Urban Politics: Critical Approaches

摘要

Urban Politics does not delineate a distinct politics of the urban. Rather, it asks us to reconsider the object of our urban political analysis. Drawing on Zizek's conception of the 'parallax', the editors suggest an urban political discourse constituted by a multitude of perspectives which necessarily embrace a relational understanding of what we think of as urban and what we think of as political. Our focus is then to understand how a particular position is premised when assessing urban politics to identify the utility of different perspectives in which we view different urban political situations.