Warren Magnusson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3780440 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Warren Magnusson |
| PRENOMES | Warren |
| SOBRENOME | Magnusson |
| ASSINATURA | MAGNUSSON W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Victoria |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 119 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Seeing the city and democracy
When the idea of democracy went through its revival in the early modern period, it was eventually attached to the ideal of the state – a legal order that restrained popular enthusiasm and that could exist on any scale. The common assumption was that any viable political order had to be on a relatively large scale if it was to persist in the face of external challenges and deal effectively with modern problems. The implication was that it had to t…
David Spaner, Solidarity
From the spectacular to the mundane
Radical democracy is usually fleeting. What are the possibilities for institutionalising it? If we want to understand them, we have to look carefully at the institutions and practices of local government and distance ourselves from the ideal of the nation-state, focusing instead on the possibilities of the open city. In that context, this article refers back to the work of Hannah Arendt and Robert Dahl, considering it in light of more recent cont…
Bringing Politics Back In
Journal Article Bringing Politics Back In Get access Warren Magnusson Warren Magnusson University of Victoria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2015, Pages 91–93, https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12079 Published: 11 March 2015
Critical Urban Theory versus Critical Urban Studies
Critical urban theory and critical urban studies form the subject of two recent edited collections on approaches to the analysis and transformation of the contemporary capitalist city. In an exchange of commentaries by the respective editors and contributors, the introduction explains the genesis of each book and previews some of the key observations. Peter Marcuse then offers his assessment of Critical Urban Studies: New Directions , which is re…
The Symbiosis of the Urban and the Political
Historically, the urban was the condition of possibility for the political, but the symbiosis of the two has been concealed by the rise of the state and the concomitant development of the social sciences. The effort to recover the connection by denoting a separate domain of 'urban politics' is self-defeating, because it re-instantiates an ontology of the political that consigns the urban to the domain of 'low' politics. The dominant ontology sugg…
Politics of urbanism
Municipal Reform in Canada
Municipal Reform in Canada: Reconfiguration, Re-Empowerment, and Rebalancing, Joseph Garcea and Edward C. LeSage, Jr., eds., Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. ix, 350.This book will be an essential reference for students of local government in Canada. It deals with the most recent period of municipal reform, from 1990 onwards. There are chapters on each of the ten provinces, plus a combined chapter on the northern territories. The edito…
Brave New Neighborhoods
Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space. By Margaret Kohn. New York: Routledge, 2004. 256p. $85.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. In her first book, Radical Space: Building the House of the People (2003), Margaret Kohn analyzed the spatiality of early working-class activism in Italy and developed a sophisticated argument about the conditions for democratic empowerment. In this book, she shifts her attention to the United States. Aside fr…
Urbanism, cities and local self-government
This article explores the relationship between urbanism, cities and local self-government to identify some key issues for contemporary public administration. State-centric political theory marginalizes urban analysis, but the latter enables us to see the world in a different way. Understanding ourselves as urban is to see that conventional political categories seriously misrepresent the conditions of our lives. Various thinkers like Ash Amin and …
Are Municipalities Creatures of the Provinces
This article challenges the standard idea that municipalities are creatures of the provinces, and suggests instead that they embody one of the major principles of a free and democratic society, the right of local self-government. Municipalities are political authorities of a different sort, which may coexist with the state but are not strictly part of it. Local self-government is a practice rooted in everyday life, and there is more to it than ju…
Protecting the Right of Local Self-Government
Many people in Canada are frightened by the right of local self-government, because they are afraid of the privatization of public authority. This article suggests that municipalities can be otherwise conceived, and that a right of local self-government can be vindicated without impairing the capacity of the state or encouraging a debilitating privatism. The key is to understand that municipalities can be non-exclusive public authorities, on a di…
Challenging Politics
A political space
Social Movements and the Global City
In transition
Ce compte‐rendu de la campagne pour la préservation de l'une des grandes institutions féministes à Vancouver est centré sur la relation entre l'État et les mouvements sociaux. Loin de se limiter au simple récit des événements présentés comme une lutte entre les féministes et l'État, il met au jour les complexités d'un mouvement dont les ramifications s'étendent à l'État, à la société civile et à d'autres mouvements sociaux. L'image centrale du ch…
Socialism and Monotheism
We wrote our paper as a plea to the Canadian Left to question its assumptions about the nature of politics. What we said was provocative, but by no means sectarian. Indeed, what seems to have annoyed some people is that we refused to exempt anyone from the need for rethinking. Our theoretical strategy was to underline both the bourgeois and the theological origins of common political assumptions. We were hoping to encourage intellectuals on the L…
Community Organization and the Canadian State
Economic Crisis, Trade Unions and the State
De-Centring the State
It is over ten years since The Canadian State appeared. That book marked the coming of age of a new generation of Canadian political economists. It also focussed attention on a renewed intellectual vitality among Canadian socialists. Its authors had been born too late to have been scarred by Stalinism, but they had their own debacle to contend with: the collapse of the New Left as a political force. The New Left had arisen in response to Stalinis…
Solidarity
Local and Urban Politics in CanadaDonald J. H. Higgins Toronto
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Bourgeois Theories of Local Government
This paper offers an historical analysis of the principles of local government organization that have been accepted in Britain and the United States. The central thesis is that these principles express an ‘economist’ conception of politics and the state. Local governments have been variously conceived—as business corporations, consumers' cooperatives, and institutions of the state—but in each case they have been assigned a restricted, essentially…
The New Reality
Urban Politics and the Local State
The last decade or so has been marked by belated emergence of a Marxist theory of urban. This is a remarkable development, for until recently, use of the urban as an analytic category was widely regarded as a sign of intellectual or political underdevelopment
Municipal Reform in Canada
Municipal Reform in Canada: Reconfiguration, Re-Empowerment, and Rebalancing, Joseph Garcea and Edward C. LeSage, Jr., eds., Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. ix, 350.This book will be an essential reference for students of local government in Canada. It deals with the most recent period of municipal reform, from 1990 onwards. There are chapters on each of the ten provinces, plus a combined chapter on the northern territories. The edito…
De-Centring the State
It is over ten years since The Canadian State appeared. That book marked the coming of age of a new generation of Canadian political economists. It also focussed attention on a renewed intellectual vitality among Canadian socialists. Its authors had been born too late to have been scarred by Stalinism, but they had their own debacle to contend with: the collapse of the New Left as a political force. The New Left had arisen in response to Stalinis…
The Symbiosis of the Urban and the Political
Historically, the urban was the condition of possibility for the political, but the symbiosis of the two has been concealed by the rise of the state and the concomitant development of the social sciences. The effort to recover the connection by denoting a separate domain of 'urban politics' is self-defeating, because it re-instantiates an ontology of the political that consigns the urban to the domain of 'low' politics. The dominant ontology sugg…
Metropolitan Reform in the Capitalist City
Les récentes analyses néo-marxistes suggèrent que la réforme métropolitaine traditionnelle—soit la consolidation territoriale de l'autorité locale—peut être vue comme line réponse capitaliste aux contradictions du développement urbain dans les sociétés capitalistes avancées. Cette interprétation s'accompagne de nombreuses difficultés qui sont considérées dans cet article.La réforme métropolitaine peut être seulement comprise historiquement comme …
Bourgeois Theories of Local Government
This paper offers an historical analysis of the principles of local government organization that have been accepted in Britain and the United States. The central thesis is that these principles express an ‘economist’ conception of politics and the state. Local governments have been variously conceived—as business corporations, consumers' cooperatives, and institutions of the state—but in each case they have been assigned a restricted, essentially…
The New Reality
Urbanism, cities and local self-government
This article explores the relationship between urbanism, cities and local self-government to identify some key issues for contemporary public administration. State-centric political theory marginalizes urban analysis, but the latter enables us to see the world in a different way. Understanding ourselves as urban is to see that conventional political categories seriously misrepresent the conditions of our lives. Various thinkers like Ash Amin and …
Are Municipalities Creatures of the Provinces
This article challenges the standard idea that municipalities are creatures of the provinces, and suggests instead that they embody one of the major principles of a free and democratic society, the right of local self-government. Municipalities are political authorities of a different sort, which may coexist with the state but are not strictly part of it. Local self-government is a practice rooted in everyday life, and there is more to it than ju…
Urban Politics and the Local State
The last decade or so has been marked by belated emergence of a Marxist theory of urban. This is a remarkable development, for until recently, use of the urban as an analytic category was widely regarded as a sign of intellectual or political underdevelopment
The local state in Canada
Studies of government at the local level tend to be focused on the municipalities. To understand the full range of institutions at this level, a broader conception of the “local state” is required. The latter refers to the state in so far as it is present in and concerned with the local community, and thus it encompasses local agencies of the central state as well as local governments. To conceive of the local state in this way allows for a criti…
Protecting the Right of Local Self-Government
Many people in Canada are frightened by the right of local self-government, because they are afraid of the privatization of public authority. This article suggests that municipalities can be otherwise conceived, and that a right of local self-government can be vindicated without impairing the capacity of the state or encouraging a debilitating privatism. The key is to understand that municipalities can be non-exclusive public authorities, on a di…
Challenging Politics
Social Movements and the Global City
Community Organization and the Canadian State
City Politics in Canada
Socialism and Monotheism
We wrote our paper as a plea to the Canadian Left to question its assumptions about the nature of politics. What we said was provocative, but by no means sectarian. Indeed, what seems to have annoyed some people is that we refused to exempt anyone from the need for rethinking. Our theoretical strategy was to underline both the bourgeois and the theological origins of common political assumptions. We were hoping to encourage intellectuals on the L…
Solidarity
Metropolitan Reform in the Capitalist City
Les récentes analyses néo-marxistes suggèrent que la réforme métropolitaine traditionnelle—soit la consolidation territoriale de l'autorité locale—peut être vue comme line réponse capitaliste aux contradictions du développement urbain dans les sociétés capitalistes avancées. Cette interprétation s'accompagne de nombreuses difficultés qui sont considérées dans cet article.La réforme métropolitaine peut être seulement comprise historiquement comme …
City Politics in Canada
Urban Politics and the Local State
