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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... 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 ...
... health Alison Howell Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt Geographies of the nomos Edited by Stephen Legg Politics of Urbanism Seeing like a city Warren Magnusson Politics of Urbanism Seeing like a city Warren Magnusson.
... sovereignty – the belief that we can somehow become masters of our own world, and change it into what we think it should be – lies behind both radical and mainstream conceptions of politics. Changing the venue of politics from the state ...
... sovereignty in relation to it. (2) Within each state, there is a hierarchy of authority, so that there is always a final authority with respects to issues in dispute. (3) Within each state, everything and everyone is ultimately subject ...
... sovereignty. In fact, it is arguable that there are venues outside the state – the economy, culture, religion, or even science – that offer better opportunities to effect change. Perhaps the state and thestate system are both paper ...
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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 | |