Urban extreme poverty has long been regarded as a vital challenge for policy and practice, but how might we research it? In this article, we set out a two-step approach to identifying and understanding the nature of urban extreme poverty (UEP). We experiment with an approach that does not define UEP in advance but seeks to examine it through a series of dimensions and approaches. Drawing on the long history of research on UEP, we argue that research would benefit from early scoping in context. This scoping begins by examining how UEP surfaces in relation to five dimensions: material, economic, political, spatial and emotional–subjective. From that base, we argue for a focus on the causes and form of UEP through dialogue among four epistemic approaches: political economy, political ecology, feminist urbanism and postcolonial urbanism. We illustrate this approach in relation to two quite distinct cities: Mumbai and Lima.

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了解和研究城市赤贫：一种概念方法学上的方法

长期以来，城市极端贫困一直被视为政策和实践的重大挑战，但是我们应该如何研究呢？在本文中，我们提出了一个两步方法来识别和理解城市极端贫困（UEP）的性质。我们尝试使用一种方法，该方法没有预先定义UEP，而是试图通过一系列维度和方法对其进行研究。根据UEP研究的悠久历史，我们认为研究将受益于上下文的早期范围界定。这个范围的界定从检查UEP如何与五个维度（物质，经济，政治，空间和情感主观）有关开始。在此基础上，我们主张通过四种认知方法之间的对话来关注UEP的原因和形式：政治经济学，政治生态学，女性主义城市主义和后殖民城市主义。