City Benchmarking, Globalized Urban Scholarship and the View From Above
Reflections on a Few Absences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4929783 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Enora Robin (0000-0002-0327-1549, Urban Institute, The University of SheffieldBroomhallSheffieldS10 2TGUK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12976 |
| OpenAlex | W3131130200 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 2 |
In this short response I address Acuto et al.’s proposition to engage with the political economy of city benchmarking and rankings in order to show that critical urban scholarship can do better than ‘limiting itself to criticism’. I argue that such engagement would require deeper reflexion on the political economy of critical urban scholarship itself and the style of research needed. I also discuss the extent to which this engagement with cities’ comparative imagination as performed through benchmarks, rankings and indices runs the risk of overlooking other forms of global comparative endeavours happening outside of international urban solutions forums
Benchmarking · Comparability · Criticism · Economics · Geography · Management · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |