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Promises of the political : insurgent cities in a post-political environment / Erik Swyngedouw.

By: Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]Description: xxii, 209 pages 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780262535656
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.76 23
Contents:
Introduction : 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : 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.