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The Urban Political : Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (269 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783319645346
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 330.90511
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Contents:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism -- Urban Neoliberalism (as We Knew It) -- The Ambivalence of Late Neoliberalism -- The Internal Contradictions of Capitalist Urbanization -- The Negative and Affirmative Forces of the Biopolitical City -- The (Post)Politics Pendulum -- Multiplying Resistance: Poststructuralist and Postcolonial Topologies -- The Urban Political in Theory and Practice: Overview of the Book -- Theorizing the Urban Political -- Materializing the Urban Political -- Governing the Urban Political -- Politicizing the Urban Political -- References -- Part I: Theorizing the Urban Political -- Chapter 2: Presupposing Democracy: Placing Politics in the Urban -- Introduction -- Politics, the Particular and the Plebs -- Politics and the Urban -- The Urban and the Political Take 1: The City as a Stage for Politics -- The Urban and the Political Take 2: The Urban as a Community of Equals -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Desiring the Common in the Post-crisis Metropolis: Insurgencies, Contradictions, Appropriations -- Introduction -- Desiring in Uncertain Times -- The Hopes of the Early 2010s, or the Communism of the Commoners -- The Communism of Capital and Its Contradictions -- Reviving the Spirit of 2011: A Joyful Politics of Encounter -- References -- Chapter 4: The Globalized City as a Locus of the Political: Logistical Urbanization, Genealogical Insights, Contemporary Aporias -- Introduction -- Theoretical Sketches -- Genealogical Insights -- Logistical Urbanization -- The Political and the City -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Materializing the Urban Political -- Chapter 5: Where Is the 'Organisation' in the Urban Political? -- Introduction -- Contemporary Debates in Urban Political Theory -- Urban Post-Political/Democracy.
The Nature of the Organisation -- A Practice Theory of the Organisation -- Urban Politics, Practices and the Organisation: A Case Study Analysis -- The Organizational Legitimation of Austerity -- Experts and Austerity -- The Emergence of Contestation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Neoliberalizing Infrastructure and Its Discontents: The Bus Rapid Transit Project in Dar es Salaam -- BRTs as a Public Transport Policy Fix for Neoliberalism1 -- Bringing the Urban Political Back into the Study of BRTs -- The BRT Evangelical Society -- The Political Economy of BRT in Dar es Salaam -- The Local Politics of BRT in Dar es Salaam -- The International and Urban Political Economy of BRTs -- References -- Interviews -- Chapter 7: Infrastructure, 'Seeing Sanitation' and the Urban Political in an Era of Late Neoliberalism -- Introduction -- Seeing Sanitation -- Poolitical Tactics -- Spectacle: Revolting Geographies? -- Auditing: Speaking the State's Language -- Sabotage: Whose Infrastructural Violence? -- Political Stakes and the Urban Future -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Governing the Urban Political -- Chapter 8: The 'Cooperative' or 'Cop-Out' Council? Urban Politics at a Time of Austerity Localism in London -- Introduction -- The Rise of 'Austeria' and the Erosion of 'Fiscal Democracy' in English Local Government -- Governing Permanent Austeria: The Case of the 'Cooperative Council' -- The Cooperative Council and 'Austerity Realism' -- The Erosion of Fiscal Democracy and the Limits of 'Active' Participation -- Contractualization and Public-Private Entanglements -- Discussion and Conclusion: The Ambivalent Politics of the Cooperative Council -- References -- Chapter 9: The Politics of Consultation in Urban Development and Its Encounters with Local Administration -- Introduction -- The "Rule"/"Role" of Experts in Neoliberal Reason.
Management Consultancies in German Cities -- The Consultants' Visions for Urban Futures in Essen and Berlin -- How Local Administration May Modify Consultants' Advice for Urban Strategies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Precarity, Surplus, and the Urban Political: Shack Life in South Africa -- A Tale of Two Deaths -- A Precarious Liberation -- From Precarity to Anti-blackness -- Gwala's Legacy -- References -- Part IV: Re-politicizing the Urban Political -- Chapter 11: Voice or Noise? Spaces of Appearance and Political Subjectivity in the London Riots 2011 -- What Happened? -- Reactions and Interpretations -- Who is a Political Subject? Problematizing Žižek's Position -- Disarticulated Subject Positions in Late Neoliberalism -- Community Worker? -- Sujets de Droit? -- Consumers? -- Community Activists or Unions Members? -- Discussion and Conclusion: The Question of Political Subjectivity Revisited -- References -- Chapter 12: The Southern Urban Political in Transcalar Perspective: A View from the Squatter Movements of Belo Horizonte -- Introduction -- Struggles for the City in 2010s Belo Horizonte: New Urban Social Movements and ocupações -- Tracing Scalar Connectors -- The Southern Urban and Theoretical-Political Ambivalences -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Counter Publics and Counter Spaces -- Introduction -- Publics and Counter Publics -- Cities, Counter Publics, Oppositional Identities -- Forming Oppositional Institutions and Groups in Cities -- Sharpening Oppositional Identities Through the Fires of Hostility -- Organic Intellectuals and Crafting the Oppositional Identity -- Engaging in the Dominant Public Sphere: Between Opposition and Conformity -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism -- Urban Neoliberalism (as We Knew It) -- The Ambivalence of Late Neoliberalism -- The Internal Contradictions of Capitalist Urbanization -- The Negative and Affirmative Forces of the Biopolitical City -- The (Post)Politics Pendulum -- Multiplying Resistance: Poststructuralist and Postcolonial Topologies -- The Urban Political in Theory and Practice: Overview of the Book -- Theorizing the Urban Political -- Materializing the Urban Political -- Governing the Urban Political -- Politicizing the Urban Political -- References -- Part I: Theorizing the Urban Political -- Chapter 2: Presupposing Democracy: Placing Politics in the Urban -- Introduction -- Politics, the Particular and the Plebs -- Politics and the Urban -- The Urban and the Political Take 1: The City as a Stage for Politics -- The Urban and the Political Take 2: The Urban as a Community of Equals -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3: Desiring the Common in the Post-crisis Metropolis: Insurgencies, Contradictions, Appropriations -- Introduction -- Desiring in Uncertain Times -- The Hopes of the Early 2010s, or the Communism of the Commoners -- The Communism of Capital and Its Contradictions -- Reviving the Spirit of 2011: A Joyful Politics of Encounter -- References -- Chapter 4: The Globalized City as a Locus of the Political: Logistical Urbanization, Genealogical Insights, Contemporary Aporias -- Introduction -- Theoretical Sketches -- Genealogical Insights -- Logistical Urbanization -- The Political and the City -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II: Materializing the Urban Political -- Chapter 5: Where Is the 'Organisation' in the Urban Political? -- Introduction -- Contemporary Debates in Urban Political Theory -- Urban Post-Political/Democracy.

