Provincializing Dracula urbanism

Abstract

In this commentary, I respond to and extend Wilson and Wyly's ‘Dracula urbanism’ by drawing on feminist, postcolonial, and urban political ecology critiques of global urbanism. To do so, I firstly provincialize Dracula urbanism to reframe this notion as a situated form of knowledge. I then examine how vampires specific to Indonesian and Malay cultures might reveal different insights into the nature of capitalist urbanization. I close with a call for urban scholars to engage more closely with critical perspectives from urban studies that continue to occupy the margins of the field. I also invite careful consideration and reflexivity as to the work we achieve by coining new urbanisms.