Dark side of the planet: hidden dimensions of urban agglomeration |
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Authors: | Brian Jordan Jefferson |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Geography and Geographic InfoSci, Urbana, IL, USAbjjeffer@illinois.edu |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis intervention probes the hidden, political dimensions of planetary urbanization. Drawing on political theory, it approaches its analysis through the analytic of ‘the political,’ the dimension in which antagonism performs a constitutive function in the social order. In doing so the intervention throws into relief the ways in which group-based differentiation, conflict, and exclusion establish the conditions of possibility for ongoing transformations of urban agglomeration. It then develops a case for further exploring intersections of the political and capitalist agglomeration to generate new knowledge about current mutations in urban economies of space. |
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Keywords: | Planetary urbanization political theory urban theory political geography social difference |
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