Title & Author:

Urban politics now : re-imagining democracy in the neoliberal city / edited by BAVO ; [translation: Nicholas Lakides and others].

Publication:

Rotterdam : NAi Publishers ; New York, NY : Available in North, South and Central America through D.A.P., ©2007.

Description:

239 pages ; 23 cm

Series:

Reflect ; #06

Notes:
"This book is an offspring of the conference 'Psychoanalysis, Urban Theory, and the City of Late-Capitalism' organized by BAVO and Lorenzo Chiesa that took place in the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht on 18-20 November 2005"--Page 11
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Who's afraid of urban politics / BAVO [Gideon Boie and Matthias Pauwels] -- Some politically incorrect reflections on urban violence in Paris and New Orleans and related matters / Slovoj Žižek -- Revanchist city, revanchist planet / Neil Smith -- The uses of deprivation in the neoliberal city / Guy Baeten -- The post-political city / Erik Swyngedouw -- Postmetropolitan psychasthenia: a spatioanalysis / Edward W. Soja -- Global cities and anti-globalist resistance / Dieter Lesage -- Amsterdam, the city as a business / Merijn Oudenampsen -- False freedom: the construction of space in late capitalism / Friedrich von Borries and Matthias Böttger -- Antinomies of space : from the representation of politics to a topology of the political / Yannis Stavrakakis -- The city at the 'end of history' / Juliet Flower MacCannell -- Barcode humans: on the fabrication of consumers in the super-market society / Henk van Houtum and Bas Spierings -- Pervercity / Bülent Diken and Carsten Bagge Laustsen -- Democracy & the neoliberal city: the Dutch case / BAVO.

Summary:

"Urban Politics Now offers an in-depth analysis of the many symptoms that plague the neoliberal city, such as gratuitous violence, zero tolerance, consumptive hedonism and socio-economic segregation. It also proposes ways to re-establish the city as the driving force behind a democratic politics with an emancipatory agenda." "While all contributions are global in scope, focus lies on recent urban developments in Western Europe and the Netherlands in particular."--Jacket

Resources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

9789056626167 (pbk.)
9056626167 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Europe History 21st century Congresses.
Sociology, Urban Europe Congresses.
Urban policy Europe Congresses.
Metropolitan government Europe Congresses.
Neoliberalism Europe Congresses.
Villes Europe Histoire 21e siècle Congrès.
Sociologie urbaine Europe Congrès.
Politique urbaine Europe Congrès.
Néo-libéralisme Europe Congrès.
Cities and towns.
Metropolitan government.
Neoliberalism.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban policy.
Steden.
Stadssociologie.
Lokale politiek.
Europe.

Form/genre:

Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Added entries:

Lakides, Nicholas.
BAVO.
Jan van Eyck Akademie.
Reflect (Rotterdam, Netherlands) ; #06.

Re-imagining democracy in the neoliberal city

Holdings:

Location: Library main 255499
Call No.: BIB 185695
Status: Available