02759nam 2200625Ia 450 991082189180332120240314002247.01-299-46423-80-8203-4581-4(CKB)2550000001019335(EBL)1222481(SSID)ssj0000860649(PQKBManifestationID)11499675(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000860649(PQKBWorkID)10898228(PQKB)10633395(MiAaPQ)EBC1222481(OCoLC)839684423(MdBmJHUP)muse25490(Au-PeEL)EBL1222481(CaPaEBR)ebr10684514(CaONFJC)MIL477673(EXLCZ)99255000000101933520121129d2013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe politics of the encounter urban theory and protest under planetary urbanization /Andy Merrifield1st ed.Athens University of Georgia Press[2013]1 online resource (189 p.)Geographies of justice and social transformation ;19Description based upon print version of record.0-8203-4529-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 expandGeographies of justice and social transformation.Sociology, UrbanUrbanizationSocial justiceSociology, Urban.Urbanization.Social justice.307.76Merrifield Andy1601875MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821891803321The politics of the encounter3928948UNINA