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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... government to politics Understanding local self-government The places of local self-government The traces of politics Conclusion: otherwise than sovereign Notes References Index Acknowledgements I began this book in the context of a.
Seeing Like a City Warren Magnusson. Acknowledgements. I began this book in the context of a joint project with Rob Walker on “Ontologies of the Political”. The project was financed by a Standard Research Grant from the Social Sciences ...
... context. We would have a better understanding of things if we recognized that the world is more like a city than a state or system of states.10 The city in this sense is both localized and globalized: that is, it takes form in ...
... context. Some of them claim sovereignty, others make no such claims. Some are this-worldly, others are other-worldly. Some assert themselves violently, and others do not. Their spatialities and temporalities differ and sometimes ...
... context will itself be the effect of uneven struggles betweenauthorities that often have an interest in concealing their political character. This means that we cannot take the labels assigned to various authorities for granted if we ...
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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 | |