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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... state, empire Urbanism as a political production 3 Politics of urbanism as a way of life The modern state and the Occidental city Human ecology and urbanism as a way of life Catallactics and the unplanned cosmos The uses of disorder 4 ...
... state but instead on everyday life.1 The body, the bedroom, the kitchen, the workplace, the street, the neighbourhood ... United States.4 It is fair to say that anyone who recoils from the poverty, injustice, waste, and violence of our ...
... 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 to the state's authority: in that sense, the state ...
... state system seems problematic, despite the state's claim to 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 ...
... state or the state system, but would place them in a different context. We would have a better understanding of things if we recognized that the world is more like a city than a state or system of states.10 The city in this sense is ...
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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 | |