Dados Bibliográficos

AUTOR(ES) O. Verkaaik , Thomas Blom Hansen
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) Amsterdam UMC - University of Amsterdam
ANO 2009
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Critique of Anthropology
ISSN 0308-275X
E-ISSN 1460-3721
EDITORA Annual Reviews (United States)
DOI 10.1177/0308275x08101029
CITAÇÕES 35
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-18
MD5 832cb49ccfcb1cd1a2546382a46d8297

Resumo

Cities are charismatic entities. Both in and of themselves by virtue of their history and their mythologies, but also as sites where charismatic figures emerge on the basis of their capacity to interpret, manage and master the opacity of the city. The specificity of the urban can neither be understood through the city's functions nor the dynamics of its social networks. The urban is also a way of being in the world and must be understood as a dense and complex cultural repertoire of imagination, fear and desire. We propose to understand the urban and its charismatic potential through three registers: the sensory regimes of the city; the specific forms of urban knowledge and intelligibility; and the specific forms of power, connectivity and possibility which we call urban infra-power.

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