The smile of the Cheshire Cat and the city

Juval Portugali

Chapter 14 in The Second Urban Revolution, 2025, pp 348-356 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter concludes the book with quotations from two books by Lewis Carroll: “the smile of the cheshire cat” from Alice in Wonderland, and the conversation between Alice and the White Queen in Through the Looking Glass – both help to convey the notions of chronesthesia and MTT and further explore the implications of a generative order and, consequently, the relationship between nationalism as a generative order and urbanism as a generative order. It presents similarities and differences between the two orders in the way things manifest in general, particularly in the Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian reality at the beginning of the 21st century. Finally, the chapter closes with a question: do the events in the first quarter of the 21st century “mark the end of the urban revolution and the return of nationalism? … a slight fluctuation in the longue durée history of nationalism as the generative order of society? Or is it the other way round, and the events at the end of the second decade and the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century are slight fluctuations – final protests of nationalism … in the process of the rise of urbanism and its transformation into the generative social order?”

Keywords: Implicate relations; Generative order; Nationalism; Urbanism; Chronesthesia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035350117
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