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The politics of the encounter : urban theory and protest under planetary urbanization / Andy Merrifield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merrifield, Andy.
- Series:
- Geographies of justice and social transformation.
- Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Urban.
- Urbanization.
- Social justice.
- Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991.
- Lefebvre, Henri.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains ""important, virtually and materially, for progressive politics."" And yet, he notes, more than forty years have passed since Henri Lefebvre advanced the powerful ideas that still undergird much of our thinking about urbanization and urban society. Merrifield rethinks the city in light of the vast changes to our planet since 1970, when Lefebvre's seminal Urban Revolution was first published. At the same time, he expand
- Contents:
- The final frontier: planetary urbanization
- Here comes everybody: problematizing the right to the city
- The urban consolidates: centrality and citizenship
- The politics of the encounter
- The planetary urbanization of non-work
- Revolutionary rehearsals?
- Imaginary pragmatics and the enigma of revolt.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299464230
- 1299464238
- 9780820345819
- 0820345814
- OCLC:
- 839684423
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