TY - BOOK AU - Schindler,Seth TI - Understanding urban processes in Flint, Michigan: Approaching “subaltern urbanism” inductively PY - 2019///. N1 - 91 N2 - Ananya Roy introduced the concept “subaltern urbanism” in her 2011 article Slumdog Cities: Rethinking Subaltern Urbanism. She challenges researchers to move beyond existing epistemological and methodological limits, and offers four concepts, which, taken together, serve as a useful starting point for understanding and representing subaltern urban space. In this article, I argue that instead of a deductive approach that begins with an a priori identification of slums as subaltern urban space, an inductive approach of identifying subaltern urban space would expand the concept and show that subaltern urbanism exists in the global North. I present original research to show that Flint, Michigan, can be considered subaltern urban space. In the final section of the article, I argue that this inductive approach to subaltern urbanism can foster comparative research across the North-South divide and generate the transfer of knowledge from South to North UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-geographie-economie-societe-2019-1-page-117?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -