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ISBN 13 : 9781780264691
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Book Rating : 4.2/5 (646 download)
Download or read book Fearless Cities written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ada Colau
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ISBN 13 : 9781780265032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Fearless Cities written by Ada Colau and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to winning back our towns and cities from below by municipalist platform Barcelona en Comu. In a world in which fear and insecurity are being twisted into hate, and inequalities, xenophobia and authoritarianism are on the rise, a renewed municipalist movement is standing up to defend human rights, radical democracy and the common good.
Author : Robert G. Hollands
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1529233151
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City written by Robert G. Hollands and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-07-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A buoyant, creative economy can be seen as the saviour of many cities, but behind such ‘urban makeovers’ lie serious problems such as widening inequalities, job precarity, gentrification and environmental issues. In light of the pandemic and climate crisis, how well are city economies, based largely on culture, nightlife and tourism, meeting basic societal needs? Blending lively case studies of alternative cultural practices and spaces with broader theoretical debates, this book explores the opportunities for a more just and sustainable urban future.
Author : Kali Akuno
Publisher : PM Press
ISBN 13 : 1629639524
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Jackson Rising Redux written by Kali Akuno and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with the highest percentage of Black people and a history of vicious racial terror. Black resistance at a time of global health, economic, and climate crisis is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in this new and revised collection of essays. Cooperation Jackson, founded in 2014 in Mississippi’s capital to develop an economically uplifting democratic “solidarity economy,” is anchored by a network of worker-owned, self-managed cooperative enterprises. The organization developed in the context of the historic election of radical Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, lifetime human rights attorney. Subsequent to Lumumba’s passing less than one year after assuming office, the network developed projects both inside and outside of the formal political arena. In 2020, Cooperation Jackson became the center for national and international coalition efforts, bringing together progressive peoples from diverse trade union, youth, church, and cultural movements. This long-anticipated anthology details the foundations behind those successful campaigns. It unveils new and ongoing strategies and methods being pursued by the movement for grassroots-centered Black community control and self-determination, inspiring partnership and emulation across the globe.
Author : Ellie Harrison
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912387646
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (123 download)
Download or read book The Glasgow Effect written by Ellie Harrison and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would your career, social life, family ties, carbon footprint and mental health be affected if you could not leave the city where you live? Artist Ellie Harrison sparked a fast-and-furious debate about class, capitalism, art, education and much more, when news of her year-long project The Glasgow Effect went viral at the start of 2016. Named after the term used to describe Glasgow's mysteriously poor public health and funded to the tune of £15,000 by Creative Scotland, this controversial 'durational performance' centred on a simple proposition – that the artist would refuse to travel beyond Glasgow's city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for a whole calendar year.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004514511
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Contending Global Apartheid written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contending Global Apartheid: Transversal Solidarities and Politics of Possibility offers a collection of critical essays on human rights movements, sanctuary spaces, and the emplacement of antiracist conviviality in cities across North and South America, Europe and Africa.
Author : Brendan F.D. Barrett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000280497
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Ethical Cities written by Brendan F.D. Barrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining elements of sustainable and resilient cities agendas, together with those from social justice studies, and incorporating concerns about good governance, transparency and accountability, the book presents a coherent conceptual framework for the ethical city, in which to embed existing and new activities within cities so as to guide local action. The authors’ observations are derived from city-specific surveys and urban case studies. These reveal how progressive cities are promoting a diverse range of ethically informed approaches to urbanism, such as community wealth building, basic income initiatives, participatory budgeting and citizen assemblies. The text argues that the ethical city is a logical next step for critical urbanism in the era of late capitalism, characterised by divisive politics, burgeoning inequality, widespread technology-induced disruptions to every aspect of modern life and existential threats posed by climate change, sustainability imperatives and pandemics. Engaging with their communities in meaningful ways and promoting positive transformative change, ethical cities are well placed to deliver liveable and sustainable places for all, rather than only for wealthy elites. Likewise, the aftermath of shocks such as the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic reveals that cities that are not purposeful in addressing inequalities, social problems, unsustainability and corruption face deepening difficulties. Readers from across physical and social sciences, humanities and arts, as well as across policy, business and civil society, will find that the application of ethical principles is key to the pursuit of socially inclusive urban futures and the potential for cities and their communities to emerge from or, at least, ameliorate a diverse range of local, national and global challenges.
