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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... network of sovereigns acting in concert. The privileged points of intervention can only be discovered in practice: they cannot be anticipated in advance. So, politics, in the sense of an activity whereby we attempt to gain some control ...
... networks, übermenschen and dasein – but it is hard to know what to do with any of them in the absence of an alternative ontology of the political. That is why I think it is so important to think the political through the city. The city ...
... networks – as political organizations that command different forms of loyalty and different resources. This applies as much globally as it does regionally or locally. Although the tendency recently has been to assess the overall effects ...
... networks, gangs, sects, clans, enterprises, and so on. Political authorities, in the sense of authorities that have the capacity to regulate and deploy violence, as well as articulate and enforce rules of conduct, emerge for many ...
Seeing Like a City Warren Magnusson. the so-called terrorist networks that have developed in recent years, can be quite violent. So, wherever there is a city, there are pre-existing and newly emerging political authorities, the exact ...
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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 | |