ABSTRACT

This article contributes to ongoing calls that provoke a recasting of provisional urban worlds in the global South. I draw from informal and transient structures – shacks, shanties, micro-stalls – in Kibera, a high-density settlement in Nairobi, to offer an explication of provisional worlds that transcends teleological conceptions of what constitutes ‘the urban’. I argue that while often disregarded, sidelined, and marginalized in formal planning and city-making processes, informal and transient structures offer viable alternatives amidst the usually exclusionary nature of neoliberal and market-oriented interventions. As such, they instigate a mode of practice that speaks to different ways of being-in-the-world.

摘要

这篇文章对引发全球南方临时城市世界重塑的持续呼吁做出了贡献。我从内罗毕高密度聚居地基贝拉的非正式和临时结构——棚屋、棚屋、微型摊位中汲取灵感，以提供对超越“城市”构成的目的论概念的临时世界的解释。我认为，虽然在正式规划和城市建设过程中经常被忽视、被边缘化和边缘化，但在新自由主义和市场导向干预通常具有排斥性的情况下，非正式和临时结构提供了可行的替代方案。因此，他们倡导一种实践模式，讲述不同的在世方式。