Deconstructing the urban viewpoint: Exploring uneven regional development with Nancy Fraser’s notion of justice
本文运用南希·弗雷泽的三维正义理论，分析瑞典两个区域的不均衡发展，揭示城市中心主义如何通过经济分配不公、政治误代表和文化误认再生产区域不平等，为政策制定者提供理解区域差异的新视角。
Uneven regional development fomented by city-centric growth agendas generates significant challenges for regional peripheries. Placing regional margins and other plural geographies at the centre, in this article we apply a normative framework based on justice theory to uncover the dominance of urban viewpoints in urban regional development policy. Departing from Nancy Fraser’s three-dimensional justice theory, we provide a deconstruction of city-centrism by illustrating how regional disparities in two regions in Sweden are not only reproduced by economic maldistribution but also by political misrepresentation and cultural misrecognition. By doing so, we illustrate the fruitfulness of applying a normative justice framework to create a broader understanding of factors that contribute to the political production of uneven regional development and need to be addressed if a transformative and progressive change is to occur.