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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... scale. How that order is to be understood is a difficult problem, but when I see like a city I notice a few things immediately. First, the proximate diversity of urban life poses problems that can only be solved when people govern are ...
... scales is characteristic of urban life. (3) Practices of self-government enable civilized order and produce public benefits both in the presence of sovereign authority and in its absence. (4) Order is always temporary and local. (5) ...
... scale at which patterns emerge will itself be highly variable: sometimes global, sometimes regional, and sometimes highly localized. Moreover, the direction of causation will also vary. It is a mistake to suppose that what happens on a ...
... scale with a statist ontology of the political. In my Conclusion, I suggest that a matter as trivial as the bunnies on the lawn outside my office connects with the larger realities I am trying to understand, because in seeing like.
... scale, in that (at least to a significant degree) they oriented themselves (culturally, socially, and economically) to the world as a whole. Moreover, the political leaders of many cities began to recognize that a global orientation was ...
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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 | |