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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... implicit from the beginning in the thought we have inherited from the Greeks: the thought that gives us the terms we use to identify thepolitical, whether we are thinking of politics in the conventional way or are exploring radical ...
... implicit in our own way of thinking is to see like a city. When I see like a state, I see three things immediately: (1) The world is divided into states, each of which has its own territory and claims sovereignty in relation to it. (2) ...
... implicit in the 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 ...
... implicit in urbanism as a way of life are of particular interest. It may seem like the transformations occur behind our backs, but we are always already implicated in them because they result, in the main, from human activities ...
... implicit in the argument of the book as a whole, I come back to it more explicitly in Chapter 7 and the Conclusion.) Nor is it a mistake to look at those authors – like the ones I consider in Chapter 3 and 4 – who are more interested in ...
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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 | |