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Doing global urban studies: On the need for engaged pluralism, frame switching, and methodological cross-fertilization

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posted on 2018-10-16, 15:08 authored by Michiel Van Meeteren, David Bassens, Ben Derudder
By way of rejoinder to commentaries by members of the invisible college of postcolonial urbanism, we further develop issues of praxis regarding engaged pluralism and plead for its usefulness. Engaged pluralism when doing global urban studies depends on a research culture where both deconstructive and reconstructive moments are encouraged. Deconstruction benefits from the provincialization of all knowledge. Reconstruction can occur when we bracket ontological and epistemological incommensurability and focus on the cognitively enriching research praxis of frame switching, where research perspectives constitute nonexclusive, temporary, or alternating entries for research.

History

School

  • Social Sciences

Department

  • Geography and Environment

Published in

Dialogues in Human Geography

Volume

6

Issue

3

Pages

296 - 301

Citation

VAN MEETEREN, M., BASSENS, D. and DERUDDER, B., 2016. Doing global urban studies: On the need for engaged pluralism, frame switching, and methodological cross-fertilization. Dialogues in Human Geography, 6 (3), pp.296-301.

Publisher

SAGE Publications © The Authors

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-11-01

Publication date

2016-11-01

Notes

This paper was published in the journal Dialogues in Human Geography and the definitive published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820616676653.

ISSN

2043-8206

eISSN

2043-8214

Language

  • en