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Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and "the Political" - Desire and Drive in the City (Paperback)
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Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and "the Political" - Desire and Drive in the City (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
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Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of
Political Theory (and political science, more broadly): the urban
as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban
space. Because the city and urban space is so prominent in other
critical disciplines, most notably, geography and sociology, a
driving question of the book is: what kind of distinct contribution
can political theory make to the already existing critical urban
literature? The answer is to be found in what Webb calls the
"properly political" approach to understanding political conflict
as developed in the work of thinkers like Chantal Mouffe, Jodi
Dean, and Slavoj Zizek. This "properly political" analysis is
contrasted with and a curative to the predominant "ethical" or
"post-political" understanding of the urban found in so much of the
geographical and sociological critical urban theory literature. In
order to illustrate this primary theoretical argument of the book,
Webb suggests that "common property" is the most useful category
for conceiving the city as a site of the "properly political." When
the city and urban space are framed within this theoretical
framework, critical urbanists are provided a powerful tool for
understanding urban political struggles, in particular,
anti-gentrification movements in the inner city.
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