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作者

Wangui Kimari;Jessica Parish

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.41,Issue5,P.643-656

语言

英文

关键字

Abolition ecologies,Nairobi,Toronto,rivers,colonial city

作者单位

African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town , Rondebosch, South Africa

摘要

This short essay, flowing through Nairobi and Toronto, represents a transnational conversation on what the contemporary status of urban rivers can tell us about the endurance of coloniality in these two spaces. Against the hegemonic bids for their “revitalization,” we attend to these two rivers, both of which helped propel the growth of their respective urban agglomerations, as symbols of people-centered struggles for abolition ecologies. We aim to provoke the incorporation of more plural understandings and narrations within the discipline of geography, and have been struck by the similarities across different post- and settler-colonial contexts, and, as well, the limited lenses that attend to these environments in academic scholarship. Accordingly, we also highlight the possibilities that emerge in thinking jointly with urban spaces across the “North” and “South” divide, in order to demonstrate the connected and pervasive nature of empire, and the variegated practices that resist coloniality in cities. KEYWORDS: Abolition ecologiesNairobiTorontoriverscolonial city Disclosure Statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.