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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... Ontologies of the political Questioning the dominant ontology City, state, empire Urbanism as a political production 3 Politics of urbanism as a way of life The modern state and the Occidental city Human ecology and urbanism as a way of ...
... ontology – the dominant ontology of politics is in fact a political ontology in that it conceals within itself a certain orientation towards the things that it designates as political. In a way, we are called to act within this domain ...
... dominant ontology of the political, seems to leave everyone at a loss. Many fall silent in these circumstances. Certainly, most of my students do. Although they are fascinated by critiques of the existing order of things, they have ...
... Ontologies of the Political”. There, I explainin greater detail what I mean by the dominant ontology of the political, andthe alternative that I think is implicit in conceptions of urbanism as a wayof life. My argument is especially ...
... ontology of urbanism as away of life. Followers of theoretical fashions will notice that I pass over many recent ... dominant ontology. In Chapter 4 (“The Art of Government”), I turn my attention to Michel Foucault's influential lectures ...
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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 | |