Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State (Urban Futures) - Hardcover

Boudreau, Julie-Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745685498 ISBN 13: 9780745685496

Publisher: Polity, 2016

Synopsis

Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State

In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions.

Organized thematically, the book examines urban social movements, diversity politics, environmental politics and security politics at a global level and argues that living in an urban world calls for a profound rethinking of how we act politically. Through ethnographic incursions into the worlds of youth activists, domestic workers, rioters, barrio bandits and peripheral villagers, among others, from Mexico City and Hanoi to Montreal and New York, the book makes a number of theoretical propositions to redefine the field of urban political studies.

Extending the view of urban politics beyond municipal and metropolitan institutions to the broader political process in cities, this book will be invaluable to advanced students and scholars interested in our urban future. For, as Boudreau convincingly suggests, global urban life is political life.

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About the Author

Julie-Anne Boudreau is Associate Professor in the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre at the National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS), Montreal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745685498
• ISBN 13: 9780745685496
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248