Critical Urban Theory, Common Property, and “the Political”: Desire and Drive in the City

Author:   Dan Webb
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138735972


Pages:   198
Publication Date:   17 May 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Dan Webb
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138735972


ISBN 10:   1138735973
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   17 May 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Validating the City in Political Theory 2. Post-Politics and the Ethical Turn in Political Theory 3. Ethics as a Symptom of Late Capitalism 4. The Open City, or the Ethical Turn in Critical Urban Studies 5. Gentrification and the Dromocratic City 6. Common Property and the Politicization of Urban Space 7. Immanent Critique and Disavowing the Urban Political Conclusion

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"""In this extraordinary book, Lacanian Psychoanalysis meets political theory in the streets of the city. The necessity of a radical political theory of the urban is explored with exquisite clarity and unwavering commitment to progressive change. If there is any hope for a different and politicized urbanity, it begins to shimmer between the covers of Dan Webb’s book."" - Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, The University of Manchester ""Inner city gentrification is a violent form of exclusionary dispossession, visited upon the vunerable and precarious. Webb’s wonderful book urges progressive urban scholars to respond in kind"" - Nick Blomley, Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University."


In this extraordinary book, Lacanian Psychoanalysis meets political theory in the streets of the city. The necessity of a radical political theory of the urban is explored with exquisite clarity and unwavering commitment to progressive change. If there is any hope for a different and politicized urbanity, it begins to shimmer between the covers of Dan Webb's book. - Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, The University of Manchester Inner city gentrification is a violent form of exclusionary dispossession, visited upon the vunerable and precarious. Webb's wonderful book urges progressive urban scholars to respond in kind - Nick Blomley, Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University.


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"Dr. Dan Webb has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta and is an occasional member of the avant-garde academic circle known as the ""Edmonton School."" He is an independent scholar, author, and aspiring documentary film-maker based in Port Alberni, BC. When he’s not reading iconoclastic leftist political theory, he’s most likely surfing off the west coast of Vancouver Island or watching Lars Von Trier movies with his wife, Lisa."

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