Outputs (6)

Cities within Cities: Intra-Urban Comparison of Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town (2016)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., Silver, J., & Truelove, Y. (2017). Cities within Cities: Intra-Urban Comparison of Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town. Urban Geography, 38(9), 1393-1417. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1243386

Comparison is now taken as vital to the constitution of knowledge about cities and urbanism. However, debate on comparative urbanism has been far more attentive to the merits of comparisons between cities than it has been to the potential and challen... Read More about Cities within Cities: Intra-Urban Comparison of Infrastructure in Mumbai, Delhi and Cape Town.

Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities (2016)
Journal Article
Bulkeley, H., Luque-Ayala, A., McFarlane, C., & MacLeod, G. (2018). Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities. Urban Studies, 55(4), 702-719. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098016663836

As the 21st Century world assumes an increasingly urban landscape, the question of how definitive urban spaces are to be governed intensifies. At the heart of this debate lies a question about the degree and type of autonomy that towns and cities mig... Read More about Enhancing urban autonomy: towards a new political project for cities.

Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison (2016)
Journal Article
Lancione, M., & McFarlane, C. (2016). Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison. Environment and Planning A, 48(12), 2402-2421. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x16659772

How is life at the urban margins made and remade? In this paper, we examine this question in relation to ‘sanitation urbanism’, and through attention to what we call ‘infra-making’, defined as the interstitial labour of human and non-human agencies a... Read More about Life at the urban margins: sanitation infra-making and the potential of experimental comparison.

The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town (2016)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., & Silver, J. (2017). The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 49(1), 125-148. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12264

In an urbanizing world, the inequalities of infrastructure are increasingly politicized in ways that reconstitute the urban political. A key site here is the politicization of human waste. The centrality of sanitation to urban life means that its pol... Read More about The Poolitical City: “Seeing Sanitation” and Making the Urban Political in Cape Town.

Encountering was it (not) there (2016)
Book Chapter
McFarlane, C. (in press). Encountering was it (not) there. In J. Darling, & H. Wilson (Eds.), Encountering the City. Urban Encounters from Accra to New York (229-232). Ashgate Publishing

Becoming Infrastructure: Body, Waste and the City. (2016)
Book Chapter
Lancione, M., & McFarlane, C. (in press). Becoming Infrastructure: Body, Waste and the City. In A. Blok, & I. Farias (Eds.), Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres (45-62). Routledge