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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... things – capitalist, patriarchal, racist, anthropocentric, and (I would say) statist – is likely to be attracted to the idea that are politics might be completely different if only people could Introduction: re-imagining the political.
... things. Moreover, these established ways entrenched in our own thinking as “common 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 ...
... things that it designates as political. In a way, we are called to act within this domain if we are to be properly human or civilized. To disavow citizenship is apparently to back away from the responsibilities that we have as people ...
... things from the viewpoint of a sovereign government or a sovereign people (or sovereign individuals or a sovereign “world order”: these are all similar ways of thinking), then an alternative already implicit in our own way of thinking ...
... things, structuring the space for political action and offering a focus for political campaigns. The twentiethand twenty-first-century heirs of the anarchists and socialists – calling themselves pacifists, feminists, environmentalists ...
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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 | |