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Promises of the Political - Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment (Paperback)
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Promises of the Political - Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment (Paperback)
Series: The MIT Press
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The possibility of a new emancipatory and democratizing politics,
explored through the lens of recent urban insurgencies. In Promises
of the Political, Erik Swyngedouw explores whether progressive and
emancipatory politics is still possible in a post-political era.
Activists and scholars have developed the concept of
post-politicization to describe the process by which "the
political" is replaced by techno-managerial governance. If the
political domain has been systematically narrowed into a managerial
apparatus in which consensual governance prevails, where can we
find any possibility of a new democratic politics? Swyngedouw
examines this question through the lens of recent urban
insurgencies. In Zuccotti Park, Paternoster Square, Taksim Square,
Tahrir Square, Hong Kong, and elsewhere, he argues, insurgents have
gathered to choreograph new configurations of the democratic.
Swyngedouw grounds his argument in urban and ecological processes,
struggles, and conflicts through which post-politicization has
become institutionally entrenched. He casts "the city" and "nature"
as emblematic of the construction of post-democratic modes of
governance. He describes the disappearance of the urban polis into
the politics of neoliberal planetary urbanization; and he argues
that the political-managerial framing of "nature" and the
environment contributes to the formation of depoliticized
governance-most notably in the impotent politics of climate change.
Finally, he explores the possibilities for a reassertion of the
political, considering whether-after the squares are cleared, the
tents folded, and everyday life resumes-the urban uprisings of the
last several years signal a return of the political.
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