Abstract

We propose an epistemology for conjunctural inter-urban comparison, stressing the dialectical relationship between the general and the particular. We spatialise conjunctural analysis, avoiding methodological territorialism by extending the explanatory framework outwards in space to incorporate inter-territorial connections and supra-territorial scalar relations. We then provide three guiding principles for conjunctural comparison: an open starting point, a three-dimensional socio-spatial ontology and the general/particular dialectic. Illustrating this with comparative fieldwork on urban land transformations in Jakarta and Bangalore, we stress-test received theories and develop Inter-scalar Chains of Rentiership: this mid-range concept clarifies shared tendencies across the cities, particularities differentiating them and their inter-relations.

中文翻译：

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走向认识论进行结膜间城市比较

摘要

我们提出一种认识论，以进行结膜间城市间的比较，强调一般与特殊之间的辩证关系。我们对结语分析进行空间化处理，通过将解释性框架在空间中向外扩展以合并域间联系和域间标量关系，从而避免了方法论上的领土主义。然后，我们提供用于结语比较的三个指导原则：一个开放的起点，一个三维的社会空间本体论以及一般/特殊的辩证法。通过对雅加达和班加罗尔的城市土地变迁进行比较田野调查来说明这一点，我们对接受的理论进行压力测试，并开发了地租的标量链：这种中端概念阐明了整个城市的共同倾向，区别它们的特殊性及其相互关系。