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来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.39,Issue5,P.655-666

语言

英文

关键字

Competition; delays; uncertainty; urban assemblages; urban actor-networks; HUMAN-GEOGRAPHY; STATE; TEMPORALITY; COOPERATION; EMERGENCE; CITIES; LATOUR; CITY

作者单位

[Simandan, Dragos] Brock Univ, Geog Dept, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada. Simandan, D (reprint author), Brock Univ, Geog Dept, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada. E-Mail: simandan@brocku.ca

摘要

This intervention contributes to recent work in urban geography that integrates the conceptual frameworks of assemblages and actor-network theory by highlighting two additional directions that require a more rigorous and detailed theorization. The first direction concerns the relationship between contingency and necessity in urban assemblages and actor-networks and this paper delineates four specific propositions as a starting point for further reflection. The second direction suggests that urban assemblages and actor-networks require a more explicit vocabulary for thinking about competition and cooperation within and between cities. To this end, the paper introduces a new concept - delayed asymmetric counterforces - that can foster a better understanding of competition-induced urban change and destabilization. The novel concept is developed in conjunction with a typology of delays in competitive urban dynamics, which helps illuminate how delayed asymmetric counterforces are both a cause and an effect of the complexity inherent in the urban realm.