Invisible cities: A phenomenology of globalization from below

Eduardo Mendieta

City, 2001, vol. 5, issue 1, 7-26

Abstract: That the city consumes its hinterland, its outlying areas of supply and its cultures and people seems, at best, an overstatement. And yet it is a formulation that Eduardo Mendieta arrives at as a result of a philosophical and ethical examination of a wide range of contemporary studies of urbanization and globalization. Mendieta's analysis begins with a critique of aspects of Saskia Sassen's important work on the territorial bases of globalization. To this he adds two further dimensions: a phenomenological reading that is slanted towards the viewpoint of the oppressed, and a theological reading of cultural and religious phenemona and meanings(s). His approach involves a search for "the invisible cities with the cities that are visible in most urban theory and analysis". What is also involved from an ethical and practical viewpoint is not so much the inclusion of the excluded within the visible city as the dismantling and reconstruction of that city in the interests of the excluded.

Date: 2001
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