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Fragment Urbanism: Politics on the Margins of the City

McFarlane, C.

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Fragmentation is a keyword in the history of critical urban thought. Yet the products of fragmentation – the fragments themselves – tend to receive less attention. In this paper, I develop a politics of urban fragments as a contribution to debates both in urban theory and in urban poverty and inequality. I examine inadequate and broken material fragments on the economic margins of the urban global South, and ask how they become differently politicized in cities. I develop a three-fold framework for understanding the politics of fragments: attending to, generative translation and surveying wholes. I build these arguments through a focus on a fundamental provision – urban sanitation – drawing on research in Mumbai in particular, as well as Cape Town, and connecting those instances to research on urban poverty, politics and fragmentation.

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McFarlane, C. (2018). Fragment Urbanism: Politics on the Margins of the City. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 36(6), 1007-1025. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818777496

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 30, 2018
Online Publication Date May 22, 2018
Publication Date Dec 31, 2018
Deposit Date Apr 30, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Print ISSN 0263-7758
Electronic ISSN 1472-3433
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 36
Issue 6
Pages 1007-1025
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818777496
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1327950

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Revised version McFarlane, C. (2018). Fragment Urbanism: Politics on the Margins of the City. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36(3): 1007-1025 https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775818777496. Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications.





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