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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Anders Blok , Ignacio FariasPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.385kg ISBN: 9781138813410ISBN 10: 1138813419 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 21 January 2016 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 1. Introducing urban cosmopolitics: Multiplicity and the search for a common world Ignacio Farías & Anders Blok Section 1: Agencements 2. Saving (in) a common world: Cosmopolitical instances from a low budget urbanities perspective Birke Otto & Alexa Färber 3. Infrastructural becoming: sanitation, cosmopolitics and the (un)making of urban life at the margins Michele Lancione & Colin McFarlane 4. Im/mutable im/mobiles: From the socio-materiality of cities towards a differential cosmopolitics Michael Guggenheim Section 2: Assemblies 5. Exploring urban controversies on retail diversity. An inquiry into the cosmopolitics of markets in the city Alexandre Mallard 6. Manifestations of the Market: Public Audiences, and the Cosmopolitics of Voice in Buenos Aires Nicholas D’Avella 7. The politics and aesthetics of assembling: (un)building the common in Hackney Wick, London Isaac Marrero-Guillamón 8. Matters of sense: pre-occupation in Madrid’s popular assemblies movement Adolfo Estalella & Alberto Corsín Jiménez Section 3: Atmospheres 9. The aesthetic composition of a common memory: Atmospheres of revalued urban ruins Hanna Katharina Göbel 10. The cosmopolitics of ‘niching’. Rendering the city habitable along infrastructures of mental health care Milena D. Bister, Martina Klausner & Jörg Niewöhner 11. Water and Air: Territories, tactics and the elemental textility of urban cosmopolitics Manuel Tironi & Nerea Calvillo Afterword: 12. Whose urban cosmos, which urban cosmopolitics? Assessing the route travelled and the one ahead Anders Blok & Ignacio FaríasReviewsUrban Cosmopolitics offers a new way of thinking and doing urban politics. This theoretically bold and empirically rich collection shows that urban infrastructures and technologies are so much more than the supporting context for urban society and politics, they animate social life and activate political interest. Urban Cosmopolitics showcases the relevance of pragmatist and actor-network inspired approaches to understanding the most complex, multivariate, spatially extensive of socio-material assemblages - the city. It is a collection of essays that offers novel concepts for understanding the effects of urban technologies and expertise, as well as templates for alternative visions for assembling and enacting urban worlds. Jane M Jacobs, Head of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College and author of Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture The appearances of the urban are insufficient to knowing how to engage the sheer multiplicity of causation at work in how the urban takes place. Cities are full of relations among forces and things that have no concern for maintaining any identity and meaning whatsoever and go beyond any agenda. But as this collection of writings orchestrated by Blok and Farias demonstrate, we can more judiciously remake ourselves as urban in the ways in which we co-exist and co-create with forces and things we can only fractionally know. And this entails a politics distributed across different domains, devices, entities and experiments, which alters the imagination of the urban as that which aims for continuous human transformation. Through specific engagements with new forms of urban activism, infrastructure, economy, everyday practices, built environments and planning practices, Urban Cosmopolitics vitally demonstrates new ethical practices of recomposing a common world among the many forms of agency, objects, infrastructures and collectivities alongside us. AbdouMaliq Simone, author of City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads Urban Cosmopolitics offers a new way of thinking and doing urban politics. This theoretically bold and empirically rich collection shows that urban infrastructures and technologies are so much more than the supporting context for urban society and politics, they animate social life and activate political interest. Urban Cosmopolitics showcases the relevance of pragmatist and actor-network inspired approaches to understanding the most complex, multivariate, spatially extensive of socio-material assemblages - the city. It is a collection of essays that offers novel concepts for understanding the effects of urban technologies and expertise, as well as templates for alternative visions for assembling and enacting urban worlds. Jane M Jacobs, Head of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College and author of Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture The appearances of the urban are insufficient to knowing how to engage the sheer multiplicity of causation at work in how the urban takes place. Cities are full of relations among forces and things that have no concern for maintaining any identity and meaning whatsoever and go beyond any agenda. But as this collection of writings orchestrated by Blok and Farias demonstrate, we can more judiciously remake ourselves as urban in the ways in which we co-exist and co-create with forces and things we can only fractionally know. And this entails a politics distributed across different domains, devices, entities and experiments, which alters the imagination of the urban as that which aims for continuous human transformation. Through specific engagements with new forms of urban activism, infrastructure, economy, everyday practices, built environments and planning practices, Urban Cosmopolitics vitally demonstrates new ethical practices of recomposing a common world among the many forms of agency, objects, infrastructures and collectivities alongside us. AbdouMaliq Simone, author of City Life from Jakarta to Dakar: Movements at the Crossroads Author InformationAnders Blok is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and co-author of Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World (Routledge, 2011). Ignacio Farías is Assistant Professor in the Munich Center for Technology in Society and the Faculty of Architecture at the Technische Universität, München, Germany. He is co-editor of Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Changes Urban Studies (Routledge, 2009). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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