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Monstrous Politics - Geography, Rights, and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City (Hardcover)
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Monstrous Politics - Geography, Rights, and the Urban Revolution in Mexico City (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Mexican Studies
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The birth of the world's great megacities is the surest and
starkest harbinger of the "urban age" inaugurated in the twentieth
century. As the world's urban population achieves majority for the
first time in recorded history, theories proliferate on the nature
of urban politics, including the shape and quality of urban
democracy, the role of urban social and political movements, and
the prospects for progressive and emancipatory change from the
corridors of powerful states to the routinized rhythms of everyday
life. At stake are both the ways in which the rapidly changing
urban world is understood and the urban futures being negotiated by
the governments and populations struggling to contend with these
changes and forge a place in contemporary cities. Transdisciplinary
by design, Monstrous Politics first moves historically through
Mexico City's turbulent twentieth century, driven centrally by the
contentious imbrication of the Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI) and its capital city. Participant observation, expert
interviews, and archival materials demonstrate the shifting
strategies and alliances of recent decades, provide the reader with
a sense of the texture of contemporary political life in the city
during a time of unprecedented change, and locate these dynamics
within the history and geography of twentieth-century urbanization
and political revolution. Substantive ethnographic chapters trace
the emergence and decline of the political language of "the right
to the city," the establishment and contestation of a
"postpolitical" governance regime, and the culmination of a century
of urban politics in the processes of "political reform" by which
Mexico City finally wrested back significant political autonomy and
local democracy from the federal state. A four-fold transection of
the revolutionary structure of feeling that pervades the city in
this historic moment illustrates the complex and contradictory
sentiments, appraisals, and motivations through which contemporary
politics are understood and enacted. Drawing on theories of social
revolution that embrace complexity, and espousing a methodology
that foregrounds the everyday nature of politics, Monstrous
Politics develops an understanding of revolutionary urban politics
at once contextually nuanced and conceptually expansive, and thus
better able to address the realities of politics in the "urban age"
even beyond Mexico City.
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