Urban Political Geographies

Ugo Rossi is Professor of Economic and Political Geography at the Gran Sasso Science Institute university in L′Aquila, Italy

• Foreword: The Athenian Symptom by Ola Söderström Foreword: The Nine Lives of Neoliberalism by Jamie Peck Foreword: Politics Between the Lines by AbdouMaliq Simone IntroductionGlobalization and the Urban Experience The Triad of Urban Politics Overview of the Book′s StructurePART ONE: POLITICS AS REPRESENTATIONUrban Development and the Politics of Representation Introduction: towards a political economy of representation Governing the image of the city From Fordism to post-Fordism: reinventing cities in a context of economic transition Postmodernizing the capitalist city Celebrating the global city The environmentalization of the urban experience Concluding reflections: the Eurocentrism of urban scholarshipMaking Culture Work: The Rise of the Creative CityIntroduction: urban development in a knowledge-based capitalism Creative cities: economies of diversity and discursive strategies in North America Governmentalizing the cultural city in Europe and Asia Conclusion: culture beyond representationPART TWO: POLITICS AS GOVERNMENTUrban Neoliberalism: Ascent and CrisisIntroduction: the irresistible rise of neoliberalism At the origins of neoliberalism: the urban question in the 1970s The ′new urban politics′ The practice of urban neoliberalism Neoliberalizing urban economic spacesThe expected unforeseen: the housing bubble and the global recession Urban Geopolitics: Legitimate Violence, Terrorism and MilitarizationIntroduction: the governmentalization of the urban experience The politics of fear From fear to communitarian self-defence The use of force as a threat: terrorism, urban marginality and the politics of pre-emption Cities at war/the war against cities Conclusions: the visible and the invisible in urban geopoliticsPART THREE: POLITICS AS CONTESTATION Urban Justice: Struggles and MovementsIntroduction: the ethical turn in democratic politics Social justice in question: equality, recognition, domination Rights to the city Justice movements: limits and potentialities Justice, globalization and the environment Conclusion: the encounter between institutionalist and Marxist perspectivesUrban Citizenship: Insurgencies and the Politics of PresenceIntroduction: the crisis of national citizenship The promises of urban citizenship The globalization of migration and the multiple geographies of belonging Dissidence or normalization: the quandaries of sexual citizenship Conclusion: the ′common place′ of citizenshipConclusion: Beyond Post-Neoliberal MelancholiaGlossary

Ugo Rossi and Alberto Vanolo take us on a journey around the ascent and crisis of urban liberalism, providing a clear and highly readable analysis of key issues and debates in the field of urban political geography.