson ).…”

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Assembling Urban Regeneration? Resourcing Critical Generative Accounts of Urban Regeneration through Assemblage.

2016

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In critical urban studies, managed urban regeneration has been linked to trajectories of neo-liberalising urban policy and urban entrepreneurialism. While the insights arising from this work have been many and valuable, significant gaps remain particularly in terms of the foci of analysis and the conception of politics. In this paper, we aim to address these gaps and to reposition the conceptualization of regeneration as a performed and emergent consequence of 'relatedness' and as subject to a range of relational effects and determinations. To do so we work through four capacities of assemblage thinking that are particularly productive for this task: (i) revealing the relational, multiple and processual nature of urban trajectories; (ii) revealing the multi-scalar labouring involved in configuring the (socio-material) assemblages that constitute regeneration; (iii) identifying openings for multiple possible trajectories of regeneration; (iv) providing critical insights into how regeneration trajectories are constrained. We conclude with ref lections on what assemblage thinking offers in terms of critically and generatively rethinking urban regeneration.

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2016

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“…To this end they focused on emergent contextualized types of socio‐materiality, emphasizing relational variability and contingency rather than causation by structural determination or pre‐established powers. They also addressed the opportunity to create an alternate criticism of urban practices — beyond the structural fixations of grand social and urban theories (see Brenner et al ., ; McFarlane, ; Russell et al ., ). In particular, they emphasized the potential for urban transformation created by the flow and mutability of assemblages (Law, ; Farías, ; for similar arguments put forth in the context of European urbanistic debates, see Färber, ).…”

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Assemblages of Urban Leisure Culture in Inner‐City Bucharest

Bürkner¹,

Totelecan²

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Inner‐city redevelopment in the south‐eastern European metropolis of Bucharest has been an intriguing object of analysis. Having been neglected for a long time by its inhabitants, urban politics and the local economy, the historical inner city recently experienced tremendous development of its evening/night‐time economy and leisure culture, as though it had received fresh impulses from European integration. However, there is no single cause which effected this unexpected proliferation. Therefore, this article traces the contingent ways in which the inner city has been affected, mainly through an empirical reconstruction of socio‐material assemblages of inner‐city leisure culture. A typology of (partial) assemblages is developed, which illustrates the heterogeneity, contingency and changeability of emerging temporary relations between various social, material and ideational elements. We demonstrate how localism and internal replication of limited business concepts have triggered the selective adaptation of various symbols of modernization. Against this background we argue that post‐transformational urbanity involves contingent social self‐referencing and socio‐material assemblage, rather than the adoption of prevailing translocal models of urban development. A critical reassessment of assemblage theory, as applied to this particular urban context, leads to final considerations concerning possible theoretical readjustments.

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“…Colin McFarlane's (2011a) benchmark paper on assemblage urbanism prompted a vigorous wide-ranging debate on 'Assemblage and Critical Urban Praxis' in City (see inter alia Brenner 6 et al 2011;McFarlane 2011b;Russell et al 2011). McFarlane (2011a) highlighted the potential of assemblage urbanism to add to the existing critical urbanist theoretical repertoire -capital accumulation, class and uneven development etc.…”

Section: Assemblage Urbanism and Critical Urbanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

A nomadic war machine in the metropolis

Watt

2016

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What can an assemblage do?

Cited by 22 publications

References 11 publications

Assembling Urban Regeneration? Resourcing Critical Generative Accounts of Urban Regeneration through Assemblage.

Assembling Urban Regeneration? Resourcing Critical Generative Accounts of Urban Regeneration through Assemblage.

Assemblages of Urban Leisure Culture in Inner‐City Bucharest

A nomadic war machine in the metropolis

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