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Discontent in the world city of Singapore
世界城市新加坡中的不满情绪
Gordon Kuo Siong Tan（新加坡科技设计大学）Jessie PH Poon（美国纽约州立大学水牛城分校）A burgeoning literature on ‘left behind’ places has emerged that captures the backlash against globalisation and highlights the locales that lag world cities. This paper integrates the ‘left behind’ and world cities literatures through the lens of discontent in the context of Singapore, using sentiment analysis and topic modelling as well as interviews with local professionals to unpack the multidimensional aspects of discontent. Focusing on the Singapore–India Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement that spurred discontent directed at foreign Indian professionals, we show that the worlding generated by transnational flows has accentuated intra-urban inequality through racialisation and spatialisation of financial business and suburban residential hubs. Discontent from intra-urban inequality unsettles years of efforts by the state to cultivate cosmopolitan spaces aimed at reducing social exclusion and difference in the world city of Singapore.
关于“落后”地区的研究文献激增，这些文献捕捉到了对全球化的强烈反对，并强调了落后于世界城市的地区。本文以新加坡为背景，从不满的角度，将“落后”和世界城市相关的文献进行了整合，利用情感分析和主题建模，以及对当地专业人士的访谈，从多个维度剖析了不满。我们重点关注引发了对印度籍专业人士不满的《新加坡-印度全面经济合作协定》(CECA)，表明跨国流动产生的世界化通过金融业和郊区住宅中心的种族化和空间化加剧了城市内的不平等。对城市内部不平等的不满扰乱了国家多年来为减少世界城市新加坡的社会排斥和差异而培育世界主义空间的努力。
CECA, discontent, globalisation, ‘left behind’, world cities
新加坡-印度全面经济合作协定、不满、全球化、“落后”、世界城市https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241246913Infrastructural politics: A conceptual mapping and critical review
基础设施政治：概念脉络和批判性回顾
León Felipe Téllez Contreras（英国西苏格兰大学）The notion of infrastructural politics has been increasingly used in urban studies as it helps to explore urbanisation processes, the urban condition and urban life. Given its relevance, this article maps out and critically reviews the main analytical strands that inform its meanings, namely, conventional and popular infrastructural politics. These strands reveal the current tendency to demarcate infrastructural politics as two separate, antagonistic domains that associate the notion with particular hegemonic and subaltern actors, practices and processes. The article problematises this tendency and proposes a broader understanding of infrastructural politics as an ordinary and contentious political arena where diverse actors develop politico-infrastructural repertoires that co-exist in multifaceted, conflictive ways rather than as separate domains. Drawing on political ethnographic understandings of politics, infrastructural politics is conceived as a point of convergence where conventional and popular infrastructural politics meet and mesh. This suggests the possibility of cross-fertilising conversations between infrastructure studies and political ethnography that can refine our understanding of infrastructural politics, first, by promoting a more nuanced examination of the overlaps and interdependencies between hegemonic and subaltern politico-infrastructural actors and practices, and second, by addressing the critical role of infrastructures in enabling and materialising such overlaps and interdependencies.基础设施政治的概念在城市研究中得到越来越多的应用，因为它有助于探索城市化进程、城市状况和城市生活。鉴于其相关性，本文找出并批判性地回顾了阐明其含义的主要分析方面，即传统和流行的基础设施政治。这两个方面揭示了当前的趋势，即将基础设施政治划分为两个独立的、对立的领域，它们将该概念与特定的霸权和庶民行为者、实践和进程联系起来。本文对这种趋势进行了问题分析，并提出了对基础设施政治的更广泛理解，将其视为普通的抗争政治舞台，不同的参与者在这个舞台上开发自己的政治基础设施才能，这些才能以包罗万象的、冲突的方式共存，而不是各自独立。根据政治的政治民族志观点，基础设施政治被认为是传统基础设施政治与流行基础设施政治的交汇点。这表明，基础设施研究和政治民族志之间可以进行相互促进的对话，从而加深我们对基础设施政治的理解。对话可以通过以下两种方式进行：首先，促进对霸权和庶民性政治基础设施行为者和实践之间的重叠和相互依赖关系进行更细致的考察；其次，解决基础设施在促进和实现这种重叠和相互依赖关系方面的关键作用。
infrastructure, politics, subalternity, urban life, urban theory
https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241246206African Urban Studies: Contributions and Challenges
非洲城市研究：贡献与挑战
Sylvia Croese（美国加州大学欧文分校）Scholarship on African cities represents a growing yet still scarce subfield in urban studies, especially considering the scale and variety of African urbanisation patterns. The purpose of this Virtual Special Issue is to review the scholarship published on urban Africa in Urban Studies over the past five decades. In this Editorial, we reflect on the contributions of African urban scholarship and present a selection of articles to highlight the ways in which it has shaped key fields of urban studies. We also note the challenges that underpin ongoing lacunae in urban knowledge production and suggest directions for future work. This discussion provides a lens on our understandings of the urban condition in Africa and the general trajectory of urban scholarship.有关非洲城市的学术研究是城市研究领域中一个正在增长但仍然稀缺的子领域，尤其是考虑到非洲城市化模式的规模和多样性。本期网络特刊的目的是回顾过去五十年城市研究中有关非洲城市的学术研究。在本社论中，我们反思了有关非洲城市的学术研究的来稿，并精选了一系列文章来强调这些学术研究如何影响了城市研究的关键领域。我们还指出了造成城市知识生产中持续存在的缺陷的一些挑战，并提出了未来工作的方向。本文为我们了解非洲的城市状况以及城市学术研究的总体发展轨迹提供了一个视角。
