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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... recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR's traditional geopolitical imaginary.” Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i at Mãnoa, USA The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within ...
... recognize that the polis – the ancestor of the modern republic or 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 ...
... recognized that the world is more like a city than a state or system of states.10 The city in this sense is both localized and globalized: that is, it takes form in particular places, but also generates an order of sorts on a global ...
... recognize. It is for the reader to work out whether the argument could be sustained against objections that I do not consider here. In the student world, which I deal with as a professor, there are both politicos who get involved in ...
... recognize that practices of self-government are ubiquitous. These practices are so much a part of everyday urban life that we often take them for granted: to a remarkable extentpeople line up, take turns, let one another pass on the ...
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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 | |