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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... 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 ...
... sense”. We resort to the familiar patterns without even knowing it. I do not imagine that I am any more able to escape than the next person, and in fact I think that the effort to escape is part of the problem (Walker 2010). Escapees ...
... sense in which I talk about political ontology – the dominant ontology of politics is in fact a political ontology in that it conceals within itself a certain orientation towards the things that it designates as political. In a way, we ...
... sense, the state is sovereign.7 What follows is a certain conception of politics, one that is centred on the state as the ultimate authority. Politics is partly a matter of who gets to decide: in other words, who will occupy the high ...
... sense of an activity whereby we attempt to gain some control over our own future, has no obvious centre. 9 It follows that whoever or whatever seeks to be sovereign is bound to be disappointed – and our dreams of a good Tsar will not ...
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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 | |