African urban studies, theory from the south, urban knowledge production非洲城市研究、来自南方的理论、城市知识生产
https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980241239184The geography of urban innovation beyond patents only: New evidence on large and secondary cities in the United States
超越仅以专利衡量的城市创新地理分布：美国大城市和二线城市的新证据
Carolina Castaldi（荷兰乌特勒支大学）
首次出版时间：2023/11/03｜研究论文
Abstract
The geography of urban innovation in the United States has often been portrayed as dominated by a few large cities. However, emerging perspectives challenge this notion by highlighting the significance of secondary cities for innovation processes. Unfortunately, prevailing narratives and empirical evidence focus on technological invention only, measured by patents. This study aims to reevaluate the geography of urban innovation by considering various phases of the innovation process and incorporating a broader range of innovation types. In addition to conventional patent metrics, this research suggests incorporating trademarks and design rights as complementary data. The findings reveal that large cities still exhibit prominence when examining absolute counts of innovation. Instead, analysing intensities allows the identification of secondary cities that specialise in various innovation activities beyond technological invention only. Overall, the findings provide compelling evidence that urban innovation in the United States is not limited to a few large cities nor is it solely driven by technological invention.
美国城市创新的地理分布常常被描述为由少数大城市主导。然而，新兴观点通过强调二线城市对创新过程的重要性对这种观点提出了质疑。不幸的是，主流叙述和实证分析仅关注以专利衡量的技术发明。本文旨在通过考虑创新过程的各个阶段并纳入更广泛的创新类型来重新评估城市创新的地理分布。除了传统的专利指标之外，本文还建议将商标和设计权作为补充数据纳入评估指标。研究结果表明，在考察创新的绝对数量时，大城市的表现仍然突出。相反，分析强度可以识别出致力于技术发明之外的各种创新活动的二线城市。总体而言，本文的研究结果提供了令人信服的证据，表明美国的城市创新不仅限于少数大城市，也不仅仅由技术发明驱动。
geography of innovation, urban innovation, large cities, secondary cities
patents, trademarks, design rights
创新地理分布、城市创新、大城市、二线城市、专利、商标、设计权
https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231204718‘Beyond GDP’ in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development
城市中‘超越GDP’的领域：评估城市经济发展的替代方法
Richard Crisp（英国谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学区域经济与社会研究中心）Danny MacKinnon（英国纽卡斯尔大学）Crises spur reflection and re-evaluation of what matters and what is valued. The impacts of the 2008 global financial crisis, COVID-19 pandemic and climate emergency are reigniting debates about the nature of economic development approaches and what they aim to achieve in urban settings. Addressing a substantive gap in contemporary debates by helping to navigate a burgeoning and diverse field, this paper provides a critical and comparative assessment of five leading agendas that have been positioned as alternative and progressive policy responses to urban economic change: inclusive growth; the wellbeing economy; community wealth building; doughnut economics; and the foundational economy. Taking an international perspective, the paper provides a comparative review of their stated visions, mechanisms for change, and the spatial scales through which they are led and implemented. Our argument is that these alternative approaches to urban economic development are shaping creative, innovative and progressive responses to longstanding urban problems within policy and practice communities but require on-going scrutiny and evaluation to realise their potential to meaningfully achieve transformative change.摘要
危机促使人们反思和重新评估事物的重要性和价值。2008 年全球金融危机、新冠疫情和气候紧急情况的影响再次引发关于经济发展方法的性质及其在城市环境中的经济发展目标的讨论。本文通过分析一个新兴的多样化领域，填补了当代讨论中的一个实质性空白，对五个被定位为应对城市经济变革的替代性进步政策的主要议程进行了批判性的比较评估：包容性增长、福祉经济、社区财富建设、甜甜圈经济学和基础经济。立足于国际视角，本文对它们提出的愿景、变革机制以及领导和实施它们的空间尺度进行了比较审查。我们认为，这些城市经济发展的替代方法正在政策和实践社区内影响对长期存在的城市问题的创造性、创新性和进步性回应，但需要持续的审查和评估，以实现其潜力，有意义地实现变革。
community wealth building, inclusive growth, governance, local government, policy社区财富建设、包容性增长、治理、地方政府、政策
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