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Julie-Anne Boudreau - Global Urban Politics - 9780745685496 - V9780745685496
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Global Urban Politics

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Description for Global Urban Politics Hardcover. In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions. Series: Urban Futures. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFSG; JPB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 426.

Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State

In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics to transnational governing institutions.

Organized thematically, the book examines urban social movements, diversity politics, environmental politics and security politics at a global level and argues that living in an urban world calls for a profound rethinking of how we act politically. Through ethnographic incursions into the worlds of youth activists, domestic workers, rioters, barrio bandits and peripheral villagers, among others, from Mexico ... Read more

Extending the view of urban politics beyond municipal and metropolitan institutions to the broader political process in cities, this book will be invaluable to advanced students and scholars interested in our urban future. For, as Boudreau convincingly suggests, global urban life is political life.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Urban Futures
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745685496
SKU
V9780745685496
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99-11

About Julie-Anne Boudreau
Julie-Anne Boudreau is Associate Professor in the Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre at the National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS), Montreal.

Reviews for Global Urban Politics
"This is a major book: one that is set to change the field in important ways. It is brief, challenging, informative, and accessible. There is hardly anyone who has the breadth of knowledge and experience that Julie-Anne Boudreau has, and few indeed who can bring such acute analytical insights to the work at hand. This book is a very important ... Read more

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