Robin, E. orcid.org/0000-0002-0327-1549 (2021) City benchmarking, globalized urban scholarship and the view from above : reflections on a few absences. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45 (2). pp. 378-380. ISSN 0309-1317
Abstract
In this short response I address Acuto et al.’s proposition to engage with the political economy of city benchmarking and rankings in order to show that critical urban scholarship can do better than ‘limiting itself to criticism’. I argue that such engagement would require deeper reflexion on the political economy of critical urban scholarship itself and the style of research needed. I also discuss the extent to which this engagement with cities’ comparative imagination as performed through benchmarks, rankings and indices runs the risk of overlooking other forms of global comparative endeavours happening outside of international urban solutions forums.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Urban Research Publications Limited. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2021 12:10 |
Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2023 01:14 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1468-2427.12976 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:171919 |