The Urban Political

1. Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism
Theresa Enright, Ugo Rossi

Part I. Theorizing the Urban Political

2. Presupposing Democracy: Placing Politics in the Urban
Mark Davidson, Kurt Iveson

3. Desiring the Common in the Post-crisis Metropolis: Insurgencies, Contradictions, Appropriations
Theresa Enright, Ugo Rossi

4. The Globalized City as a Locus of the Political: Logistical Urbanization, Genealogical Insights, Contemporary Aporias
Niccolò Cuppini

Part II. Materializing the Urban Political

5. Where Is the ‘Organisation’ in the Urban Political?
Crispian Fuller

6. Neoliberalizing Infrastructure and Its Discontents: The Bus Rapid Transit Project in Dar es Salaam
Matteo Rizzo

7. Infrastructure, ‘Seeing Sanitation’ and the Urban Political in an Era of Late Neoliberalism
Colin McFarlane, Jonathan Silver

Part III. Governing the Urban Political

8. The ‘Cooperative’ or ‘Cop-Out’ Council? Urban Politics at a Time of Austerity Localism in London
Joe Penny

9. The Politics of Consultation in Urban Development and Its Encounters with Local Administration
Anne Vogelpohl

10. Precarity, Surplus, and the Urban Political: Shack Life in South Africa
Yousuf Al-Bulushi

Part IV. Re-politicizing the Urban Political

11. Voice or Noise? Spaces of Appearance and Political Subjectivity in the London Riots 2011
Iris Dzudzek

12. The Southern Urban Political in Transcalar Perspective: A View from the Squatter Movements of Belo Horizonte
Felipe N. C. Magalhães

13. Counter Publics and Counter Spaces
Walter Nicholls, Justus Uitermark

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Urban Studies/Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Governance and Government