The Urban Political: Ambivalent Spaces of Late Neoliberalism [Hardcover]

This book examines the political and economic trajectories of cities following the 2008 financial crisis. The authors claim that in this erawhich they dub late neoliberalism urban spaces, institutions, subjectivities, and organizational forms are undergoing processes of radical transformation and recomposition. The volume deftly argues that the urban political horizon of late neoliberalism is ambivalent; marked by many progressive mobilizations for equality and justice, but also by regressive forces of austerity, exploitation, and domination.

1. Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism

Part I: Theorizing the Urban Political

2.??Presupposing Democracy: Placing Politics in the Urban?

3.?Desiring the Common in the Post-crisis Metropolis: Insurgencies, Contradictions, Appropriations

?4.?The Globalized City as a Locus of the Political: Logistical Urbanization, Genealogical Insights, Contemporary Aporias

Part II: Materializing the Urban Political

5.?Where is the Organisation in the Urban Political?

6, ?Neoliberalizing Infrastructure and its Discontents: The Bus Rapid Transit Project in Dar es Salaam? ? ? ? ??

?7.?Infrastructure, Seeing Sanitation and the Urban Political in an era of Late Neoliberalism

8. The Cooperative or Cop-out Council? Urban Politics at a time of Austerity Local

9. ?The Politics of Consultation in Urban Development and its Encounters with Local Administration

10.?Precarity, Surplus, and the Urban Political: Shack Life in South Africa

Part IV: Re-politicizing the Urban Political&l£#