The Politics of the Encounter - Urban Theory and Protest Under Planetary Urbanization

Informationen zum Autor Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar based in the United Kingdom and France. His books include Magical Marxism: Subversive Politics and the Imagination! The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World! Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City! and Dialectical Urbanism. Klappentext This is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city! writes Andy Merrifield! remains ""important! virtually and materially! for progressive politics."" And yet! he notes! more than forty years have passed since Henri Lefebvre advanced the powerful ideas that still undergird much of our thinking about urbanisation. Merrifield rethinks the city in light of the vast changes to our planet since 1970! when Lefebvre's Urban Revolution was first published. Zusammenfassung The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle! expanding upon the ideas of Henri Lefebvre that undergird much of our thinking about urbanization and urban society.

Product details

• Authors: Andy Merrifield
• Assisted by: Deborah Cowen (Editor), Melissa Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2013
• EAN: 9780820345307
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4530-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Geographies of Justice and Soc; Geographies of Justice and Soc; Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education