Author : Erika Arban
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192843273
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory written by Erika Arban and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city as an independent subject of theorisation and investigation is an underexamined area of constitutional law. Although in recent years scholars have started to explore the legal dimension and place of urban areas, the study of cities as constitutional subjects remains very new, with a solid theoretical foundation yet to be established. Against this backdrop of general under-theorisation of cities in constitutional law and federalism, Cities in Federal Constitutional Theory seeks to offer a fresh theoretical account of cities as federalism subjects, exploring the increased importance they have acquired from political, economic, socio-cultural, and demographic perspectives. This volume directly addresses the relationship between cities, federalism, and localism (or subsidiarity), and responds to concerns about the scarcity of innovative theoretical discussion on the topic, while at the same time redefining accepted concepts like subsidiarity. Bringing together theoretical reflections on the city from established scholars, this edited collection significantly enriches the field of federal constitutional theory.
Author : Jonathan S. Blake
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 150363907X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Children of a Modest Star written by Jonathan S. Blake and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences. Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful pollutants cross the globe unimpeded by national borders. While the consequences of these flows range across scales, from the planetary to the local, the authority and resources to manage them are concentrated mainly at one level: the nation-state. This profound mismatch between the scale of planetary challenges and the institutions tasked with governing them is leading to cascading systemic failures. In the groundbreaking Children of a Modest Star, Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman not only challenge dominant ways of thinking about humanity's relationship to the planet and the political forms that presently govern it, but also present a new, innovative framework that corresponds to our inherently planetary condition. Drawing on intellectual history, political philosophy, and the holistic findings of Earth system science, Blake and Gilman argue that it is essential to reimagine our governing institutions in light of the fact that we can only thrive if the multi-species ecosystems we inhabit are also flourishing. Aware of the interlocking challenges we face, it is no longer adequate merely to critique our existing systems or the modernist assumptions that helped create them. Blake and Gilman propose a bold, original architecture for global governance—what they call planetary subsidiarity—designed to enable the enduring habitability of the Earth for humans and non-humans alike. Children of a Modest Star offers a clear-eyed and urgent vision for constructing a system capable of stabilizing a planet in crisis.
Author : Elisabetta Mocca
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 152921632X
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Cities in Search of Freedom written by Elisabetta Mocca and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the central state's weakening authority over cities bridges political geography and politics, giving a new perspective to students and researchers in urban studies, geography and political science.
Author : Linda Peake
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119789176
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)
Download or read book A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time written by Linda Peake and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does a feminist urban theory look like for the twenty first century? This book puts knowledges of feminist urban scholars, feminist scholars of social reproduction, and other urban theorists into conversation to propose an approach to the urban that recognises social reproduction both as foundational to urban transformations and as a methodological entry-point for urban studies. Offers an approach feminist urban theory that remains intentionally cautious of universal uses of social reproduction theory, instead focusing analytical attention on historical contingency and social difference Eleven chapters that collectively address distinct elements of the contemporary crisis in social reproduction and the urban through the lenses of infrastructure and subjectivity formation as well as through feminist efforts to decolonize urban knowledge production Deepens understandings of how people shape and reshape the spatial forms of their everyday lives, furthering understandings of the 'infinite variety' of the urban Essential reading for academics, researchers and scholars within urban studies, human geography, gender and sexuality studies, and sociology
Author : Henry Tam
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447361105
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Tomorrow’s Communities written by Henry Tam and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets out how people’s lives can be positively transformed through diverse forms of community involvement. It shows how communities can become more collaborative and resilient in dealing with the problems they face and provides a guide to what a holistic policy agenda for community-based transformation should encompass.
