Urban Margins and the Global Intimate

Authors

  • Aparna Parikh Dartmouth College

Keywords:

Global intimate, global South, urban belonging, Iran, South Asia, Mexico

Abstract

The papers in this themed issue draw on the feminist analytic of the global intimate to center ongoing practices of world making and offer conceptual and emancipatory possibilities for feminist urbanism. Collectively, the papers interrogate and challenge scalar and discursive notions of the ‘center,’ analyze the significance and limitations of the urban as a site of aspiration, and present strategies adopted for world making and urban belonging. Looking from Ladakh and other Indian cities, Yucatán in Mexico, and the cities of Tehran and Mashhad in Iran, the papers facilitate a dialogue across South-South contexts and contribute to reframing the process of knowledge production.

 

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Published

2021-08-17

How to Cite

Parikh, A. (2021). Urban Margins and the Global Intimate. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 20(4), 341–345. Retrieved from https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/2184

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Themed Section - From the Margins Within (Guest Ed. Aparna Parikh)