Urban Political Geographies; A Global Perspective

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

ISBN: 9780857028846 | 0857028847
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 12/6/2011

Rent

(Recommended)

$12.09

Term

Due

Price

Semester

Dec 13

$22.41

Quarter

Aug 16

$12.09

Short Term

Jul 1

$11.48

*This item is part of an exclusive publisher rental program and requires an additional convenience fee. This fee will be reflected in the shopping cart.
Buy Used

In Stock Usually Ships in 24 Hours.

$48.83
Buy New

Print on Demand: 2-4 Weeks. This item cannot be cancelled or returned.

$71.45
eBook

Available Instantly

Online: 180 Days

Downloadable: 180 Days

$47.34

This compelling new textbook scrutinizes urban politics through a theoretical and empirical lens to provide readers with a clear understanding of the relationship between political, spatial and economic issues on the urban environment. Taking a truly global analysis, the book uses international comparative case studies from cities across the world including London, Beijing, Austin, and Vancouver. Engaging in style and thorough in its coverage of the key issues, this book draws on ideas and theories from human geography, politics, sociology, economics, and development.

List of Figures	p. vii
About the Authors	p. viii
Foreword: the Athenian symptom	p. ix
Foreword: the nine lives of neoliberalism	p. xiii
Foreword: politics between the lines	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
Globalization and the urban experience	p. 1
The triad of urban politics	p. 12
Overview of the book's structure	p. 19
Politics as Representation	p. 23
Urban Development and the Politics of Representation	p. 25
Introduction: towards a political economy of representation	p. 26
Governing the image of the city	p. 27
From Fordism to post-Fordism: reinventing cities in a context of economic transition	p. 30
Postmodernizing the capitalist city	p. 33
Celebrating the global city	p. 37
The environmentalization of the urban experience	p. 45
Concluding reflections: the Eurocentrism of urban scholarship	p. 49
Making Culture Work: The Rise of the Creative City	p. 51
Introduction: urban development in a knowledge-based capitalism	p. 51
Creative cities: economies of diversity and discursive strategies in North America	p. 53
Governmentalizing the cultural city in Europe and Asia	p. 59
Conclusion: culture beyond representation	p. 67
Politics as Government	p. 69
Urban Neoliberalism: Ascent and Crisis	p. 71
Introduction: the irresistible rise of neoliberalism	p. 72
At the origins of neoliberalism: the urban question in the 1970s	p. 74
The 'new urban politics'	p. 77
The practice of urban neoliberalism	p. 86
Neoliberalizing urban economic spaces	p. 93
The expected unforeseen: the housing bubble and the global recession	p. 99
Urban Geopolitics: Legitimate Violence, Terrorism, Urbicide	p. 103
Introduction: the governmentalization of the urban experience	p. 104
The politics of fear	p. 107
From fear to communitarian self-defence	p. 115
The use of force as a threat: terrorism, urban marginality and the politics of pre-emption	p. 119
Cities at war/the war against cities	p. 122
Conclusions: the visible and the invisible in urban geopolitics	p. 126
Politics as Contestation	p. 129
Urban Justice: Struggles and Movements	p. 131
Introduction: the ethical turn in democratic politics	p. 132
Social justice in question: equality, recognition, domination	p. 134
Rights to the city	p. 138
Justice movements: limits and potentialities	p. 144
Justice, globalization and the environment	p. 148
Conclusion: the encounter between institutionalist and Marxist perspectives	p. 155
Urban Citizenship: Insurgencies and Recognition	p. 157
Introduction: the crisis of national citizenship	p. 158
The promises of urban citizenship	p. 159
The globalization of migration and the multiple geographies of belonging	p. 163
Dissidence or normalization: the quandaries of sexual citizenship	p. 172
Conclusion: the 'common place' of citizenship	p. 177
Conclusion: Beyond Post-neoliberal Melancholia	p. 179
Glossary	p. 182
References	p. 185
Acknowledgements	p. 204
Index	p. 205
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

FREE SHIPPING

Amazon no longer offers textbook rentals. We do!

Urban Political Geographies; A Global Perspective

Summary

Author Biography

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials