The Routledge Handbook of Southern Urbanism(s) (Routledge International Handbooks)

Cities are at the centre of a contemporary civilisational crisis, marked by displacement, climate breakdown, armed conflict, authoritarianism, and widening inequality.These conditions are not external shocks to urban life but constitutive forces through which cities are made, governed, inhabited, and contested.It is from these uneven, conflictual, and lived terrains that Southern urbanism(s) is being enacted today.This Handbook traces key debates shaping contemporary urbanisation through Southern urbanism(s) as an epistemic orientation, engaging critically with how urban theory and practice are being reworked in contexts where crises are most intensely lived and negotiated.Rather than offering models or solutions, the volume examines how urban knowledge is produced through situated practices, struggles, and experiments.The book is organised into six interconnected sections that address the ethics and politics of urban inquiry; the entanglements of theory and practice; the governance of