About the Author
Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at Manchester University and the author of Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain (MIT Press).
Works by Erik Swyngedouw
Liquid Power: Contested Hydro-Modernities in Twentieth-Century Spain (Urban and Industrial Environments) (2015) 8 copies
Promises of the Political: Insurgent Cities in a Post-Political Environment (The MIT Press) (2018) 3 copies
Social Power and the Urbanization of Water: Flows of Power (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series) (2004) 2 copies
La naturaleza no existe 2 copies
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Designing the post-political city and the insurgent… by Erik Swyngedouw
Good article about urban land use policies as reflections of a "post-political" logic of consensus technocratic governance that radically rejects that which does not adapt to its pluralist model--examples in this context including the vicious discourse around native land claims, the one-sided discourse around gentrification in places like Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and the othering of neighbourhood residents being forced out, and the reclaimation of working-class industrial areas as lesure spaces catering to the urban professional. This city fucking blows so much of the time.… (more)
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