全球南方城市主义:对“南方”与“边缘”再思考
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马凌(1977—),女,湖南隆回人,博士,教授,主要研究方向为社会文化地理、旅游与消费地理、城市研究。E-mail: maling@gzhu.edu.cn |
收稿日期: 2025-08-12
修回日期: 2025-10-11
网络出版日期: 2025-12-16
基金资助
国家自然科学基金项目(42371229)
国家自然科学基金项目(42430515)
国家自然科学基金项目(42571287)
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Global Southern urbanism: Rethinking “south” and “marginality”
Received date: 2025-08-12
Revised date: 2025-10-11
Online published: 2025-12-16
Supported by
National Natural Science Foundation of China(42371229)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(42430515)
National Natural Science Foundation of China(42571287)
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随着世界格局的动态变化,全球南方国家及城市逐渐成为塑造世界秩序、解决全球性问题的重要主体和积极参与者,而南方城市主义也成为全球城市发展不可或缺的知识来源和实践路径。本文借助CiteSpace软件对1996—2024年全球南方城市的研究议题进行系统分析,发现:①在现实议题上,研究聚焦于城市居住与空间争夺、城市日常生活与社会文化、基础设施与智慧城市建设等话题,揭示了南方城市在权利对抗与话语协商、居民自适应与非正规性、不平衡性与社会正义等方面的独特经验。②在理论演进上,南方城市主义在持续的讨论中发展出自身的理论框架,既吸纳了后殖民主义、新自由主义批判等宏观视角,又衍生出平台城市主义、平民主义和日常城市主义等微观理论分支,形成了宏微观结合的知识体系。③在实践与方法上,南方城市主义及相关理论的在地化进一步促进城市空间开发为多功能、高包容度的生活场景。这一理论框架拓展了城市认识论和方法论,为全球南方城市包括普通及边缘城市的发展提供了理论范式,也为中国城市的均衡发展带来启示,是国家与全球城市体系良性建设的战略组成。
马凌 , 左晓闪 , 朱竑 , 杨蓉 , 袁振杰 . 全球南方城市主义:对“南方”与“边缘”再思考[J]. 地理科学, 2026 , 46(1) : 140 -152 . DOI: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.20250622
With dynamic changes in global politics, Global Southern countries and cities have gradually become important actors and active participants in shaping world order and addressing global issues. Southern urbanism has also become an indispensable source of knowledge and a practical path for globalization development. This article uses CiteSpace, a literature analysis software to conduct statistical and visual analysis of existing research on Global Southern cities and southern urbanism, summarize the characteristics of two topics and analyze their theoretical framework and main issues in Western academic literature. The findings are as follows, 1) The current research on global southern cities include topics such as urban living and spatial competition, daily urban life and urban socio-cultural development, infrastructure and smart city construction. These topics reflect the unique experiences of global southern cities in imbalanced development, residents’ power struggle and negotiation, informality, technological adaptation, lobal governance and social justice; 2) The theory of southern urbanism comes from theoretical discussions on global urbanism, neoliberalism, and postcolonialism, and includes recent topics such as platform urbanism, populism, and everyday urbanism; 3) The application of southern urbanism and its related theories promote the transformation of urban space towards multifunctional and a more inclusive living scenario. In sum, global southern urbanism has expanded urban studies epistemology, providing a new theoretical paradigm for studying Global Southern cites, and also bringing insights for a more balanced development in global urbanization process. It is an important strategic frontier for a healthy and sustainable development of the nation as well as the global urban system.
Key words: global urbanization; Global Southern cities; southern urbanism; south; marginality
表1 1996年以来全球南方及边缘城市与南方城市主义研究中被引频次前10的文献信息Table 1 Top 10 cited literature in Global Southern cities and marginal cities and southern urbanism research since 1996 |
| 共被引频次 | 作者 | 年份 | 题目 | 期刊 | 研究主题 |
| 14 | Bhan G等 | 2019 | Notes on a southern urban practice | Environment and Urbanization | 以印度为例探讨全球南方城市理论和实践[10] |
| 13 | Lawhon M等 | 2020 | Disambiguating the southern urban critique: Propositions, pathways and possibilities for a more global urban studies | Urban Studies | 消除南方城市批判的歧义:更全球化城市研究的议题、途径和可能性[27] |
| 11 | Lawhon M等 | 2018 | Thinking through heterogeneous infrastructure configurations | Urban Studies | 差异化基础设施配置与南方城市化研究[23] |
| 10 | Caldeira T P R等 | 2016 | Peripheral urbanization: Autoconstruction, transversal logics, and politics in cities of the global south | Environment and Planning D | 边缘城市化:全球南方城市中的自治与政治[28] |
| 4 | Robinson J | 2011 | Cities in a world of cities: The comparative gesture | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | 全球化背景下的南北城市对比研究[29] |
| 4 | Robinson J | 2016 | Thinking cities through elsewhere: Comparative tactics for a more global urban studies | Progress in Human Geography | 从“他处”思考城市:用比较策略进行更全球视角的城市研究[30] |
| 4 | Lawhon M等 | 2016 | Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory | Regional Studies | 城市理论地方化过程中的认知更新[31] |
| 3 | Guma P K等 | 2021 | Smart city making? The spread of ICT-driven plans and infrastructures in Nairobi | Urban Geography | 建造智慧城市?非洲内罗毕信息与通信技术驱动下的城市基础设施的普及[32] |
| 3 | Kanai J M等 | 2018 | Cities on and off the map: A bibliometric assessment of urban globalization research | Urban Studies | 全球城市化研究的文献分析和不平衡发展[33] |
| 3 | McFarlane C等 | 2017 | The political city: “Seeing sanitation” and making the urban political in cape town | Antipode | 开普敦的环境卫生治理与城市政治[34] |
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