GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Urban Studies, Jugaad, Megacity
4 Mar 2019
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Idea came from ananya roy (regional planning prof) and aihwa ong (anth/east prof) @ Berkley: commenting on the global south and are from the global south. Worlding" is fundamentally concerned with how cities of both global north and global south are represented in the canon of urban studies. Some of us have and have not industrialized yet. Subaltern urbanism: urban studies scholars have examined megacities of the south narrowly in terms of capital, accumulation, democracy and apocalyptic narratives. Planet of slums" (mike davis" sees slums as a warehouse of surplus humanity: residents see urban facilities and well-educated residents in places like nairobi, Roy as subaltern urbanism": rethinking megacities and slums: ong. Jugaad" = hindi concept that means the spunky, make-do, attitude found among slum dwellers: scholars, designers, architects shifting from what can the west teach the slums? to ask. This may be obvious for us but it was a struggle for.
