Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and Political Science, more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space.
Autorentext
Dr. Dan Webb has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta and is an occasional member of the avant-garde academic circle known as the "Edmonton School." He is an independent scholar, author, and aspiring documentary film-maker based in Port Alberni, BC. When he's not reading iconoclastic leftist political theory, he's most likely surfing off the west coast of Vancouver Island or watching Lars Von Trier movies with his wife, Lisa.
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Introduction
1. Validating the City in Political Theory
2. Post-Politics and the Ethical Turn in Political Theory
3. Ethics as a Symptom of Late Capitalism
4. The Open City, or the Ethical Turn in Critical Urban Studies
5. Gentrification and the Dromocratic City
6. Common Property and the Politicization of Urban Space
7. Immanent Critique and Disavowing the Urban Political
Conclusion