GEOG 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Preconditioner, Rem Koolhaas
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The postcolonial city - guest lecture by rachel bok. "slumdog cities: rethinking subaltern urbanism" (2011) - ananya roy. Trained as an urban planner but identifies as a geographer. Idea of a slumdog is a playful reference to the movie slumdog. Article is centered around the key concept of subaltern urbanism . Key aim: critically evaluating the concept of subaltern urbanism . Conceptual maneuvers: drawing on spivak to question the conditions of knowledge surrounding southern cities. Why bother to critique subaltern urbanism? o o. We cannot take a global north lens and apply it to slums in the global south. Creates ignorance and preconceived notions of what things like poverty are. Suburbanism therefore isn"t a terrible concept, but we could also use it more productively to understand cities. A postcolonial analysis is grounded in the politics of knowledge. Proposes a set of alternative representations to uncover cities.
