Keith, Michael;
Cramer-Greenbaum, Susannah;
Murji, Karim;
Pile, Steve;
Solomos, John;
Yazici, Eda;
Wang, Ying;
(2024)
Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination.
The Sociological Review
10.1177/00380261231214977.
(In press).
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Abstract
This article considers the interface of taxonomies of race and migration crystallised through the materialities of the contemporary city in the shadow of the 7th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. It draws on multi-method empirical research that interrogates the notion of the open city. The article proposes that ‘entanglement’ and ‘contaminations’ of material and cultural formations confound some claims made in the name of the good city, recognising what Marilyn Strathern might describe as the recursive ‘contamination’ of normative and empirical evidence. The article argues that it is imperative to excavate the normative domain of the empirical, and curate the empirical realisation of the normative, in rethinking a truly global sociological imagination. It concludes by suggesting that one way of approaching this is through a more forensic understanding of what is taken as ‘evidence’ in social sciences that should inform an interdisciplinary urban studies.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Entanglements of race and migration in the (open) city: Analytical and normative tensions of the sociological imagination |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00380261231214977 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261231214977 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2024. Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Sociology, good city, migration, open city, race, urbanism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188915 |
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