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 order. Locally and globally, the city exists by virtue of ... political and urban theory in order to advance a new interpretation of the role of cities ... Science, University of Victoria, Canada. Interventions Edited by: Jenny ...
... 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 like a state, seeing like a city Seeing.
... Political Thought, Canadian Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, BC Political Studies Association, and American Association of Geographers. Acknowledgements.
... Political Science has provided a supportive environment for this research, and its Interdisciplinary Programme in Cultural, Social and Political Thought (CSPT) has enabled me to make connections with faculty and students in many ...
... science – that offer better opportunities to effect change. Perhaps the state and thestate system are both paper tigers. Many people have thought so. Nevertheless, the world is organized as a system of sovereign states, which claim ...
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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 | |