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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... liberal democracy or the state – is also a city, and hence a node for what Louis Wirth (1938) called “urbanism as a way of life”. If – to borrow a term from James C. Scott (1998) – our current tendency is to “see like.
... liberal-democratic nation-state and the liberal order more generally. The second type of theory offers no stable ground and no obvious point of reference. There are concepts, to be sure – rhizomes and lines of flight, singularities and ...
... liberalism and neo-liberalism on the one hand and governmentality on the other. I argue that these lectures enable us to see the problem of government.
... liberal governmentality. This leads me to Chapter 5 (“Seeing Like a State, Seeing Like a City”), where I address myself more directly to political theorists. I argue, not surprisingly, that they have typically seen like a state, when in ...
... liberal-democratic state is to be imposed). The standard view is that each state/society contains a number of cities and towns, all of which are subordinate to the state/society of which they are part.7 In so far as this is true, urban ...
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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 | |