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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... Political aspects. I. Title. JS78.M237 2011 320.8′5–dc22 2011001037 ISBN 13: 978-0-415-78241-8 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-0-203-80889-4 (ebk) Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: re-imagining the political 1 Urbanism as governmentality.
... governmentality From urbanism to governmentality Regionalism and globalism Urbanism as a security regime 2 Ontologies of the political Questioning the dominant ontology City, state, empire Urbanism as a political production 3 Politics ...
... governmentality, urbanism, and republicanism Politics and violence Freedom or freedom from freedom? 7 From local self-government to politics Understanding local self-government The places of local self-government The traces of politics ...
... governmentalities, or “proliferating practices of government and self-government”, tend to generate an order of sorts that tends to persist in and against sovereign authority. Second, I see that political authorities of different sorts ...
... Governmentality”. It sets out, in a general way, the conception I am advocating. I focus first on the relationship between urbanism and what Michel Foucault called “governmentality”. I argue that urbanism is governmentality, and that ...
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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 | |