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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... principles of transformation implicit in urbanism as a way of life are of particular interest. It may seem like the transformations occur behind our backs, but we are always already implicated in them because they result, in the main ...
... principle give us a just world – are the ones bound up with sovereignty, but that is not what I see in the city where I live, or in the places I have visited or have lived before. Nor is it what I see in reports from the latest sites ...
... principle from the one centred on the state system. Chapter 2 is entitled, “Ontologies of the Political”. There, I explainin greater detail what I mean by the dominant ontology of the political, andthe alternative that I think is ...
... principle of modern republicanism, and hence an appropriate focus for our attention. I use my own neighbourhood and my own city to illustrate some of what I can see when I approach things from my own place. What seems clear is that ...
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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 | |