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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... emerge whether or not anyone is trying to produce such an order and whether or not there is any “sovereign” authority in place. In fact, the presence or absence ofa sovereign authority will be only one factor in the complex equation ...
... emerge will itself be highly variable: sometimes global, sometimes regional, and sometimes highly localized. Moreover, the direction of causation will also vary. It is a mistake to suppose that what happens on a wider scale will always ...
... emerge even in the absence of overarching state authority. This is not to say that the state is useless or that the orders concerned are in any way ideal: only that orders do emerge in some fashion and there are always aspects of those ...
... emerge much later. These agendas do not necessarily or even usually relate to the development of the city as a whole. They tend to be much more specific than that, and to refer back to particular communities, networks, gangs, sects ...
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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 | |