Space, Politics and Aesthetics

Mustafa Dikeç is Professor at the Ecole d’urbanisme de Paris. He is the author of Badlands of the Republic: Space, Politics and Urban Policy (2007, Blackwell), and co-editor of Extending Hospitality: Giving Space, Taking Time (2009, Edinburgh University Press). He is currently working on a book on urban revolts, Urban Rage (Yale University Press), and completing a research project on the politics of time in nineteenth-century Paris.

• Acknowledgements; 1. Politics and the spatial imagination; 2. Politics of aesthetics; 3. Politics for beginners; 4. Politics in-common; 5. Politics for equals; 6. The sublime element in politics; Bibliography; Index

Mustafa Dikeç’s Space, Politics and Aesthetics is philosophically profound, politically astute and conceptually powerful. Articulating critical geography with a politics of aesthetics, the work crosses disciplinary boundaries and provides an innovative intervention into contemporary social theory.