《Desakota 2.0: worlding hybrid spaces in the global urban》

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作者
Arnisson Andre C. Ortega
来源
URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.41,Issue5,P.668-681
语言
英文
关键字
Desakota,urban–rural,provincialization,postcolonial urban,global south,worlding
作者单位
Department of Geography, Syracuse University , Syracuse, NY, USA
摘要
In a world where rapid urban expansion is occurring in peri-urban fringes of the Global South, this paper advocates for a foregrounding of urban-rural fringes as sites of urban theorization. Heeding to postcolonial urbanism's call for creative experimentation on building wider and inclusive theoretical terrains of urban scholarship, I proffer desakota 2.0 as a worlding conceptual vector. Drawn from the contextual realities of Java, Indonesia, desakota denotes a spatiality characterized by an interplay of urban and rural ways of living. Reloading and re-deploying the term as desakota 2.0 disrupts the city-centric tendency that treats urban-rural spaces as residual sites of theroization and analysis. Worlding desakota 2.0 becomes a provincialized practice engaging with places through a deeper accounting of contextual histories and socio-spatial dynamics, engendering new conceptual formulations and comparisons across contexts. Using the case of Manila's fringe, I discuss desakota 2.0's deployment and two emergent conceptual formulations. KEYWORDS: Desakotaurban–ruralprovincializationpostcolonial urbanglobal southworlding Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.