The Urban Political Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism /
This book examines the political and economic trajectories of cities following the 2008 financial crisis. The authors claim that in this era-which they dub "late neoliberalism"-urban spaces, institutions, subjectivities, and organizational forms are undergoing processes of radical transfor...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism
- 2. Presupposing Democracy: Placing Politics in the Urban
- 3. Desiring the Common in the Post-crisis Metropolis: Insurgencies, Contradictions, Appropriations
- 4. The Globalized City as a Locus of the Political: Logistical Urbanization, Genealogical Insights, Contemporary Aporias
- 5. Where is the 'Organisation' in the Urban Political?
- 6. Neoliberalizing Infrastructure and its Discontents: The Bus Rapid Transit Project in Dar es Salaam
- 7. Infrastructure, 'Seeing Sanitation' and the Urban Political in an era of Late Neoliberalism
- 8. The 'Cooperative' or 'Cop-out' Council? Urban Politics at a time of Austerity Localism in London
- 9. The Politics of Consultation in Urban Development and its Encounters with Local Administration
- 10. Precarity, Surplus, and the Urban Political: Shack Life in South Africa
- 11. Voice or Noise? Spaces of Appearance and Political Subjectivity in the London Riots 2011
- 12. The Southern Urban Political in Transcalar Perspective: A View from the Squatter Movements of Belo Horizonte
- 13. Counter Publics and Counter Spaces.
