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Table of Contents -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Defining the Urban -- Defining the Contours of an Alternative Field of Urban Political Studies -- Organization of the Book -- Notes -- 1: Where are the Global Urban Politics? -- Where are the Urban Politics? From Municipalism to a New Political Ontology -- Where are Politics? Urban Life is Political Life -- Where is the Global in Urban Politics? Uneven Connections and Power Relations -- Informalization of the State -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 2: Global Urban Social Movements -- What are Global Urban Social Movements? -- Why and How Do We Become Politically Engaged? Discordant Moments, Mobility Practices and Continuity with Everyday Life -- Emerging Forms of Urban Political Mobilization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3: Global Diversity Politics -- Cities as 'Difference Machines': From Managing Diversity In Cities to Difference as Constitutive of Urbanity -- The Routes of Undocumented Immigrants, The Neighbour and the Identity Card -- The Smuggling Routes of Socio-Economic Crisis, Patriarchy and Urbanity -- Rethinking Citizenship -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4: Global Environmental Politics -- Local Environmental Conflicts: Engaging Various Conceptions of Time -- Global Environmental Politics: Articulating Metabolic Flows at Various Speeds and Scales -- A Changing Conception of Time Affecting the Political Process -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5: Global Urban Security Politics -- Urban Nightmares: Home Security and Alien Invasions -- Affective Micro-Politics and Re-emerging Forms of Political Action -- Conclusion -- Note -- Global Urban Politics and the Informalization of the State -- Critical Urban Studies: Pragmatism between Postcolonialism and Structuralism

Previously published as a special issue of Policy Studies, this volume demonstrates the vitality of the field of urban politics and presents future challenges for urban political research in the years ahead.If it does not already, the population of cities will very soon make up more than half the global population. As the global urban population continues to expand, the challenges facing urban politics grow with it. How do we understand the relationship between politics and urban policy? What are the political challenges facing citizens and politicians in a radically unequal

AbstractDespite the turn to relational vocabularies in urban theory, most work on urban politics acknowledging the importance of media has tended to reproduce a centred image of 'the media' and a functionalist account of mediation. This essay suggests, by contrast, that media might be understood more phenomenologically, as those technologies embedded in the dispersed practices of urban life, and as assemblages of integrative practices (i.e. 'the media'), both of which identify and subject to action a range of issues that are problematized as 'urban'. Such a focus on media‐in‐practices is an important shift in perspective for research hoping to bring together the shared political concerns of urban and media studies, and to take advantage of the converging spatial imaginations and reconfigured understandings of mediation emerging across both fields.Résumé Même si la théorie urbaine a adopté une terminologie du relationnel, la plupart des travaux de politique urbaine qui admettent l'importance des médias reproduisent plutôt une image centrifuge des 'médias' et une explication fonctionnaliste de la médiation. Ce texte suggère a contrario que l'on peut appréhender les médias sur un plan plus phénoménologique, en les considérant comme les technologies intégrées aux pratiques dispersées de la vie urbaine et comme des combinaisons de pratiques permettant l'agrégation (autrement dit, des 'médias'), les deux aspects définissant, et exposant à une action, toute une série de problèmes qualifiés d'urbains. Un tel intérêt pour 'les médias dans leurs pratiques' constitue un important revirement de point de vue pour les recherches qui espèrent réunir les préoccupations politiques communes des études urbaines et des études sur les médias, tout en exploitant la convergence des imaginaires spatiaux et les reformulations de la médiation qui apparaissent dans les deux domaines.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974