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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... violence Freedom or freedom from freedom? 7 From local self-government to politics Understanding local self-government The places of local self-government The traces of politics Conclusion: otherwise than sovereign Notes References ...
... violence of our contemporary world, and who sees that these ills are effects of the present order of things – capitalist, patriarchal, racist, anthropocentric, and (I would say) statist – is likely to be attracted to the idea that are ...
... violence, deal with external threats, and providethe public facilities, services, and regulations necessary for people to live in relative safety and go about their daily business. The incentive to do such things is strong, since people ...
... violence of our own nature. Perhaps the clue to everything is in this or that centre of power, urban slum, flow of people, practice of government, mode of violence, social movement, simulacrum of life, or whatever. I doubt it, though ...
... violence, degradation, and depredation attendant on the urban in extremis. My focus is different, in that I am trying to understand the other of sovereignty, the political practices that enable forms of order whether or not standard ...
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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 | |