Unlocking the mind-trap: Politicising urban theory and practice

Erik Swyngedouw

Urban Studies, 2017, vol. 54, issue 1, 55-61

Abstract: This contribution offers a critical engagement with the Critical Commentary paper of Beveridge and Koch (2017) entitled ‘The postpolitical trap? Reflections on politics, agency and the city’. I argue that post-politicisation as a particular form of de-politicisation does not imply the disappearance of politics. On the contrary, it involves the re-ordering of the modalities of politics (contentious or otherwise) and of the possibilities of the political with far-reaching consequences for the modalities of egalitarian and emancipatory urban change. I explore the key contours of the post-politicisation argument and develop the thesis that ‘the political’ can never be foreclosed fully.

Keywords: political theory; post-foundational thought; postpolitical; urban politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098016671475

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