《伦敦堡垒:为什么我们需要从首都手中拯救国家

IF 0.2 3区 历史学 Q4 AREA STUDIES
Michael Tichelar
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有助于形成和发展新的政治联盟”(113)。在费雷里的研究完成期间,紧缩政策与经济萧条相结合,使“临时”的想法成为一个强有力的讨论领域。Ferreri系统地但也非常微妙地展示了在伦敦这样的城市,临时性与日常生活的现实和动态之间的“深刻脱节”(141)。从这个意义上说,临时性是费雷里所说的“复兴的创业城市议程”(142)的燃料。有时,艺术和文化为快速的城市暴利对伦敦社区造成的真正伤害提供了烟幕弹。最终,她警告我们不要对短暂性的越轨潜力抱有任何希望:“临时城市主义通过将地方视为未充分利用的资产的创业眼光,重新定义了与城市和城市动态的关系模式”(160)。这本书对任何声称的由于城市的临时性而产生的积极因素都持悲观态度,这是正确的。费雷里认为,可能在伦敦创造正义的转型条件必然是革命性的:“需要回收空间和时间”(168)。这本书是对伦敦接受新的城市发展模式的一段时间的重要描述。危机的语言助长了紧缩政策的使用,以证明福利国家的大规模转型是合理的,这反映在对伦敦临时性的描述中。在这座城市生活和工作的人们看到了一系列不稳定和不公正的条件,这是一个迷人的未来,但费雷里仔细地证明了这一承诺只是一种幻觉。我确实想知道,在这本书的最后一章,是否有更多的空间来探索短暂性的根本可能性。我想起了朱迪斯·巴特勒(Judith Butler)关于不稳定生活的文章,认为不稳定既是生活的基本质量,也是分配不均时造成巨大不公正的根源。稀缺和私有制政治可能比暂时性政治本身更为恶劣。也就是说,费雷里的论点自始至终都很有力,很有说服力,我可能陷入了她描述得很好的陷阱。
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Fortress London: Why We Need to Save the Country from its Capital
contribute to the formation and development of new political alliances’ (113). Policies of austerity combined with economic depression made the idea of the ‘temporary’ a potent area of discourse during the period in which Ferreri’s research was completed. Ferreri shows systematically but also with great nuance where the ‘profound disconnect’ (141) between temporariness and the realities and dynamics of everyday life in a city such as London. Temporariness in this sense is a fuel for what Ferreri terms a ‘resurgent entrepreneurial urban agenda’ (142). At times, art and culture have provided a smokescreen for the very real harms done to London’s communities by rapid urban profiteering. Ultimately she warns us against the any hope for the transgressive potential of ephemerality: ‘Temporary urbanism redefines modes of relation to the city and to urban dynamics through an entrepreneurial gaze that sees places as underused assets’ (160). This book is rightly pessimistic about any claimed positives arising from temporariness in the city. Ferreri believes that the conditions of transformation that might create justice in London are necessarily revolutionary: ‘space and time need to be reclaimed’ (168). This book is an essential account of a period of time in which London embraced newpatterns of urban development. The language of crisis that fuelled the use of austerity to justify the wholesale transformation of the welfare state is mirrored in this account of temporariness in London. Amore precarious and unjust set of conditions have been presented to the people who live and work in the city as a glamorous future, but Ferreri has carefully demonstrated that this promise was an illusion. I do wonder if there might have been more scope to explore the radical possibilities of ephemerality in the final chapter of the book. I was left thinking of Judith Butler’s writing on precarious life, the notion that precarity is at once a fundamental quality of life and a something that when distributed unevenly is a source of great injustice. The politics of scarcity and private ownership are perhaps the greater villain than the temporary per se. This said, Ferreri’s argument is robust and persuasive throughout, and I may be falling into the same trap that she describes so well.
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London Journal
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期刊介绍: The scope of The London Journal is broad, embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past and present, including comparative studies. The Journal is multi-disciplinary and is intended to interest all concerned with the understanding and enrichment of London and Londoners: historians, geographers, economists, sociologists, social workers, political scientists, planners, educationalist, archaeologists, conservationists, architects, and all those taking an interest in the fine and performing arts, the natural environment and in commentaries on metropolitan life in fiction as in fact
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