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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821891803321

Autore

Merrifield Andy

Titolo

The politics of the encounter : urban theory and protest under planetary urbanization / / Andy Merrifield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, [2013]

ISBN

1-299-46423-8

0-8203-4581-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Collana

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; ; 19

Disciplina

307.76

Soggetti

Sociology, Urban

Urbanization

Social justice

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

The final frontier: planetary urbanization -- Here comes everybody: problematizing the right to the city -- The urban consolidates: centrality and citizenship -- The politics of the encounter -- The planetary urbanization of non-work -- Revolutionary rehearsals? -- Imaginary pragmatics and the enigma of revolt.

Sommario/riassunto

The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains ""important, virtually and materially, for progressive politics."" And yet, he notes, more than forty years have passed since Henri Lefebvre advanced the powerful ideas that still undergird much of our thinking about urbanization and urban society. Merrifield rethinks the city in light of the vast changes to our planet since 1970, when Lefebvre's seminal Urban Revolution was first published. At the same time, he expand