Global Urban Politics
In: Urban Futures Ser
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