The “Southern” as a Methodological Intrusion on Urbanism

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10.2991/978-94-6239-632-6_2How to use a DOI?

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Southern Urbanism; Methodological Pluralism; Everyday Urban Practices

Abstract

Today we see new coalitions between developers, businesses, politicians and elites to reorient urbanicity through sustained practices of colonization resulting in the dispossession and dislocation of majorities through smart technologies, real estate valorization, futures finance, extractive expansionism and narratives of future survival making parsimony as well as expulsion of the vulnerable seem natural. The move of these coalitions is to remove urban majorities as well as racialized “minorities” from the urban commons and realigned of embedded and new power. There is a kind of emergency capitalism at play in which urban extractions of various sorts are at play. Yet the urban remains a “witch” of shape-shifting forms and spaces, if many sides of the track where residents repurpose what there is, to inhabit, build lives, make connections, and dream a future. The history of urban fabrics, with its pluralities, accretions from the past, relational emergences, and composites of time-space lends itself to a fugitivity in inhabitation. In other words, a capacity to move on across invented trajectories not ones prescribed by the most powerful. Always temporary, always evanescent, always experimental.

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AU  - Abdou Maliq Simone
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DA  - 2026/04/13
TI  - The “Southern” as a Methodological Intrusion on Urbanism
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Architectural Research and Design (ARDC 2025)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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