Knowles, Caroline. 2014. The Urban Problematic: A Response to Ryan Bishop and John WP Phillips. Theory Culture and Society, 31(7-8), pp. 319-322. ISSN 0263-2764 [Article]

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In dialogue with Bishop and Phillips’ (2013) concern to establish what the category of the urban might mean in the context of megacities, this piece offers four provoca- tions in the spirit of developing their analysis. The first is the need to attend to the specifics of megacities; the second insists on the importance of including those who navigate them in the analysis; the third is a concern to unwind different forms of urban traction, and the fourth is a need to be mindful of the intersecting logics of translocality. Drawing on my own empirical research into the urban translocalities drawn by the flip-flop trail, it concludes that globalization is less solid and more fragile and shifting than many of its theorists suggest.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276414547913
Keywords:	globalization, logics of mobility, megacities, navigators, translocality
Related URLs:	http://tcs.sagepub.com/content/31/7-8/31...
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology > Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR)
Dates:	Date Event December 2014 Published
Item ID:	18163
Date Deposited:	04 May 2016 09:27
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2017 11:07
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	http://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/18163

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