This paper provides a critical review of recent research on the consumption of
'convenience'food, highlighting the contested nature of the term and exploring its …

COMPARATIVE URBANISM 'Comparative Urbanism fully transforms the scope and purpose
of urban studies today, distilling innovative conceptual and methodological tools. The …

Inspired by postcolonial critiques, urban studies today is characterized by conceptual and
methodological experimentation in pursuit of a more global approach to understanding …

Despite global academic interest, the field of urban China continues to be dominated by
exceptionalist theorising. Given that the unique properties of Chinese urbanisation present …

This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of
doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind …

This article offers a critique of the self-observation of the social sciences practiced in the
philosophy of the social sciences and the critique of epistemological orientations. This kind …

In this article, we study the use of curricula vitae (CV) for competitive funding decisions in
science. The typically sober administrative style of academic résumés evokes the …

Informal settlement growth in various countries has led to distinctive actions that enhance
low‐income populations' accessibility to adequate, safe and affordable housing and basic …

This paper expands the repertoire of comparative urbanism by putting forward a method of
'hopeful comparison', in which we explore an asynchronous comparison between post-war …

The article outlines ideas for a methodology of collaborative theorizing. The first part
introduces our understanding of theorizing as a craft that provides all scholars in the social …