Urban Political Geographies: A Global Perspective

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Table of contents\n\nForeword: The Athenian Symptom by Ola Söderström \t\nForeword: The Nine Lives of Neoliberalism by Jamie Peck \t\nForeword: Politics Between the Lines by AbdouMaliq Simone \t\n\nIntroduction \t\nGlobalization and the Urban Experience \t\nThe Triad of Urban Politics \t\nOverview of the Book's Structure \t\n\nPART ONE: POLITICS AS REPRESENTATION \t\nUrban Development and the Politics of Representation \t\nIntroduction: towards a political economy of representation \t\nGoverning the image of the city \t\nFrom Fordism to post-Fordism: reinventing cities in a context of economic transition \t\nPostmodernizing the capitalist city \t\nCelebrating the global city \t\nThe environmentalization of the urban experience \t\nConcluding reflections: the Eurocentrism of urban scholarship \t\nMaking Culture Work: The Rise of the Creative City \t\nIntroduction: urban development in a knowledge-based capitalism \t\nCreative cities: economies of diversity and discursive strategies in North America \t\nGovernmentalizing the cultural city in Europe and Asia \t\nConclusion: culture beyond representation \t\n\nPART TWO: POLITICS AS GOVERNMENT \t\nUrban Neoliberalism: Ascent and Crisis \t\nIntroduction: the irresistible rise of neoliberalism \t\nAt the origins of neoliberalism: the urban question in the 1970s \t\nThe 'new urban politics' \t\nThe practice of urban neoliberalism \t\nNeoliberalizing urban economic spaces \t\nThe expected unforeseen: the housing bubble and the global recession \t\nUrban Geopolitics: Legitimate Violence, Terrorism and Militarization \t\nIntroduction: the governmentalization of the urban experience \t\nThe politics of fear \t\nFrom fear to communitarian self-defence \t\nThe use of force as a threat: terrorism, urban marginality and the politics of pre-emption \t\nCities at war/the war against cities \t\nConclusions: the visible and the invisible in urban geopolitics \t\n\nPART THREE: POLITICS AS CONTESTATION \t\nUrban Justice: Struggles and Movements \t\nIntroduction: the ethical turn in democratic politics \t\nSocial justice in question: equality, recognition, domination \t\nRights to the city \t\nJustice movements: limits and potentialities \t\nJustice, globalization and the environment \t\nConclusion: the encounter between institutionalist and Marxist perspectives \t\nUrban Citizenship: Insurgencies and the Politics of Presence \t\nIntroduction: the crisis of national citizenship \t\nThe promises of urban citizenship \t\nThe globalization of migration and the multiple geographies of belonging \t\nDissidence or normalization: the quandaries of sexual citizenship \t\nConclusion: the 'common place' of citizenship \t\n\nConclusion: Beyond Post-Neoliberal Melancholia \t\n\nGlossary \t\n\nReferences

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