Ortiz, Catalina;
Travlou, Penny;
Siqueira, Marina;
Giulia, Testori;
(2025)
Decolonising urban knowledge(s): an ordinary imperative in extraordinary times.
City
10.1080/13604813.2025.2470540.
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Abstract
Urban scholarship has been complicit in perpetuating a western superiority in our understanding of city making processes. This Special Feature hosts a variegated collection of pieces that engage with the repertoires used across ordinary cities to counteract the epistemic violence exerted by the coloniality of power. We argue that decolonising urban knowledges requires a fierce opposition to the spiral of multiple violences experienced in everyday life of racialised, subaltern and marginalised groups, recasting the modes of knowledge production inspired by politics of care and reciprocity while pluralising the sites of engagement, expanding disruptive urban pedagogies and pluriversal designs.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Decolonising urban knowledge(s): an ordinary imperative in extraordinary times |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13604813.2025.2470540 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2025.2470540 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Decoloniality; urban knowledge; urban research; urban pedagogy; epistemic justice |
| 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 > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206744 |
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