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In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre's reputation has
catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal
to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze,
Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies,
geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of
space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global
urbanization. Lefebvre's massive body of work has generated two
main schools of thought: one that is political economic, and
another that is more culturally oriented and poststructuralist in
tone. Space, Difference, and Everyday Life merges these two schools
of thought into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban
issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures.
What do struggles over pipelines in Canada, housing estates in
France, and shantytowns in Martinique have in common? In Urban
Revolutions, Stefan Kipfer shows how these struggles force us to
understand the (neo-)colonial aspects of capitalist urbanization in
a comparatively and historically nuanced fashion. In so doing, he
demonstrates that urban research can offer a rich, if uneven,
terrain upon which to develop the relationship between Marxist and
anti-colonial intellectual traditions. After a detailed dialogue
between Henri Lefebvre and Frantz Fanon, Kipfer engages creole
literature in the French Antilles, Indigenous radicalism in North
America and political anti-racism in mainland France.
In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre's reputation has
catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal
to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze,
Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies,
geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of
space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global
urbanization. Lefebvre's massive body of work has generated two
main schools of thought: one that is political economic, and
another that is more culturally oriented and poststructuralist in
tone. Space, Difference, and Everyday Life merges these two schools
of thought into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban
issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures.
The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed
beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have
experienced, in Edward Soja's terms, "an epochal shift in the
nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the
beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it."
Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our
understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative
comparative project that engages with Anglo-American, French, and
German literatures on the subject of regional governance. It
expands the comparative angle from issues of economic competiveness
and social cohesion to topical and relevant fields such as housing
and transportation, and it expands comparative work on municipal
governance to the regional scale. With contributions from
established and emerging international scholars of urban and
regional governance, the volume covers conceptual topics and case
studies that contrast the experience of a range of Canadian
metropolitan regions with a strong selection of European regions.
It starts from assumptions of limited conversion among regions
across the Atlantic but is keenly aware of the remarkable
differences in urban regions' path dependencies in which the larger
processes of globalization and neo-liberalization are situated and
materialized.
With the aim of widening the scope of Marxist theory, Henri
Lefebvre finished Dialectical Materialism just before the beginning
of World War II and the Resistance movement against the Vichy
regime. As the culmination of Lefebvre's interwar activities, the
book highlights the tension-fraught relationship between Lefebvre
and the French Communist Party (PCF). For Lefebvre, unlike for the
PCF, Marxism was above all a dynamic movement of theory and
practice. Dialectical Materialism is an implicit response to Joseph
Stalin's Dialectical and Historical Materialism and an attempt to
show that the Stalinist understanding of the concept was dogmatic
and oversimplified. This edition contains a new introduction by
Stefan Kipfer, explaining the book's contemporary ramifications in
the ever-expanding reach of the urban in the twentieth-century
Western world.
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