Interrogating urban crisis

Cities in the governance and contestation of austerity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10864087
AutoresMustafa Kemal Bayırbağ (0000-0001-9094-6964, Middle East Technical University, autor correspondente), J S Davies (0000-0003-2498-6946, De Montfort University), Sybille Münch (0000-0002-7031-9039, Leuphana University, Germany)
Ano2017
Volume54
Fascículo9
Páginas2023-2038
Data de publicação2017-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0042098017706336
OpenAlexW2613771512
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25
Referências citadas44

The meaning of ‘urban crisis’, and its applications in concrete struggles to govern and contest austerity urbanism, remains under-specified analytically and poorly understood empirically. This paper addresses the lacuna by opening up the concept of urban crisis to critical scrutiny. It begins by exploring how urban ‘crisis-talk’ tends to over-extend the concept in ways that can render it shallow or meaningless. The paper looks, second, at different applications of the terminology of ‘crisis’, disclosing key framings and problematics. In the spirit of critical urban studies, it focuses, third, on practices of crisis-resistance and crisis-making. The paper concludes by summarising the six urban crisis framings linked to six urban problematics, in order to inform future studies of austerity urbanism and assist in developing more reflexive approaches to the concept

Austerity · CONTEST · Corporate governance · Economics · Epistemology · Management · Meaning (existential · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Scrutiny · Social science · Sociology · Terminology · Urbanism · Architecture · History · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Studies