The Promise of the City: Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social ThoughtUniversity of California Press, 3 dec 2000 - 244 pagina's The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, he says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented not by the image of bounded physical spaces but rather by overlapping and shifting boundaries. And third, the macro forces shaping urban society include bureaucratic and governmental interventions not captured by a purely economic paradigm. Tajbakhsh examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. He shows why the answers offered by Marxian urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions such as poststructuralism, feminism, Habermasian Critical Theory, and pragmatism can help us better understand the challenges facing contemporary cities. |
Inhoudsopgave
35 | |
Beyond the Functionalist Bias in Urban Theory | 72 |
Toward the Historicity and Contingency of Identity | 113 |
Difference Democracy and the City | 162 |
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actors American analysis articulation assumptions autonomy Blackwell Cambridge capital capitalist Castells Castells's Chantal Mouffe chapter City Trenches class identity class struggle collective action concept conflict consciousness constituted context contingency contradictions critical urban critique cultural deconstruction dimensions discourse distinction economic elements Erik Swyngedouw Ernesto Laclau essentialist ethnic everyday example forms framework gender groups Harvey Harvey's hegemony historical housing hybridity Ibid idea iden individual institutions interpretation Ira Katznelson Jacques Derrida Jürgen Habermas labor power Laclau lifeworld linking logic Manuel Castells Marx Marx's Marxian class Marxian urban theory Marxism meaning Michael Peter Smith modern Mouffe neighborhood notion objective organization overdetermined Oxford patterns perspective postmodern problem processes production relationship social theory socialist society spatial struc structure and agency theoretical tion tities trans unity University Press Urban Experience urban identities urban political Urban Question urban social movements Urban Sociology urban space women workers workplace York
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Pagina v - other scene” within us. My discontent in living with the other—my strangeness, his strangeness—rests on the perturbed logic that governs this strange bundle of drive and language, of nature and symbol, constituted by the unconscious, always already shaped by the other. It is through unraveling transference—the major dynamics of
Pagina v - of love/hatred for the other, of the foreign component of our psyche—that, on the basis of the other, I become reconciled with my own otherness-foreignness, that I play on it and live by it.
Pagina 16 - American urban politics has been governed by boundaries and rules that stress ethnicity, race and territoriality, rather than class and that emphasize the distribution of goods and services, while excluding questions of production or workplace relations. The centerpiece of these rules has been the radical separation in people's consciousness, speech, and activity of the politics of work from the politics of community.
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