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Entries for 'Mumbai' and 'Squatter Movements'. (2010)
Book Chapter
McFarlane, C. (2010). Entries for 'Mumbai' and 'Squatter Movements'. In R. Hutchison, M. Aalbers, R. Beauregard, & M. Crang (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Urban Studies. SAGE Publications

The Comparative City: Knowledge, Learning, Urbanism (2010)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2010). The Comparative City: Knowledge, Learning, Urbanism. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34(4), 725-742. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00917.x

What might be the implications for urban studies if we take ‘comparison’ not just as a method, but as a mode of thought that informs how urban theory is constituted? Comparative research is experiencing resurgence in urban studies, yet there has been... Read More about The Comparative City: Knowledge, Learning, Urbanism.

The limits of responsibility: a postcolonial politics of academic knowledge production (2010)
Journal Article
Jazeel, T., & McFarlane, C. (2010). The limits of responsibility: a postcolonial politics of academic knowledge production. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35(1), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00367.x

A range of recent debates in geography have considered responsibility and/or critical practice, including the connections between knowledge production, ethics and politics. Taking our cue from these debates, this paper explores the question and limit... Read More about The limits of responsibility: a postcolonial politics of academic knowledge production.

Translocal assemblages: space, power and social movements (2009)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2009). Translocal assemblages: space, power and social movements. Geoforum, 40(4), 561-567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2009.05.003

In this paper, I deploy an analytic of ‘translocal assemblage’ as a means for conceptualising space and power in social movements. I offer a relational topology that is open to how actors within movements construct different spatial imaginaries and p... Read More about Translocal assemblages: space, power and social movements.

Guest Editors Introduction: Debating Capital, Spectacle and Modernity (2008)
Journal Article
Jeffrey, A., McFarlane, C., & Vasudevan, A. (2008). Guest Editors Introduction: Debating Capital, Spectacle and Modernity. Public Culture, 20(3), 531-538. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2008-011

This article introduces the dossier of responses to the RETORT collective's Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (2005). We seek to ground this text in its political and theoretical context, identifying its relevance to scholar... Read More about Guest Editors Introduction: Debating Capital, Spectacle and Modernity.

Governing the contaminated city: infrastructure and sanitation in colonial and postcolonial Bombay (2008)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2008). Governing the contaminated city: infrastructure and sanitation in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 32(2), 415-435. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00793.x

This paper examines specific ways in which sanitation infrastructure matter politically both as a set of materials and as a discursive object in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. It reflects on a history of sanitation as a set of concepts which can b... Read More about Governing the contaminated city: infrastructure and sanitation in colonial and postcolonial Bombay.

Urban Shadows: Materiality, the 'Southern city', and Urban Theory (2008)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2008). Urban Shadows: Materiality, the 'Southern city', and Urban Theory. Geography Compass, 2(2), 340-358. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2007.00073.x

We may be witnessing a ‘Southern turn’ in urban studies, but the implications for urban theory are only beginning to be worked through. In this article, I argue the need for urbanists to engage with a variety of ‘shadows’ on the edges of urban theory... Read More about Urban Shadows: Materiality, the 'Southern city', and Urban Theory.

Postcolonial Bombay: decline of a cosmopolitan city? (2008)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2008). Postcolonial Bombay: decline of a cosmopolitan city?. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26(3), 480-499. https://doi.org/10.1068/dcos6

Discussions of cosmopolitanism in Bombay often focus on the rubrics of communal tension, tolerance, and violence, and frequently report the decline of a once cosmopolitan city, especially as a result of the communal riots and bombings that occurred i... Read More about Postcolonial Bombay: decline of a cosmopolitan city?.

Crossing Borders: development, learning and the North-South divide (2006)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2006). Crossing Borders: development, learning and the North-South divide. Third World Quarterly, 27(8), 1413-1437. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590601027271

While the validity of categories like 'First' and 'Third' World or 'North' and 'South' has been increasingly questioned, there have been few attempts to consider how learning between North and South might be conceived. Drawing on a range of perspecti... Read More about Crossing Borders: development, learning and the North-South divide.

Knowledge, learning and development: a post-rationalist approach (2006)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2006). Knowledge, learning and development: a post-rationalist approach. Progress in Development Studies, 6(4), 287-305. https://doi.org/10.1191/1464993406ps144oa

The relations between knowledge, learning and development are of growing importance in development, but despite the growth of interest in this area since the mid-1990s, key issues have yet to be explored. This review argues the need to attend to how... Read More about Knowledge, learning and development: a post-rationalist approach.

Transnational development networks: bringing development and postcolonial approaches into dialogue (2006)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C. (2006). Transnational development networks: bringing development and postcolonial approaches into dialogue. The Geographical Journal, 172(1), 35-49. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2006.00178.x

This paper explores some of the ways in which a dialogue between development and postcolonial scholarship might contribute to the theorizing of transnational networks in contemporary development. It does so through consideration of three inter-relate... Read More about Transnational development networks: bringing development and postcolonial approaches into dialogue.