- Title : The Concept of City Seen from a Marxist and Weberian Comparative Historical Sociology: Overcoming Eurocentrism and a New Approah to Space
- Author : Ru Sunghee
- Journal : Space and Environment
- Publication Date : June, 2022
- Abstract
In comparative historical sociology, categorized as a sub-discipline within sociology, urban studies have often been the subject of debate. This is due mainly to the lack of research on non-Western or premodern cities and Eurocentric perspective. In this study, I introduced the Marxist and Weberian approach, which were conducted under the name of (comparative) urban studies, and then showed their epistemological and methodological drawbacks. Afterwards, as an alternative to Eurocentrism, I presented ‘provincializing Europe’, and ‘humaninistic reflection on the space.’ Indeed, as a strategy to make up for the lack of urban research in the non-Western and pre-modern ereas, I introduced ‘global urban dynamcis based on connected histories.’ Given that these alternatives enables us to use idiographic approach and thick descriptions of non-European and premodern cities and look at various aspects of in inter-city connectivity in a macroscopic and holistic contet, it will shed valuable light on the comparatitive urban studies.
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