TY - BOOK AU - Swyngedouw, Erik AU - Swyngedouw, Erik TI - Promises of the political: : insurgent cities in a post-political environment SN - 9780262535656 U1 - 307.76 SWY PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - : The MIT Press, KW - Social Sciences KW - Communities KW - Urban ecology (Sociology) -- History -- 21st century KW - Radicalism -- History -- 21st century KW - Political participation KW - Populism N1 - 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 ER -