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

• Autore: Merrifield Andy
• Pubblicazione: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, [2013]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (189 p.)
• Disciplina: 307.76
• Soggetto topico: Sociology, Urban; Urbanization; Social justice
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The politics of the encounter
• ISBN: 1-299-46423-8; 0-8203-4581-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821891803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Geographies of justice and social transformation.