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Swyngedouw, Erik

Promises of the political : insurgent cities in a post-political environment / Erik Swyngedouw - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2018 - xxii, 209 pages ; 23 cm

Introduction : promises of the political --
Part I: Post-democracy : thinking (post- )politicization --
The Janus face of governance-beyond-the-state --
Interrogating post-democratization : post politicization as techno-mnagerial governance --
Theorizing the political difference : "politics" and "the political" --
Part II: Practices of post-politicization --
Post-politicizing the environment : "ecology as the new opium for the masses" --
Hotting up : climate change as post-politicizing populism --
Urbanization and environmental futures : politicizing urban political ecologies --
Part III: Specters of the political --
Insurgent architects, radical cities, and the spectral return of the political --
Exploring the idea of emancipatory geographies for the 21st century.

ISBN: 9780262535656

Publisher. No.: Technical Bureau India Pvt. Ltd. :E/261, Shastri Nagar Delhi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Social Sciences
Communities
Urban ecology (Sociology) -- History -- 21st century.
Radicalism -- History -- 21st century.
Political participation.
Populism.

Dewey Class. No.: 307.76 SWY