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City & Society Forum: “Insurgent Citizens and the Spectral Return of the Political in the Post-Democratic City: Urban anthropologists engage the work of Erik Swyngedouw” Micaela di Leonardo Northwestern University I thank Erik Swyngedouw for his adumbration of the global urban neoliberal post-political moment and its depressing, enervating, and sometimes exhilarating sequelae. I would like to call attention to an under-attended American phenomenon that not only escapes that overarching world of consensus, depoliticization, and the technocratic discourse and practice that has led to a widespread sense of the impossibility of change and/or a rightist trending populism, in both the United States and Europe—but has practiced that escape for the last twenty-four years. This is not an “embryonic form of radical politicization,” but rather an ongoing, under-noticed one. In Swyngedouw’s locution, it is a “way of organizing the urban commons.” But it is not, unlike his examples, the least bit new. In so doing, I am also stressing the necessity of escaping what I have labelled the “Harvey Effect:” David Harvey, despite his immense contributions to our understanding of global political economy, fails to recognize that the historical processes of racialization and gender/sexual relations are intimately part of capitalist histories,
City & Society – Wiley
Published: Jan 1, 2018
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