The Promise of the CitySpace, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought
Space, Identity, and Politics in Contemporary Social Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23558220 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kian Tajbakhsh (0000-0001-6629-2702) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Pages | 229 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | The promise of the city (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/california/9780520222779.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4239894213 |
| ISBN | 9780520222779 |
| Open Library | OL16996107M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, the book offers a threefold, interdisciplinary approach linking agency, space, and structure. First, it says, urban identities cannot be understood through individualistic, communitarian, or class perspectives but rather through the shifting spectrum of cultural, political, and economic influences. Second, the layered, unfinished city spaces we inhabit and within which we create meaning are best represented not by the image of bounded physical spaces but rather by overlapping and shifting boundaries. And third, the macro forces shaping urban society include bureaucratic and governmental interventions not captured by a purely economic paradigm. The book examines these dimensions in the work of three major critical urban theorists of recent decades: Manuel Castells, David Harvey, and Ira Katznelson. It shows why the answers offered by Marxian urban theory to the questions of identity, space, and structure are unsatisfactory and why the perspectives of other intellectual traditions such as post-structuralism, feminism, Habermasian Critical Theory, and pragmatism can help us better understand the challenges facing contemporary cities.
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Critical theory · Epistemology · Identity (music) · Individualism · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Urban theory · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation · Marxian school of sociology · Social Science · Sociologie marxiste · Sociologie urbaine · Sociology - Urban · Urban · Urban Sociology
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |