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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... mean that it is always or even usually benign. Urbanism seems to generate its own distinctive forms of violence. Violence is not just a matter of killing people or destroying things. It is also a matter of intimidation, degradation ...
... mean by the dominant ontology of the political, andthe alternative that I think is implicit in conceptions of urbanism as a wayof life. My argument is especially oriented to urbanists – people who studyurban affairs or the city from ...
... , environmental preservation, and social peace. On this conception, the state is the guardian of the market and hence of the city. In so far as people come to rely on the market for their means of livelihood – that is, in so far as.
Seeing Like a City Warren Magnusson. means of livelihood – that is, in so far as people become dependent upon and engaged with a market economy – the state is drawn into a regulatory/protective role that is determined in large degree by ...
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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 | |