TOWARDS A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE ON CLIMATE URBANISM
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Abstract The growing interest in urban areas as sites for climate action has led to new ways of conceiving and planning the urban. As climate actions reshape existing understandings of what cities are or ought to be, they constitute new modalities of what recent scholarship has referred to as ‘climate urbanism’. This research has framed climate urbanism as a climate‐inflected iteration of neoliberal urban development, geared towards the mobilization of ‘green’ private capital for large‐scale infrastructural projects, focused on carbon metrics, and conducive to population displacement through eco‐gentrification. In this intervention, we commend these efforts to deliver a critical perspective on how climate change gives rise to forms of urbanism that reproduce urban injustices without addressing the root causes of the climate crisis. However, we warn against two biases in recent scholarship, namely an emphasis on technological solutions and an overreliance on familiar contexts of climate action. The literature on climate urbanism does not yet reflect the diversity of urban responses emerging under the broad umbrella of urban climate action. Adopting a post‐colonial perspective on climate urbanism, we call for a greater engagement with the heterogeneous character of climate‐changed urban futures.
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Increasing reliance on private finance has allowed real estate and investment firms to seize land and benefits for adaptation, while further marginalizing, invisibilizing, and displacing vulnerable residents.
“studies have also shown that the increasing reliance on private finance has allowed real estate and investment firms to seize land and benefits for adaptation, while further marginalizing, invisibilizing, and displacing vulnerable residents (Robin and Castán Broto, 2020;Teicher, 2018).”
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- Authors
- Robin, E., & Broto, V. C.
- Corresponding author
- Robin, Enora
- Venue
- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2020-12-28
- Volume
- 45
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 869-878
- ISSN
- 0309-1317 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2427
- OpenAlex
- W3114096387
- Cited by
- 94
- References
- 106
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 21 · 2024: 23 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 2
- FWCI
- 21.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (publishedVersion)
- White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Leverhulme Trust
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Urban Studies › Urban Planning and Governance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Keywords
- postcolonial perspectives, urban climate action, neoliberal urban development, green infrastructure, population displacement, urban injustice, technical solutions, climate change, urban future
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