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Introduction: Urban Precarity
City & Society Pub Date : 2021-08-26 , DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12402
Brian Campbell 1 , Christian Laheij 2
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Cities have long been associated with precarity. This link seems to have intensified under contemporary global regimes of capitalism, with both popular and academic discourses noting the risks that come with building and inhabiting urban environments. The introduction to this special issue reflects on the various ways in which anthropology has engaged with the relationship between “urbanity” and “precarity.” It argues that current work on precarity either favors the experiences of the Global North or sidelines the urban dimension. Studies that overcome these obstacles, moreover, are largely crystalizing around discussions of infrastructure and securitization. We offer the notion of “urban precarity” as a call for ethnography that cross-germinates developments in urban studies with those made in our understanding of precarity. By foregrounding the urban, the ethnography collated here suggests that in the cities of late capitalism, precarity emerges as a multifaceted condition, encapsulating not only legal and economic deprivation but also moral, spiritual, political, and health-related uncertainties. As the protagonists of our ethnography struggle to deal with the many threats bearing down upon them, precarity is also revealed as a condition conducive to world-building and social transformation, although such forms of creative agency are highly experimental and liable to backfire.

中文翻译:

简介:城市不稳定

长期以来,城市都与不稳定联系在一起。在当代全球资本主义制度下,这种联系似乎加强了,流行和学术话语都注意到建设和居住城市环境所带来的风险。本期特刊的介绍反映了人类学研究“城市化”与“不稳定”之间关系的各种方式。它认为,当前关于不稳定的工作要么支持全球北方的经验,要么将城市维度排除在外。此外,克服这些障碍的研究主要围绕基础设施和证券化的讨论展开。我们提出了“城市不稳定”的概念,作为对人种学的呼吁,它使城市研究的发展与我们对不稳定的理解交叉发芽。通过以城市为前景,这里整理的民族志表明,在晚期资本主义的城市中,不稳定是一种多方面的状况,不仅包括法律和经济剥夺,还包括道德、精神、政治和健康相关的不确定性。当我们民族志的主角努力应对压在他们身上的许多威胁时,不稳定也被揭示为有利于世界建设和社会变革的条件,尽管这种形式的创意机构是高度实验性的,容易适得其反。
更新日期:2021-09-27
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