The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies: (Routledge International Handbooks)

The Routledge Handbook of Comparative Global Urban Studies is a timely intervention into the field of global urban studies, coming as comparison is being more widely used as a method for global urban studies, and as a number of methodological experiments and comparative research projects are being brought to fruition. It consolidates and takes forward an emerging field within urban studies and makes a positive and constructive intervention into a lively arena of current debate in urban theory. Comparative urbanism injects a welcome sense of methodological rigor and a commitment to careful evaluation of claims across different contexts, which will enhance current debates in the field. Drawing together more than 50 international scholars and practitioners, this book offers an overview of key ideas and practices in the field and extends current thinking and practice. The book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students for whom it will provide an invaluable and up-to-date guide to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of urbanism, including geography, sociology, political studies, planning, and urban studies.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Comparative Global Urban Studies in the Making: Welcome to the World of Imperfect and Innovative Urban Comparisons Part I: Introduction: Inheritance: Traditions in Comparative Urban Research Chapter 1 – Beyond the City Limits: Comparison, Global Urbanism, and the Chicago School of Sociology Chapter 2 – Comparative strategies on and in Latin-American cities Chapter 3 – Comparative urban studies and African studies at the crossroads: From the colonial situation to twilight institutions Chapter 4 – Comparative Urban Studies in Asia: Old Players in Urbanization History or Emerging Game Changers? Chapter 5 – Comparative urban studies in Europe Chapter 6 – Beyond comparison with history and Actor-Network Theory Chapter 7 – Citizenship and Inequality in the Post-Colonial City: Instituted Processes and Causal Mechanisms Chapter 8 – The Role of Comparison in Urban Political Science Chapter 9 – The Contribution of the Sociological Approach to Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 10 – Urban Social Movements: Comparing Conflicts and Mobilizations Part II: Introduction: Methods and Research Design Chapter 11 – A Comparative Network Approach to the Study of Neighborhood-and City-Level Inequality Based on Everyday Urban Mobility Chapter 12 – Making a Comparative Case: The Art Biennial in Dakar and Taipei Chapter 13 – Frames and flows: pan-urban policymaking and metropolitan transformation Chapter 14 – From object biographies to data-centred assemblages: two experiments in relational urban comparison Chapter 15 – Internal Migrations and Urban Transitions: A Comparative Perspective Chapter 16 – Odious comparisons in urban studies. A plea for comparative monographs Chapter 17 – A New Era for Commensurable Comparative Urban Research? Machine Learning and/or Propagations Chapter 18 – Methodological manoeuvres: Comparative practices in urban policy making Chapter 19 – Politics and governance in metropolitan areas: a transnational comparative perspective Part III: Introduction: Contexts Chapter 20 – Enabling Connections: Relational Comparison in a Global Conjunctural Frame Chapter 21 – Segregation studies: Overriding context through implicit comparison? Chapter 22 – Specificity and Urbanisation: A Framework for Comparative Analysis Chapter 23 – The Ends of Comparison—calculative logics and racial hauntings Chapter 24 – Cities in Their States Chapter 25 – Social mix, super-diversity, and interactions in the neighborhood: Comparing US and Western European perspectives Chapter 26 – Overcoming the Limitations of Comparative Urban Research in the (Post)Socialist Context Chapter 27 – State entrepreneurialism: theorising urban development politics from China Chapter 28 – Weak Comparisons: Navigating Differences and Commonalities among Cities in Russia and Elsewhere Chapter 29 – The relevance of local factors for understanding Italy: explaining territorial differentiation Part IV: Introduction: Connections Chapter 30 – ‘Coexisting Heterogeneity’: Agrarian Urban Entanglements in India’s Urbanizing Frontiers Chapter 31 – Socialist Worldmaking: Comparative Research between the Socialist and Postcolonial Countries during the Cold War Chapter 32 – Comparative Urban Studies Beyond the City Chapter 33 – Global Cities Research as Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 34 – Genetic Comparisons: Tracing how global infrastructure conditions peri-urban trajectories Chapter 35 – Archipelagic Thinking, Southern Urbanism and Experimental Comparisons Chapter 36 – Allegory, Psychasthenia, Horizon: Comparative Urbanism as Spectral Critique at the Antipodes of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative Part V: Introduction: Experiments Chapter 37 – New York and Cairo: a view from street level. Chapter 38 – Emotions as an Analytical Category in Comparative Urban Studies Chapter 39 – Concepts and Principles for Taking Bourdieu into the City Chapter 40 – Covid, contagion and comparative urban research Chapter 41 – Everyday cognition and historical tracing in comparative urban research: Insights from a study of the BRICS Chapter 42 – Quilting Comparison: Wonder, Translation and Theorization Chapter 43 – Tracing Materials to Locate the Urban: The West African Corridor from Lagos to Abidjan Chapter 44 – How India Urbanizes: Multiscalar and Multi-Sited Comparisons Chapter 45 – Ruled by the Logic of ‘Trans’: Exploring the Religion of the City on a Global Level Chapter 45 – Ruled by the Logic of ‘Trans’: Exploring the Religion of the City on a Global Level

About the Author :
Patrick Le Galès FBA, MAE, is a CNRS Research Professor of Sociology, Politics and Urban studies at Sciences Po in Paris, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics. He was the founding Dean of Sciences Po Urban School. Jennifer Robinson has been a Professor of Human Geography at University College London since 2009 and co-director of UCL’s Urban Laboratory since 2010. Previously she has worked at the Open University, the LSE, and the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.