Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a CityRoutledge, 3 juli 2013 - 200 sidor To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political order. Locally and globally, the city exists by virtue of complicated patterns of government and self-government, prompted by proximate diversity. A multiplicity of authorities in different registers is typical. Sovereignty, although often claimed, is infinitely deferred. What emerges by virtue of self-organization is not susceptible to control by any central authority, and so we are impelled to engage politically in a world that does not match our expectations of sovereignty. How then are we are to engage realistically and creatively? We have to begin from where we are if we are to understand the possibilities. Building on traditions of political and urban theory in order to advance a new interpretation of the role of cities/urbanism in contemporary political life, this work will be of great interest to scholars of political theory and urban theory, international relations theory and international relations. |
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... actually part of a loosely articu- lated trans-national metropolis anchored by Seattle and Vancouver but tiedto Chicago, Toronto, Washington, and New York, as well as Shanghai, Delhi, and many other places. My milieu is as much a part ...
... actually prompts dreams of sovereignty, because it focuses on the injustices, violence, degradation, and depredation attendant on the urban in extremis. My focus is different, in that I am trying to understand the other of sovereignty ...
... actually enable order in the West. Close analysis seems to suggest that plays of sovereignty have relatively little to do with it. As I argue in Chapter 1, and throughout the book, urbanism is in itselfa security system, but that does ...
... offers us a place to act politically, but it also dispels our fears and illusions about mastery. We actually can live there without becoming kings or summoning kings to our rescue. 1 Urbanism as governmentality So, where to begin? With the.
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Ontologies of the political | |
Politics of urbanism as a way of life | |
The art of government | |
Seeing like a state seeing like a city | |
Oikos nomos logos | |
From local selfgovernment to politics | |
otherwise than sovereign | |
Notes | |
References | |
Index | |