Claire Mercer
@clairemercer.bsky.social
Professor of Human Geography, LSE, UK. Research on urban peripheries, housing and social class. Africa, Tanzania, Dar es Salaam.
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Taken together, these papers offer new ways of thinking with the concept of the frontier that encompasses revisions to established urban theory ('the rent gap'), new concepts from beyond urban studies ('articulation'), new materials (sand), and new geographies (the coast)
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Taken together, these papers offer new ways of thinking with the concept of the frontier that encompasses revisions to established urban theory ('the rent gap'), new concepts from beyond urban studies ('articulation'), new materials (sand), and new geographies (the coast)
Reposted by Claire Mercer
Niranjana R extends theories of agrarian urbanisation to the oceanic in order to critically reflect on representations of Chennai’s coastline as an urban frontier, arguing that fishing can be understood as an agrarian activity that disrupts rural/urban binaries
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Ecologies of alterity: rethinking the coastal frontier
The urban seashore is often seen as a natural frontier, its sands and seawater deemed an exceptional geography to be made productive through industrialization and urbanization. The coastline of Che...
www.tandfonline.com
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Niranjana R extends theories of agrarian urbanisation to the oceanic in order to critically reflect on representations of Chennai’s coastline as an urban frontier, arguing that fishing can be understood as an agrarian activity that disrupts rural/urban binaries
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reposted by Claire Mercer
Situating the case of Singapore within the global geographies of sand extraction, William Jamieson's paper identifies three 'granular frontiers' that demonstrate how sand constitutes a critical but understudied 'outside' of the capitalist urban process
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
Demarcating the granular frontier: planetary urbanization without an inside
In its age of global crisis, sand has acquired a conspicuous profile as an urban resource and undercover vector of statecraft. Amidst mounting reports of the disastrous effects of sand mining stoke...
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Situating the case of Singapore within the global geographies of sand extraction, William Jamieson's paper identifies three 'granular frontiers' that demonstrate how sand constitutes a critical but understudied 'outside' of the capitalist urban process
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
Reposted by Claire Mercer
Drawing on Staurt Hall to discuss agrarian urbanisation in Gurgaon, @termcern.bsky.social argues that the agrarian world operates as an 'articulating principle' that structures capitalist urban expansion 'without guarantees'
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier
This article engages with the work of Stuart Hall to examine conditions of agrarian city-making on India’s urban frontier. The article draws on Hall’s writings on articulation and marxist method to...
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Drawing on Staurt Hall to discuss agrarian urbanisation in Gurgaon, @termcern.bsky.social argues that the agrarian world operates as an 'articulating principle' that structures capitalist urban expansion 'without guarantees'
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
Reposted by Claire Mercer
In their contribution, @angrygeographer.bsky.social and Michael Janoschka rethink rent gap theory through an ethnographic case study of frontiers of resource extraction and extended urbanisation in the Ecuadorian Amazon
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
Rethinking rent gaps from the Amazon: urban contestation and extractive frontiers in Ecuador
Contemporary postcolonial urban geographies aim to challenge dominant knowledge production by providing a more in-depth understanding of the frontiers of capital reproduction. This article explores...
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September 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
In their contribution, @angrygeographer.bsky.social and Michael Janoschka rethink rent gap theory through an ethnographic case study of frontiers of resource extraction and extended urbanisation in the Ecuadorian Amazon
doi.org/10.1080/0272...
doi.org/10.1080/0272...