Edge City: Reflections on the Urbanocene and the Plantatiocene

IF 1.3 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES

Critical Philosophy of Race Pub Date : 2019-01-17 DOI:10.5325/CRITPHILRACE.7.1.0081

E. Mendieta

引用次数: 4

Abstract

Abstract:Humans built cities, but cities are where we become civil, civilized, and civically minded; we are thus products of cities. Cities are also ubiquitous in the human experience. Yet, the last two hundred years witnessed an unprecedented mega-urbanization of humanity. In 2007, or so, it was announced that more humans now lived in cities than in the countryside. This article aims to analyze the new pattern of mega-urbanization in the twenty-first century, a century that brings extreme challenges: demographic growth (9 billion humans), global warming with its concomitant chaotic and severe weather, massive population displacements, precarious water resources, and greater global economic integration with growing volatility. The largest megalopolises of the twenty-first century will be in the “global South” in the “developing world.” Most of this urbanization will be in the form of irregular urbanization, that is, ghettos, shantytowns, favelas, slums.

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边缘城市:对城市新世和种植园新世的思考

摘要：人类建造了城市，但城市是我们变得文明、文明和有公民意识的地方；因此，我们是城市的产物。城市在人类体验中也无处不在。然而，在过去的两百年里，人类经历了前所未有的大规模城市化。大约在2007年，有消息称，现在生活在城市的人比生活在农村的人多。本文旨在分析21世纪超大城市化的新模式，这一世纪带来了极端挑战：人口增长（90亿人）、全球变暖及其伴随的混乱和恶劣天气、大规模人口流离失所、水资源不稳定以及全球经济一体化加剧和波动加剧。21世纪最大的特大城市将位于“发展中世界”的“全球南方”。这种城市化的大部分将以非正规城市化的形式出现，即贫民区、棚户区、贫民窟。

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Critical Philosophy of Race ETHNIC STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.