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View article: BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION)
BROKEN INFRASTRUCTURES AND URBAN SPACIOUSNESS (COMPASSION) Open
Compassion in urban settings is manifested less as a definitive practice than as a panoply of spatial and temporal orientations that lend uncertainty to the dispositions of actions and events. This is an uncertainty that can be either gene…
View article: The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structures to multiple modes of coproduction for positive urban futures
The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structures to multiple modes of coproduction for positive urban futures Open
View article: Extending dialogues on the urban
Extending dialogues on the urban Open
Across the different vernaculars of the world's urban majorities, there is renewed bewilderment as to what is going on in the cities in which they reside and frequently self-build. Prices are unaffordable and they are either pushed out or …
View article: The Space-Times of Urbanizing NatureHow Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens.Hillary Angelo. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 264 pp., 14 halftone illustrations. $30.00 paper (ISBN 9780226739045); $29.99 E-book (ISBN 9780226739182).Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice. Kian Goh. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp., 55 black-and-white illustrations. $35.00 paper (ISBN 9780262543057); $25.99 E-book (ISBN 9780262367059).
The Space-Times of Urbanizing NatureHow Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens.Hillary Angelo. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021. 264 pp., 14 halftone illustrations. $30.00 paper (ISBN 9780226739045); $29.99 E-book (ISBN 9780226739182).Form and Flow: The Spatial Politics of Urban Resilience and Climate Justice. Kian Goh. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2021. 298 pp., 55 black-and-white illustrations. $35.00 paper (ISBN 9780262543057); $25.99 E-book (ISBN 9780262367059). Open
View article: Afterword: Out there (or, do we have lift off?)
Afterword: Out there (or, do we have lift off?) Open
View article: AFR volume 94 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
AFR volume 94 issue 1 Cover and Front matter Open
View article: The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions
The atmospheres of massiveness: The politics and times of the maybe in Southern megaregions Open
In this introduction to the special issue on massive urbanisation, the collective that has prepared this issue reviews the thinking and experiences that have been important to them. The reflections centre on the use of ‘massive’ in Jamaica…
View article: The Contingencies of Urban Data: Between the Interoperable and Inoperable
The Contingencies of Urban Data: Between the Interoperable and Inoperable Open
Data, data everywhere. Never a moment's rest. Never an aspect of life not potentially convertible into indicating something besides itself, never unable to participate in a gathering of factors whose particular compositions indicate future…
View article: AFR volume 93 issue 5 Cover and Front matter
AFR volume 93 issue 5 Cover and Front matter Open
View article: The after-lives of no arrival: How Papuans make their lives matter
The after-lives of no arrival: How Papuans make their lives matter Open
The essay considers heterogeneous Black temporalities in West Papua, Indonesia's largest urban region. Here, "Papuan time" is an extension beyond the dilemmas of being human or not. This is the possibility of being a human that has not exp…
View article: AFR volume 93 issue 3 Cover and Front matter
AFR volume 93 issue 3 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: ‘Organize, organize, organize’: The act of surrounding, one to another
‘Organize, organize, organize’: The act of surrounding, one to another Open
View article: Inhabiting the extensions
Inhabiting the extensions Open
Across the different vernaculars of the world's urban majorities, there is renewed bewilderment as to what is going on in the cities in which they reside and frequently self-build. Prices are unaffordable and they are either pushed out or …
View article: AFR volume 93 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
AFR volume 93 issue 2 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: ON URBAN RE‐ARRANGEMENTS: A Suite in Five Movements
ON URBAN RE‐ARRANGEMENTS: A Suite in Five Movements Open
This movement introduces the ethos of the collective project: its conceptual and practical preoccupations. It focuses on our concern with urban processes on the cusp of change, in the midst of being re‐arranged, and thus homes in on the va…
View article: MOVEMENT 5. SENSING THE AFFECTIVE LIVES OF ARRANGEMENTS
MOVEMENT 5. SENSING THE AFFECTIVE LIVES OF ARRANGEMENTS Open
This final movement explores whether thinking with re‐arrangements can help us account for that which is hidden, unseen or nested in the recesses and folds of urban practices. And if so, how we might then talk about and account for elusive…
View article: MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re‐arrangements
MOVEMENT 4. BREATH SIGH TEMPEST: On the Temporal Dimensions of Re‐arrangements Open
The fourth movement explores the temporal relationship between arrangements and re‐arrangements, addressing the question of how an obdurate and ‘sticky’ temporal order may give way to palpable re‐arrangement of the ways in which subjects e…
View article: MOVEMENT 3. NAVIGATING URBAN ARRANGEMENTS
MOVEMENT 3. NAVIGATING URBAN ARRANGEMENTS Open
The third movement explores how (re)arrangements are made and re‐worked as people navigate fractured, ever‐shifting landscapes of urban opportunity, conflict and uncertainty. Drawing on fieldwork in Paris, Mogadishu and Abidjan, we point t…
View article: MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re‐signification and the Making of Governable Spaces
MOVEMENT 2. FORMALIZING ARRANGEMENTS: Re‐signification and the Making of Governable Spaces Open
The second movement considers (re)arrangements as projects of formalization that seek to impose and even fix a form to spaces historically constructed as marginal. This impositional arrangement operates as a governmental desire to fix a fo…
View article: Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations
Post‐pandemic cities: An urban lexicon of accelerations/decelerations Open
COVID‐19 has stimulated renewed societal and academic debate about the future of cities and urban life. Future visons have veered from the ‘death of the city’ to visual renderings and limited experiments with novel 15 minute neighbourhoods…
View article: Ihnji Jon's Bubble Clash: Identity, Environment, and Politics in a Multicultural Suburb
Ihnji Jon's Bubble Clash: Identity, Environment, and Politics in a Multicultural Suburb Open
Jon's article is a matter of how any event, interaction, or scenario works off all that precedes and follows it, how their very conditions of possibility are posed, not simply within the personalities, histories, or situations of a given c…
View article: Opening Editorial
Opening Editorial Open
Our generation of editors faces a shared set of critical challenges (ESTS Edi
View article: Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics
Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics Open
This intervention is by a collective of scholars working on various facets of urbanisation in Asia. Focusing on the notion of arrangements/re‐arrangements, it seeks to extend the consideration of urban politics as a matter of surges, a pro…
View article: AFR volume 93 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
AFR volume 93 issue 1 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: AFR volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter
AFR volume 92 issue 5 Cover and Front matter Open
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View article: Radical unknowability: an essay on solidarities and multiform urban life
Radical unknowability: an essay on solidarities and multiform urban life Open
If urban life emerges within a multiplex space, what forms of change are afforded by urban environments? The urban entails a series of relations and detachments that contain popular economies and urban commons. Rather than a system, the ur…
View article: Urban Popular Economies
Urban Popular Economies Open
What is a life worth living and how is it concretely actualized by an urban majority making often unanticipated, unformatted uses of the urban to engender livelihoods in a dynamic and open-ended process? This is the key question undertaken…
View article: Blackness and Metropolitan Adjacency
Blackness and Metropolitan Adjacency Open
View article: Towards a global housing studies: beyond dichotomy, normativity and common abstraction
Towards a global housing studies: beyond dichotomy, normativity and common abstraction Open
View article: Deformation
Deformation Open