This article considers the interface of taxonomies of race and migration crystallised through the materialities of the contemporary city in the shadow of the 7th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire. It draws on multi-method empirical research that interrogates the notion of the open city. The article proposes that ‘entanglement’ and ‘contaminations’ of material and cultural formations confound some claims made in the name of the good city, recognising what Marilyn Strathern might describe as the recursive ‘contamination’ of normative and empirical evidence. The article argues that it is imperative to excavate the normative domain of the empirical, and curate the empirical realisation of the normative, in rethinking a truly global sociological imagination. It concludes by suggesting that one way of approaching this is through a more forensic understanding of what is taken as ‘evidence’ in social sciences that should inform an interdisciplinary urban studies.

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（开放）城市中种族和移民的纠葛：社会学想象的分析和规范张力

本文探讨了在格伦菲尔塔火灾七周年的阴影下，通过当代城市的物质性而具体化的种族和移民分类学的界面。它利用多种方法的实证研究来质疑开放城市的概念。文章提出，物质和文化形态的“纠缠”和“污染”混淆了一些以好城市名义提出的主张，并认识到玛丽莲·斯特拉森可能将其描述为规范和经验证据的递归“污染”。文章认为，在重新思考真正的全球社会学想象时，必须挖掘经验的规范领域，并策划规范的经验实现。最后，它建议解决这个问题的一种方法是对社会科学中被视为“证据”的内容进行更科学的理解，这些证据应该为跨学科的城市研究提供信息。