Undoing crisis urbanism: Rewiring the circuits of relational harm towards relational repair

In this article, I begin with a conception of the urban as co-constituted and relational. However, I argue that relations are not intrinsically positive, and it is vital to name the centrality of relational harm in conceiving of crisis urbanism. Through this naming, it becomes possible to advance a clearer conception of reparative urbanism as a project laboring towards relational repair as life-affirming. In searching for openings for reparative circuits, I argue that sites of violence are equally sites of liberation. Ultimately, it is vital to attend to grounded enduring practices that work to seed and reconfigure new subjectivities and institutions over time. As scholars, we should pay attention to and support these labors, understanding them as uncertain, emergent, patchy, vital, and experimental.