The last decade or so has been marked by belated emergence of a Marxist theory of urban. This is a remarkable development, for until recently, use of the urban as an analytic category was widely regarded as a sign of intellectual or political underdevelopment
The local state in Canada
Studies of government at the local level tend to be focused on the municipalities. To understand the full range of institutions at this level, a broader conception of the “local state” is required. The latter refers to the state in so far as it is present in and concerned with the local community, and thus it encompasses local agencies of the central state as well as local governments. To conceive of the local state in this way allows for a criti…
Bourgeois Theories of Local Government
This paper offers an historical analysis of the principles of local government organization that have been accepted in Britain and the United States. The central thesis is that these principles express an ‘economist’ conception of politics and the state. Local governments have been variously conceived—as business corporations, consumers' cooperatives, and institutions of the state—but in each case they have been assigned a restricted, essentially…
The New Reality
Local and Urban Politics in CanadaDonald J. H. Higgins Toronto
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
De-Centring the State
It is over ten years since The Canadian State appeared. That book marked the coming of age of a new generation of Canadian political economists. It also focussed attention on a renewed intellectual vitality among Canadian socialists. Its authors had been born too late to have been scarred by Stalinism, but they had their own debacle to contend with: the collapse of the New Left as a political force. The New Left had arisen in response to Stalinis…
Solidarity
Economic Crisis, Trade Unions and the State
Socialism and Monotheism
We wrote our paper as a plea to the Canadian Left to question its assumptions about the nature of politics. What we said was provocative, but by no means sectarian. Indeed, what seems to have annoyed some people is that we refused to exempt anyone from the need for rethinking. Our theoretical strategy was to underline both the bourgeois and the theological origins of common political assumptions. We were hoping to encourage intellectuals on the L…
Community Organization and the Canadian State
In transition
Ce compte‐rendu de la campagne pour la préservation de l'une des grandes institutions féministes à Vancouver est centré sur la relation entre l'État et les mouvements sociaux. Loin de se limiter au simple récit des événements présentés comme une lutte entre les féministes et l'État, il met au jour les complexités d'un mouvement dont les ramifications s'étendent à l'État, à la société civile et à d'autres mouvements sociaux. L'image centrale du ch…
Social Movements and the Global City
A political space
Challenging Politics
Brave New Neighborhoods
Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space. By Margaret Kohn. New York: Routledge, 2004. 256p. $85.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. In her first book, Radical Space: Building the House of the People (2003), Margaret Kohn analyzed the spatiality of early working-class activism in Italy and developed a sophisticated argument about the conditions for democratic empowerment. In this book, she shifts her attention to the United States. Aside fr…
Urbanism, cities and local self-government
This article explores the relationship between urbanism, cities and local self-government to identify some key issues for contemporary public administration. State-centric political theory marginalizes urban analysis, but the latter enables us to see the world in a different way. Understanding ourselves as urban is to see that conventional political categories seriously misrepresent the conditions of our lives. Various thinkers like Ash Amin and …
Are Municipalities Creatures of the Provinces
This article challenges the standard idea that municipalities are creatures of the provinces, and suggests instead that they embody one of the major principles of a free and democratic society, the right of local self-government. Municipalities are political authorities of a different sort, which may coexist with the state but are not strictly part of it. Local self-government is a practice rooted in everyday life, and there is more to it than ju…
Protecting the Right of Local Self-Government
Many people in Canada are frightened by the right of local self-government, because they are afraid of the privatization of public authority. This article suggests that municipalities can be otherwise conceived, and that a right of local self-government can be vindicated without impairing the capacity of the state or encouraging a debilitating privatism. The key is to understand that municipalities can be non-exclusive public authorities, on a di…
Municipal Reform in Canada
Municipal Reform in Canada: Reconfiguration, Re-Empowerment, and Rebalancing, Joseph Garcea and Edward C. LeSage, Jr., eds., Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. ix, 350.This book will be an essential reference for students of local government in Canada. It deals with the most recent period of municipal reform, from 1990 onwards. There are chapters on each of the ten provinces, plus a combined chapter on the northern territories. The edito…
Politics of urbanism
Critical Urban Theory versus Critical Urban Studies
Critical urban theory and critical urban studies form the subject of two recent edited collections on approaches to the analysis and transformation of the contemporary capitalist city. In an exchange of commentaries by the respective editors and contributors, the introduction explains the genesis of each book and previews some of the key observations. Peter Marcuse then offers his assessment of Critical Urban Studies: New Directions , which is re…
The Symbiosis of the Urban and the Political
Historically, the urban was the condition of possibility for the political, but the symbiosis of the two has been concealed by the rise of the state and the concomitant development of the social sciences. The effort to recover the connection by denoting a separate domain of 'urban politics' is self-defeating, because it re-instantiates an ontology of the political that consigns the urban to the domain of 'low' politics. The dominant ontology sugg…
Bringing Politics Back In
Journal Article Bringing Politics Back In Get access Warren Magnusson Warren Magnusson University of Victoria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Political Sociology, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2015, Pages 91–93, https://doi.org/10.1111/ips.12079 Published: 11 March 2015
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