Can the straw man speak? An engagement with postcolonial critiques of ‘global cities research’

Dialogues in Human Geography

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 247-267

  van Meeteren, Michiel ^a   Derudder, Ben ^b   Bassens, David ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

critical realism; engaged pluralism; global cities; ordinary cities; polemical pluralism; postcolonial urbanism; world cities

Indexed keywords

GENEALOGY; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEM; PERIURBANIZATION; PHILOSOPHY; POST-COLONIALISM; RESEARCH WORK; WORLD CITY;

EID: 85026341099     PISSN: 20438206     EISSN: 20438214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2043820616675984     Document Type: Article

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