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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.39,Issue10,P.1589-1602

语言

英文

关键字

Planetary urbanization; extended urbanization; urban society; complete urbanization; QUESTION; CITIES

作者单位

[Keil, Roger] York Univ, Fac Environm Studies, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada. Keil, R (reprint author), York Univ, Fac Environm Studies, 4700 Keele St, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada. E-Mail: rkeil@yorku.ca

摘要

This paper offers reflections on a body of work that has been produced under the label of "planetary urbanization". This term has its roots in speculative work by French writer Henri Lefebvre in the late 1960s and early 1970s and has recently been popularized by a new generation of critical urban theorists. In this commentary, I propose that Lefebvre's idea of planetary urbanization (and the aligned concepts "complete urbanization" and "urban society") offer a way to think productively about post-capitalist possibilities. Making reference to early writings by Marx and Engels about communism and the end of human pre-history, I argue that planetary urbanization presents a terrain for liberation from the constraints of capitalist histories. Given that this terrain is currently defined by the domains of neoliberalism and climate change a new politics is necessary to unlock the possibilities of urban society.