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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... Human ecology and urbanism as a way of life Catallactics and the unplanned cosmos The uses of disorder 4 The art of government Beyond the problematic of the state Uninflationary critiques Towards a different political science? 5 Seeing ...
... human rights, which refer back to the ideals of modern republicanism and hence to ideas about the well-ordered polity or sovereign state.6 Thus – and this is the second sense in which I talk about political ontology – the dominant ...
... 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.
... human interactions on the logic of commercial transactions. The city exceeds the economy in complexity, and overdetermines it. One aspectof this is that religious, ethnic, and class differences are generated within the city and ...
... human activities: activities that are always mediated politically. Although we would like to think that we could gain control of things – at least to the extent of predicting what is likely to happen – it seems clear that we are caught ...
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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 | |