LEADER 04317oam 2200577I 450 001 9910793682503321 005 20190503073443.0 010 $a0-262-34747-4 035 $a(CKB)4100000008343168 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5891093 035 $a(OCoLC)1132666141 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse71597 035 $a(OCoLC)1062398147 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1062398147 035 $a(MaCbMITP)10668 035 $a(PPN)254850774 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008343168 100 $a20181112d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPromises of the political $einsurgent cities in a post-political environment /$fErik Swyngedouw 210 1$aCambridge :$cThe MIT Press,$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (xxii, 209 pages) 311 $a0-262-03822-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : promises of the political -- Part I: Post-democracy : thinking (post-)politicization -- The Janus face of governance-beyond-the-state -- Interrogating post-democratization : post politicization as techno-mnagerial governance -- Theorizing the political difference : "politics" and "the political" -- Part II: Practices of post-politicization -- Post-politicizing the environment : "ecology as the new opium for the masses" -- Hotting up : climate change as post-politicizing populism -- Urbanization and environmental futures : politicizing urban political ecologies -- Part III: Specters of the political -- Insurgent architects, radical cities, and the spectral return of the political -- Exploring the idea of emancipatory geographies for the 21st century. 330 $aThe possibility of a new emancipatory and democratizing politics, explored through the lens of recent urban insurgencies . In Promises of the Political , Erik Swyngedouw explores whether progressive and emancipatory politics is still possible in a post-political era. Activists and scholars have developed the concept of post-politicization to describe the process by which "the political" is replaced by techno-managerial governance. If the political domain has been systematically narrowed into a managerial apparatus in which consensual governance prevails, where can we find any possibility of a new democratic politics? Swyngedouw examines this question through the lens of recent urban insurgencies. In Zuccotti Park, Paternoster Square, Taksim Square, Tahrir Square, Hong Kong, and elsewhere, he argues, insurgents have gathered to choreograph new configurations of the democratic. Swyngedouw grounds his argument in urban and ecological processes, struggles, and conflicts through which post-politicization has become institutionally entrenched. He casts "the city" and "nature" as emblematic of the construction of post-democratic modes of governance. He describes the disappearance of the urban polis into the politics of neoliberal planetary urbanization; and he argues that the political-managerial framing of "nature" and the environment contributes to the formation of depoliticized governance -- most notably in the impotent politics of climate change. Finally, he explores the possibilities for a reassertion of the political, considering whether -- after the squares are cleared, the tents folded, and everyday life resumes -- the urban uprisings of the last several years signal a return of the political. 606 $aUrban ecology (Sociology)$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aPolitical ecology$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aPopulism$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aRadicalism$xHistory$y21st century 606 $aPolitical participation$xHistory$y21st century 610 $aURBANISM/General 610 $aENVIRONMENT/General 610 $aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Sociology 615 0$aUrban ecology (Sociology)$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical ecology$xHistory 615 0$aPopulism$xHistory 615 0$aRadicalism$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical participation$xHistory 676 $a307.76 700 $aSwyngedouw$b E$g(Erik),$0275944 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793682503321 996 $aPromises of the political$93851362 997 $aUNINA