Author : Madeleine Pill
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030726215
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Governing Cities written by Madeleine Pill and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result. This textbook introduces ideas, theories, concepts and examples to help us understand the political and policy challenges of governing cities, centred on the principal challenge of how to make our cities more equitable. It poses critical questions – about how cities are governed, by whom, according to what values, and for whom – and draws from a wide range of urban scholarship. The ‘how’ covers urban politics and the policy instruments which result. The ‘by whom’ addresses power relations within and beyond the city and the tensions between different priorities and values. The ‘for whom’ centres equity and the role of citizens and collective action in how we are governed. In addressing these questions, the book provides an overview of the core theories of urban politics and governance, thinks about what happens at different scales, and examines new forms of citizen activism which herald alternatives for cities. It is a unique introduction to students, policymakers and practitioners who want to understand and seek to improve urban politics and policy.
Author : Ross Beveridge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509546006
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book How Cities Can Transform Democracy written by Ross Beveridge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 incisive book argues that urbanization undermines the established certainties of nation-state politics and calls for a profound rethinking of democracy. A novel way of seeing democracy like a city is presented, shifting scholarly and activist perspectives from institutions to practices, from jurisdictional scales to spaces of urban collective life, and from fixed communities to emergent political subjects. Through a discussion of examples from around the world, the book 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 relocating 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.
Author : Leo Panitch
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583676716
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Democracy written by Leo Panitch and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, intellectuals have argued that, with the triumph of capitalist, liberal democracy, the Western World has reached “the end of history.” Recently, however, there has been a rise of authoritarian politics in many countries. Concepts of post-democracy, anti-politics, and the like are gaining currency in theoretical and political debate. Now that capitalist democracies are facing seismic and systemic challenges, it becomes increasingly important to investigate not only the inherent antagonism between liberalism and the democratic process, but also socialism. Is socialism an enemy of democracy? Could socialism develop, expand, even enhance democracy? While this volume seeks a reappraisal of existing liberal democracy today, its main goal is to help lay the foundation for new visions and practices in developing a real socialist democracy. Amid the contradictions of neoliberal capitalism today, the responsibility to sort out the relationship between socialism and democracy has never been greater. No revival of socialist politics in the twenty-first century can occur without founding new democratic institutions and practices.
Author : Pellizzoni, Luigi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839100672
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics written by Pellizzoni, Luigi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely Handbook offers a comprehensive outlook on global environmental politics, providing readers with an up-to-date view of a field of ever increasing academic and public significance. Its critical perspective interrogates what is taken for granted in current institutions and social and power relations, highlighting the issues preventing meaningful change in the relationship between human societies and their biophysical underpinnings. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.
Author : Laikwan Pang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472037684
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Appearing Demos written by Laikwan Pang and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-02-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the waves of Occupy movements gradually recede, we soon forget the political hope and passions these events have offered. Instead, we are increasingly entrenched in the simplified dichotomies of Left and Right, us and them, hating others and victimizing oneself. Studying Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, which might be the largest Occupy movement in recent years, The Appearing Demos urges us to re-commit to democracy at a time when democracy is failing on many fronts and in different parts of the world. The 79-day-long Hong Kong Umbrella Movement occupied major streets in the busiest parts of the city, creating tremendous inconvenience to this city famous for capitalist order and efficiency. It was also a peaceful collective effort of appearance, and it was as much a political event as a cultural one. The urge for expressing an independent cultural identity underlined both the Occupy movement and the remarkably rich cultural expressions it generated. While understanding the specificity of Hong Kong’s situations, The Appearing Demos also comments on some global predicaments we are facing in the midst of neoliberalism and populism. It directs our attention from state-based sovereignty to city-based democracy, and emphasizes the importance of participation and cohabitation. The book also examines how the ideas of Hannah Arendt are useful to those happenings much beyond the political circumstances that gave rise to her theorization. The book pays particular attention to the actual intersubjective experiences during the protest. These experiences are local, fragile, and sometimes inarticulable, therefore resisting rationality and debates, but they define the fullness of any individual, and they also make politics possible. Using the Umbrella Movement as an example, this book examines the “freed” political agents who constantly take others into consideration in order to guarantee the political realm as a place without coercion and discrimination. In doing so, Pang Laikwan demonstrates how politics means neither to rule nor to be ruled, and these movements should be defined by hope, not by goals.
