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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... sovereignty. Who could not be moved by the emergence of a new figure or figures who might use that gift of sovereignty differently, and so act the part of goodTsars and deliver us from the ills that beset us? And, who might not fear the ...
... sovereignty.8 (2) Only some of the political authorities are arranged in a neat hierarchy: most are not. The space of the state is only one of many. Other histories are enacted in spaces that are qualitatively different, and cannot be ...
... sovereignty, others make no such claims. Some are this-worldly, others are other-worldly. Some assert themselves violently, and others do not. Their spatialities and temporalities differ and sometimes completely incommensurate. As a ...
... sovereignty is infinitely deferred. It maybe claimed or posited, but it is never realized – not in the sense that gives the idea of sovereignty such force as an attractor for everyone who would like to change the world, or just preserve ...
... sovereignty, because it focuses on the injustices, 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 ...
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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 | |