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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457523103321

Autore

Magnusson Warren <1947-, >

Titolo

Politics of urbanism : seeing like a city / / Warren Magnusson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-283-44291-4

9786613442918

0-203-80889-4

1-136-67172-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Interventions

Disciplina

320.8/5

Soggetti

Municipal government

City-states

Communities - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Politics of Urbanism; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: re-imagining the political; 1. Urbanism as governmentality; From urbanism to governmentality; Regionalism and globalism; Urbanism as a security regime; 2. Ontologies of the political; Questioning the dominant ontology; City, state, empire; Urbanism as a political production; 3. Politics of urbanism as a way of life; The modern state and the Occidental city; Human ecology and urbanism as a way of life; Catallactics and the unplanned cosmos; The uses of disorder; 4. The art of government

Beyond the problematic of the stateUninflationary critiques; Towards a different political science?; 5. Seeing like a state, seeing like a city; Seeing like a state; Seeing like a city; Seeing like a theorist; 6. Oikos, nomos, logos; Logos/nomos, oikos/polis; Eco-governmentality, urbanism, and republicanism; Politics and 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; Index



Sommario/riassunto

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 virtu