Description: How Cities Can Transform Democracy, Paperback by Beveridge, Ross; Koch, Philippe, ISBN 1509545999, ISBN-13 9781509545995, Brand New, Free shipping in the US We live in an urban age. It is well-known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What implications does this have for democracy? This incisiv argues that urbanization undermines established certainties of nation-state politics and calls for a profound rethinking of democracy as a project. Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch provide a novel way of seeing democracy like a city, shifting scholarly and activist perspectives from institutions to practices, from jurisdictional scales to spaces of collective urban life, and from fixed communities to emergent political subjects. Through a discussion of examples from around the world, th shows that distinctly urban forms of collective self-rule are already apparent. The authors reclaim the 'city’ as a democratic idea in a context of urbanization, seeing it as instrumental to re-locate democracy in the everyday lives of urbanites. Original and hopeful, How Cities Can Transform Democracy compels the reader to abandon conventional understandings of democracy and embrace new vocabularies and practices of democratic action in the struggles for our urban future.
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Book Title: How Cities Can Transform Democracy
Number of Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Name: How Cities Can Transform Democracy
Language: English
Publisher: Polity Press
Subject: Sociology / Urban
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2022
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Author: Philippe Koch, Ross Beveridge
Item Length: 8.4 in
Subject Area: Social Science
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
