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 transformation and recomposition. The volume deftly argues that the urban political horizon of late neoliberalism is ambivalent; marked by many progressive mobilizations for equality and justice, but also by regressive forces of austerity, exploitation, and domination.

List 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.

About the author

Theresa Enright is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her primary research interests are in the fields of critical theory, metropolitan politics, and urban political economy. 
Ugo Rossi is Senior Researcher in Political and Economic Geography at the Università di Torino, Italy. He is the author (with A. Vanolo) of Urban Political Geographies: A Global Perspective (2012) and Cities in Global Capitalism (2017).
Contributors: 
Yousuf Al-Bulushi, assistant professor of urban peace studies in the Center for Geographies of Justice at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Niccolò Cuppini, research fellow in Social Research at SUPSI (Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana) in Switzerland.
Mark Davidson, associate professor of geography at Clark University, USA.
Iris Dzudzek, post-doctoral researcher and teacher in human geography at Goethe-University Frankfurt A. M, Germany.
Theresa Enright, assistant professor of political science and senior fellow at the Global Cities Institute at the University of Toronto, Canada.
Crispian Fuller, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography and Planning at Cardiff University, Wales (UK). 
Kurt Iveson, associate professor of urban geography at the University of Sydney, Australia. 
Felipe Magalhães, professor of economic geography at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Colin McFarlane, professor in Urban Geography at Durham University, UK.
Walter Nicholls, associate professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, USA.
Joe Penny, PhD candidate at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, UK.
Matteo Rizzo, senior lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London, UK.
Ugo Rossi, university researcher in Political and Economic Geography at the Università di Torino, Italy. 
Jonathan Silver, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Urban Institute, University of Sheffield, UK.
Justus Uitermark, associate professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Anne Vogelpohl, postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Geography at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Summary

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 transformation and recomposition. The volume deftly argues that the urban political horizon of late neoliberalism is ambivalent; marked by many progressive mobilizations for equality and justice, but also by regressive forces of austerity, exploitation, and domination.

Product details

• Assisted by: Theres Enright (Editor), Theresa Enright (Editor), Rossi (Editor), Rossi (Editor), Ugo Rossi (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783319645339
• ISBN: 978-3-31-964533-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 217 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Illustrations: IX, 272 p.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Urban and regional sociology