Pollen - Brossura

Noon, Jeff

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1857023986 ISBN 13: 9781857023985

Casa editrice: Fourth Estate, 1995

Riassunto

In a strange, re-mixed future Manchester, a cloud of pollen descends and people are sneezing themselves to death. A small percentage of the population are immune. Two of them - shadow-cop Sibyl Jones and her wayward daughter, Boda - follow separate paths to the place where the pollen originates.

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This innovative volume offers a much needed update on urban politics in a globalized world. The path-breaking introduction by Davidson and Martin unpacks this complex domain by framing urban politics in three ways: occurring within the city, as a setting for other urban processes, and as a medium for contestation and resolution.  Within each section the contributors trouble these categories and demonstrate how the reach of urban politics exceeds the city through technological, social, cultural and political economy avenues of transition and mobility. Drawing upon Ranciere’s distinction between policing and politics as a fruitful avenue for identifying politics that promote social change rather than enforce social norms, Davidson and Martin, as well as contributors, chart new territory and produce thought-provoking research that move the field in a more critical direction.

 

(Setha M. Low 2013-09-01)

'A critical analysis of power and politics is essential to an understanding of contemporary urbanism. Informative and challenging, clear and sophisticated, Urban Politics: Critical Approaches encourages readers to grapple with the great diversity of analytical lenses that frame urban political research through detailed, engaging case studies. It provides an introduction to cutting-edge research that will be valued both by those new to the field and those intent on keeping up with its current debates.'

 

 

(Eugene McCann 2013-09-01)

Contenuti:

Thinking Critically about Urban Politics - Mark Davidson and Deborah Martin
PART ONE: CITY AS SETTING
The Neighbourhood as a Place for (Urban) Politics - Katherine Hankins and Deborah Martin
Splintered Governance: Urban Politics in the Twenty First Century - Kevin Ward
Ruthless: The Foreclosure of American Urban Politics - Elvin Wyly and Kathe Newman
PART TWO: CITY AS MEDIUM
Policing the City - Kurt Iveson
Mayors and the Representation of Urban Politics - Donald McNeill
Making Urban Politics Go Away: The Role of Legally Mandated Planning Processes in Occluding City Power - John Carr
PART THREE: CITY AS COMMUNITY
Queering the City: Sexual Citizenship in Creative City Singapore - Natalie Oswin
Making Space in the Multicultural City: Immigrant Settlements, Neighbourhoods and Urban Politics - Jamie Winders
The Embedded Politics of Entrepreneurs - Susan Hanson
Is Class Relevant to Urban Politics? - Mark Davidson
The Urban Imaginary of Nature: Cities in American Environmental Politics - Matthew Huber
Urban Politics as Parallax - Deborah Martin and Mark Davidson

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• Editore: Fourth Estate
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1857023986
• ISBN 13: 9781857023985
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336