Ruination and post-industrial urban decline

Mah, A. (2017) Ruination and post-industrial urban decline. In: Hall, S. and Burdett, R. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City. Sage, pp. 201-212. ISBN 9781473987869

Abstract

This essay argues that ruination and decline are integral processes within global capitalism, which unfold unevenly, with latent effects, across time and space. Drawing attention to the ‘slow violence’ (Nixon 2011) of ruination as a lived process (Mah 2012), the essay points to the need to go beyond traditional (and often Western-centric) urban sociological accounts. In particular, it argues for the importance of engaging across disciplines, includ- ing post-colonial anthropology and critical human geography, and across multiple scales, particularly the neglected dimensions of the global and the rural.

• Item Type: Book Sections
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Mah, Professor Alice
• Authors: Mah, A.
• Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General); G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography; H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General); H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies
• Publisher: Sage
• ISBN: 9781473987869

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