Conceptual commentary demonstrates the necessity of integrating diverse intellectual traditions into conjunctural urbanism, highlighting how grounding analysis in concrete struggles aids...
Matthew Thompson's article is a welcome addition to conjunctural urbanism: it builds out a conjunctural method for identifying crises of capitalism towards crafting political itineraries of resistance. The point, he says, is to stay with the concrete to change it. As I elaborate in this commentary, to be politically effective, conjunctural urbanism must work across siloed intellectual, geographical and political traditions and be grounded in our own concrete struggles, or we risk blunting the tools of analysis and coalition-building that conjunctural analysis promises.
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