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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... Cultural, Social and Political Thought (CSPT) has enabled me to make connections with faculty and students in many different departments. I owe a great deal to my students, both graduate and undergraduate, and I hope that this book will ...
... interests, cultural or national loyalties, religious commitments, and the usual array of human concerns that are beneath the level of statesmanship. So, the idea that we can change things by acting in and through the state or.
... different drummers. Many of these authorities claim that they are not political – only cultural, economic, religious, communal, or whatever – and such a move often enhances their autonomy, not least in relation to authorities that claim.
... cultural productions. How those conflicts play out in relation to more cooperative activities will determine the form or order that the city takes. To speak of “self-organization” in relation to these complex processes of adjustment is ...
... cultural variations in these practices, but are less cognizant of the fact that they constitute the infrastructure of self-government that makes life in cities possible. Social life anywhere would be impossible without it, but ...
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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 | |