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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... become otherwise, with different characters, venues, objects, and purposes, has shadowed mainstream political thought – and practice – for a long time. Many of the key theorists of it are French,3 but the most renowned practitioners are ...
... become sovereigns: we should not even try. Unfortunately, the dream of 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 ...
... become or to make predictions about how it is likely to be a generation from now. Rather, I am inviting readers to stand back from what they think they already know and consider it differently. I must emphasize that my argument does not ...
... act politically, but it also dispels our fears and illusions about mastery. We actually can live there without becoming kings or summoning kings to our rescue. 1 Urbanism as governmentality So, where to begin? With the.
... become capable of politics in the proper sense. We also retain the ancient Greek idea that an order sustained only by tradition or violence is not political (which is not to say that either tradition or violence is absent, or ever could ...
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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 | |