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The Politics of the Encounter : Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization /

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...

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Autor principal: Merrifield, Andy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (184 pages).
ISBN:9780820345819