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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... suggested almost two centuries ago, change does not come about just because we wish it to happen, or declare it has happened, or put forward schemes for it to occur. In his phrase, we cannot give instructions to the world. Change is not ...
... suggest that a different ontology of the political already exists, and that it has been implicit from the beginning in the thought we have inherited from the Greeks: the thought that gives us the terms we use to identify thepolitical ...
... suggest. I can only gesture at things that I think that we already know, but don't fully 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 ...
... suggest that this or that place reveals the world as it really is now. The result, perhaps, is that this book is more abstract that many people would like. Where are the examples and illustrations? Where are the stories and pictures ...
... suggest that plays of sovereignty have relatively little to do with it. As I argue in Chapter 1, and throughout the book, urbanism is in itselfa security system, but that does not mean that it is always or even usually benign. Urbanism ...
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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 | |