"Humanistic" city in the age of "Capitalocene"

Jon, Ihnji ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3812-8168, Guma, Prince and Simone, Abdoumaliq 2024. "Humanistic" city in the age of "Capitalocene". Annals of the American Association of Geographers 114 (1) , pp. 107-122. 10.1080/24694452.2023.2239893

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Abstract

The humbling climate crisis of the twenty-first century poses a challenge to classical humanism that cherishes the spontaneity of human action and its possibility of instigating newness. With more-than-human philosophies on the mainstream horizon, there remains a conundrum regarding how one can retain the “humanistic” core while attending to the arresting gravity of environmental degradation. This article addresses this enigma in three ways. First, we synthesize urban environmentalism debates and their embattled relationship with humanistic concerns; second, we illuminate everyday creative interventions that urban youth themselves are generating in their continual negotiations between individual and social, old and new, vernacular and technical; and third, we deflect the linear projection of a “Capitalocene” future by exhibiting contingent practices of southern urbanism. Accordingly, we propose new ways of reinventing urban environmentalism that see humans as a part of its divergent future landscapes. Our version of humanistic city frames the urban as a provisional space in which youth socialities and sensibilities are seen as emerging potentialities calibrating the pace of spatial transitions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	2469-4452
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	1 August 2023
Date of Acceptance:	19 July 2023
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2024 09:19
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/161392

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