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Название A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time
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Жанр Социология
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located insight; they diagnose grounded critique emerging from particular contradictory social relations in order to sharpen the stakes and broaden public awareness. An Antipode book might revise scholarly debates by pushing at disciplinary boundaries, or by showing what happens to a problem as it moves or changes. It might investigate entanglements of power and struggle in particular sites, but with lessons that travel with surprising echoes elsewhere.

      Antipode books will be theoretically bold and empirically rich, written in lively, accessible prose that does not sacrifice clarity at the altar of sophistication. We seek books from within and beyond the discipline of geography that deploy geographical critique in order to understand and transform our fractured world.

      Vinay Gidwani

      University of Minnesota, USA

      Sharad Chari

      University of California, Berkeley, USA

       Antipode Book Series Editors

      As feminist, Marxist, postcolonial and queer scholars, our concern in this book is to show how social reproduction is foundational in comprehending urban transformation. Social reproduction is, of course, not just an analytical framing but also an organizing call for feminist scholars and our contention is that if we want an urban theory for our time, it needs to be feminist. Feminism is not simply a ‘discipline’, ‘theory’, or ‘ideology’, but a worldview, a lived praxis that provides a platform for engaged analysis.

      The book’s origins lie in our belief in the necessity of feminist urban knowledge production, a belief further endorsed by our prior critical engagement with the analytical framework of planetary urbanization and our collective ruminations during and post this engagement on the nature of urban theory (Reddy 2018; Ruddick et al. 2018). Not least the considerable response to the theme issue of Society and Space (Peake et al. 2018) showed us that there was an audience desirous of troubling the hegemony of urban theory. Moreover, our approach of working as a team across hierarchies of junior and senior scholars, generations, genders, sexualities, institutions, and disciplines – a praxis we refer to as ‘the intergenerational social reproductive labor of knowledge production’ (Peake et al. 2018, p. 377) – had been fruitful and positive and we wanted it to continue. It was as much a pedagogical experience of reading and writing together, and sharing meals, as it was an exploration of our places within the academy and an intellectual foray into urban theory. And while Roza Tchoukaleyska left for Newfoundland, Elsa Koleth, a new post-doctoral fellow at the City Institute at York University, joined us.

      Collectively, the contributors explore how the urban can be understood through the light shone on the dynamics of social reproduction in people’s everyday lives and their interaction with processes of capitalist accumulation as they are actively reconfigured through the manifold processes of contemporary urbanization. They proffer the insight that a feminist social reproduction approach to the urban offers not only an engaged analysis of the variegated nature of the urban but also of the relationship between capitalism and the production of social difference. With a focus on the everyday urban contexts within which social reproduction takes place, the various contributions make visible the insidious, often unacknowledged, and seemingly innocuous ways in which lives are being transformed, highlighting the moral economies within which these contexts are normalized and rendered ordinary rather than unlivable.

      Finally, we would like to acknowledge the work undertaken by the contributors to this book, a number of them junior scholars, as well as their patience in revising various drafts of their chapters. We also thank Antipode’s book series editors, Sharad Chari and Vinay Gidwani, who started the process of creating this book with us and Nik Theodore who saw us through to the end, for their interest in our project and providing us with the opportunity to pursue it through to its publication.

      Linda Peake, Rajyashree N. Reddy, Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz, Elsa Koleth, and darren patrick/dp

      References

      1 Peake, L., Patrick, D., Reddy, R., Tanyildiz, G., Ruddick, S., and Tchoukaleyska, R. (2013). Placing planetary urbanization in other fields of vision. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36 (3): 374–386. doi: 10.1177/0263775818775198

      2 Reddy, R.N. (2018). The urban under erasure: Towards a postcolonial critique of planetary urbanization. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36 (3): 529–539.

      3 Ruddick, S., Peake, L., Patrick, D., and Tanyildiz, G.S. (2018) Planetary urbanization: An urban theory for our time? Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36 (3): 387–404. doi: 10.1177/0263775817721489

      Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz (Brock University)

      Linda Peake and Elsa Koleth (York University)

      Rajyashree N. Reddy (University of Toronto Scarborough) darren patrick/dp and Susan Ruddick (University of Toronto)

      Introduction