The Nature of the Organisation -- A Practice Theory of the Organisation -- Urban Politics, Practices and the Organisation: A Case Study Analysis -- The Organizational Legitimation of Austerity -- Experts and Austerity -- The Emergence of Contestation -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Neoliberalizing Infrastructure and Its Discontents: The Bus Rapid Transit Project in Dar es Salaam -- BRTs as a Public Transport Policy Fix for Neoliberalism1 -- Bringing the Urban Political Back into the Study of BRTs -- The BRT Evangelical Society -- The Political Economy of BRT in Dar es Salaam -- The Local Politics of BRT in Dar es Salaam -- The International and Urban Political Economy of BRTs -- References -- Interviews -- Chapter 7: Infrastructure, 'Seeing Sanitation' and the Urban Political in an Era of Late Neoliberalism -- Introduction -- Seeing Sanitation -- Poolitical Tactics -- Spectacle: Revolting Geographies? -- Auditing: Speaking the State's Language -- Sabotage: Whose Infrastructural Violence? -- Political Stakes and the Urban Future -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Governing the Urban Political -- Chapter 8: The 'Cooperative' or 'Cop-Out' Council? Urban Politics at a Time of Austerity Localism in London -- Introduction -- The Rise of 'Austeria' and the Erosion of 'Fiscal Democracy' in English Local Government -- Governing Permanent Austeria: The Case of the 'Cooperative Council' -- The Cooperative Council and 'Austerity Realism' -- The Erosion of Fiscal Democracy and the Limits of 'Active' Participation -- Contractualization and Public-Private Entanglements -- Discussion and Conclusion: The Ambivalent Politics of the Cooperative Council -- References -- Chapter 9: The Politics of Consultation in Urban Development and Its Encounters with Local Administration -- Introduction -- The "Rule"/"Role" of Experts in Neoliberal Reason.

Management Consultancies in German Cities -- The Consultants' Visions for Urban Futures in Essen and Berlin -- How Local Administration May Modify Consultants' Advice for Urban Strategies -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: Precarity, Surplus, and the Urban Political: Shack Life in South Africa -- A Tale of Two Deaths -- A Precarious Liberation -- From Precarity to Anti-blackness -- Gwala's Legacy -- References -- Part IV: Re-politicizing the Urban Political -- Chapter 11: Voice or Noise? Spaces of Appearance and Political Subjectivity in the London Riots 2011 -- What Happened? -- Reactions and Interpretations -- Who is a Political Subject? Problematizing Žižek's Position -- Disarticulated Subject Positions in Late Neoliberalism -- Community Worker? -- Sujets de Droit? -- Consumers? -- Community Activists or Unions Members? -- Discussion and Conclusion: The Question of Political Subjectivity Revisited -- References -- Chapter 12: The Southern Urban Political in Transcalar Perspective: A View from the Squatter Movements of Belo Horizonte -- Introduction -- Struggles for the City in 2010s Belo Horizonte: New Urban Social Movements and ocupações -- Tracing Scalar Connectors -- The Southern Urban and Theoretical-Political Ambivalences -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: Counter Publics and Counter Spaces -- Introduction -- Publics and Counter Publics -- Cities, Counter Publics, Oppositional Identities -- Forming Oppositional Institutions and Groups in Cities -- Sharpening Oppositional Identities Through the Fires of Hostility -- Organic Intellectuals and Crafting the Oppositional Identity -- Engaging in the Dominant Public Sphere: Between Opposition and Conformity -- Conclusions -- References -- Index.

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